The Great Royalton Illinois Mine Disaster Of Oct. 27 (1912)
Also known as In the Land of Darkness
1912 · Silent film · 9 min · dir. Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
- Short
- Drama
Synopsis
In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic locations, and although he updated the story to the present, he went to great lengths to recreate in the studio the detail of the actual mining galleries, exploiting the ability of film to be a recorder of contemporary reality.
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Details
- Director
- Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
- Writer
- Émile Zola
- Studio
- Société Française des Films Éclair
- Released
- 1912-01-12
- Original title
- Au pays des ténèbres
- Running time
- 9 minutes
Cast & crew
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset Director- Charles Krauss
- André Liabel
Marcel Vibert
