La Vie et la Passion de Jésus-Christ (1898)

Directed by

Georges Hatot, Louis Lumière

Genre

silent film

Country

France

Runtime

11 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows a sequence of scenes from the life of Jesus Christ. Each scene was originally a separate short film by the Lumière company.

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What happens

La Vie et la Passion de Jésus-Christ is a French silent religious drama film released in 1898 and produced by the Lumière company. Directed by Georges Hatot in collaboration with Louis Lumière, the film presents a series of tableaux illustrating episodes from the life of Jesus Christ. Each scene was originally issued as a separate short film in the Lumière catalogue, numbered 933–945. The film is one of the earliest known cinematic representations of the Passion narrative and predates the more widely known Pathé production of the same title from 1903. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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