La hantise
1912 French film
- October 1912 (1912-10)
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La hantise (English: The Obsession) is a 1912 short silent film directed by Louis Feuillade and is the earliest surviving film about the RMS Titanic. The film stars Renée Carl and René Navarre. The film focuses on a woman who is told by a palm reader that one of her loved ones will die. The woman then tries to convince her husband not to board the RMS Titanic, as she fears for his safety. The husband boards nonetheless, though is recused on the RMS Carpathia after Titanic sinks. The film is said to confront the fraud of palm reading, highlighting the suffering that obsessive belief in the supernatural can create.[1]
Cast
- Renée Carl as Madame Trévoux
- René Navarre as Jean Trévoux
- Miss Édith as The Palmist
- Henri Jullien as Madame Trévoux' Godfather
- Maurice Mathieu as Little Georges
See also
- List of films about the RMS Titanic
References
- ^ "The Obsession". Fandor. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014.
External links
- La hantise at IMDb
- La hantise at the TCM Movie Database
- The short film La hantise is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
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