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Les Quat’ cents Farces du diable poster
FRANCE · 1906

Les Quat’ cents Farces du diable

Georges Méliès
European Art Cinema supernatural devil torment magical journey hell
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Synopsis

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.

Year1906
CountryFrance
DirectorGeorges Méliès
MovementEuropean Art Cinema
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