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Lost Continent (1954 film)

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Awards
  
Cannes Jury Prize

Country
  
Italy

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IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Duration
  

Language
  
Italian

Lost Continent (1954 film) movie poster

Director
  
Enrico Gras Giorgio Moser Leonardo Bonzi

Release date
  
1954 (Italy) 11 March 1957 (NYC)

Writer
  
Mario Craveri (screenplay), Ennio Flaiano (subject & scenario), Enrico Gras (screenplay), Giorgio Moser (subject & scenario), Orio Vergani (commentary)

Directors
  
Leonardo Bonzi, Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser

Music director
  
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Similar movies
  
Giorgio Moser directed Lost Continent and wrote the screenplay for The Pirates of Capri

Mst3k lost continent full movie with annotations


Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

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Awards

It has received the following awards:

  • 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize
  • 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)

    • Legacy

    French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, Mythologies. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.

    References

    Lost Continent (1954 film) Wikipedia
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    Lost Continent (1954 film) IMDb Lost Continent (1954 film) themoviedb.org