Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1902)

Directed by

Ferdinand Zecca

Genre

silent film, adventure film

Country

France

Runtime

9 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a very early silent film adaptation of the classic folk tale. It tells the story of Ali Baba who discovers a cave full of treasure belonging to a band of forty thieves.

whimsicaltheatricalpioneeringearly-cinemalightstraightforwardhistorical-interestsimple

What happens

Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (English: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the eponymous folk tale added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the first cinematographic adaptation of this tale. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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