Bout de Zan et l'embusqué (1915)

Original title

Bout-de-Zan et l'embusqué

Directed by

Louis Feuillade

Genre

silent film, comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

8 min

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy named Bout de Zan gets into mischief involving a man avoiding military service in World War I France. The short silent film follows the boy's antics as he confronts the shirker.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalcomedicenergeticold-fashionedslapsticksimplistic

What happens

Bout de Zan et l'embusqué (Bout de Zan and the Shirker) is a 1915 short silent film by Louis Feuillade. Louis Feuillade directed between 1912 and 1916 about sixty short films with Bout de Zan, a little boy played by René Poyen, as a recurring hero. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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