Lost Continent (1955 film)

Lost Continent
Lost Continent
Directed by	Enrico Gras; Giorgio Moser; Leonardo Bonzi
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Distributed by	Lopert Pictures (US theatrical)
Release dates	1955 (Italy); 11 March 1957 (New York City);
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

Awards[edit]

It has received the following awards:

1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize^[1]^[2]
5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)^[3]

Legacy[edit]

French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, Mythologies. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.^[4]

References[edit]

^ "Festival de Cannes: Lost Continent". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
^ "BFI: Lost Continent". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
^ "5th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
^ Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.

External links[edit]

Lost Continent at IMDb
Der verlorene Kontinent (Film) - German wikipedia version

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[festival-cannes.com-1] "Festival de Cannes: Lost Continent". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-31.

[BFI-2] "BFI: Lost Continent". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2009-01-31.

[Berlinale_1955-3] "5th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-24.

[4] Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.

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