Mathusalem
MovieTitle | Mathusalem |
User score | 4.6 |
Release date | Nov 6, 1927 |
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Director | Jean Painlevé |
Production country | France |
Run time | 9 min. |
Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five sequences-- some of Jean Painlevé's earliest film work-- projected against a backdrop of white clouds.