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La Bâillonnée (1922)

La Bâillonnée poster
Genre
silent film
Country
France

How it feels

This is a series of seven short French silent films from 1922. Each episode continues a melodramatic story adapted from a 1904 novel, involving hate, impossible love, and drama at sea.

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What happens

La Bâillonnée est une série de sept courts métrages français réalisés par Charles Burguet et sortis en 1922. Les épisodes, adaptés d'un roman de Pierre Decourcelle et Paul Rouget paru en 1904, sont intitulés Entre deux haines, La Nuit douloureuse, Les Sans pitié, Le Guet-apens, L'Impossible amour, Un drame en mer et Le Droit de la mer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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