Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain (2022)

January 21st, 20220h 53min

Documentary, History, TV Movie
71%

Overview

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.


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