The Infidel Mountain (1923)
La montagne infidèle
On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard were crossing Italy to meet and film up close the monster that had provoked The filmmaker turned that meeting into this documentary in two parts and 24 minutes, commissioned and produced by Pathé-Consortium-Cinema.
- Date of release
- 1923-10-22
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 24m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jean Epstein
Interesting facts
La Montagne infidèle is a 1923 French silent film directed by Jean Epstein. It is a documentary film about the 1923 volcanic eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily.
Production
On 16 June 1923 in Sicily, two craters of Mount Etna erupted. Pathé Newsreels decided to send a team to film the event. Under exclusive contract since January, Jean Epstein was chosen to travel to Sicily with a small crew (Paul Guichard, cameraman, and Léon Donnot, assistant), camera equipment, and unexposed film.
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