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La Leçon du gouffre (1913)

La Leçon du gouffre poster
Directed by
Ferdinand Zecca
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
France
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French silent short film follows a man who learns a hard lesson about greed and its consequences. The story delivers a moral warning through a straightforward dramatic situation.

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What happens

La Leçon du gouffre est un film français muet de court métrage réalisé par Ferdinand Zecca et René Leprince, sorti en 1913. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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