The Secret of Delft (1916)

Original title

Het Geheim van den Vuurtoren

Directed by

Maurits Binger

Genre

silent film, crime film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent crime film set in the Netherlands. It involves a ruined lighthouse and a pier constructed as key locations for the story. The film follows a mystery centered around these structures.

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What happens

The Secret of Delft (Dutch: Het geheim van den vuurtoren) is a 1916 Dutch black and white silent crime film directed by Maurits Binger. The movie was also sold to France, where it was titled Le Secret du Phare. Only fragments of the original movie survived and are being kept in the Dutch Cinema Museum (Nederlands Filmuseum). It is hoped a complete copy survived in France. The movie was an ambitious, large-scale project because it required the construction of a 20 metre high ruined lighthouse, and a 15 metre long pier of the coast of Zandvoort. These constructions meant high production costs, totaling a rumoured 50.000 to 70.000 gulden. The movie also starred the most famous actors in the Netherlands at that time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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