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Tue-la-mort (1920)

Tue-la-mort poster
Directed by
Édouard-Émile Violet, René Navarre
Genre
silent film
Country
France
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a French silent film serial told in twelve episodes. It follows one continuing story that unfolds week by week in theaters and in a newspaper.

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What happens

Tue la mort est un film muet français en douze épisodes de 1920, produit, interprété et réalisé par René Navarre en collaboration avec Édouard-Émile Violet. Conçu comme un ciné-roman, un nouvel épisode est projeté chaque semaine au cinéma, tandis que l’écrivain Gaston Leroux publie en parallèle quotidiennement le feuilleton dans le journal Le Matin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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