L'île de Pâques 1935

L'île de Pâques

HD 0 23 minutes
The first Easter Island documentary, filmed in 1935 when the Belgian naval ship Mercator came to collect Drs. Henri Lavacherry and Alfred Métraux, who had arrived six months before to carry out archaeological and ethnological work. The film, directed with melodramatic gusto and featuring a full orchestral score by Maurice Jaubert (who also did the narration), shows islanders, the monuments, and a public dance. A theme of decay and decadence characterizes the film, the motif portrayed gruesomely by extensive close-ups of the inhabitants of the leper colony there at the time. The film suited a romantic image of a mysterious lost civilization, the survivors eking out a pitiful existence on a barren rock. (Grant McCall)

Movie Similars

HD

Reminiscencia

2017 Movie
HD

Larisa

1980 Movie
HD

Quarantine

2021 Movie
HD

Black Sun

2019 Movie
HD

Edith+Eddie

2017 Movie
HD

Quest for the Ring

2001 Movie
HD

Afrocentricity

2000 Movie
HD

Visions of Europe

2004 Movie
HD

Chris on Chris

2002 Movie
HD

Jungle Bound

1934 Movie
HD

Twenty Years After

1944 Movie

Movie Recommendations