LES VAMPIRES (1915–1916)==sepiaa nd tinted

LES VAMPIRES (1915–1916)

Les Vampires is a 1915–1916 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. Set in Paris, it stars Édouard Mathé, Musidora and Marcel Lévesque. The main characters are a journalist and his friend who become involved in trying to uncover and stop a bizarre underground Apaches criminal gang, known as the Vampires (who are not the mythical beings their name might suggest). The serial consists of ten episodes, which vary greatly in length. Being roughly 7 hours long, it is considered one of the longest films ever made. It was produced and distributed by Feuillade's company Gaumont. Due to its stylistic similarities with Feuillade's other crime serials Fantômas and Judex, the three are often considered a trilogy.
Cast
Newspaper:
Édouard Mathé as Philippe Guérande, a newspaper reporter, investigating the Vampires
Stacia Napierkowska as Marfa Koutiloff, a dancer and early love interest for Philippe
Delphine Renot [fr] as Madame Guérande, Philippe's mother
Louise Lagrange as Jane Bremontier, Philippe's fiancée, and later, wife
Jeanne Marie-Laurent as Madame Brémontier, Jane's mother
Marcel Lévesque as Oscar-Cloud Mazamette, Guérande's friend and coworker, who is initially working undercover for the Vampires
Gaston Michel as Benjamin, Mazamette's servant
René Poyen [fr] as Eustache, Mazamette's son
Germaine Rouer as Augustine Charlet, widow of a Vampire victim and eventual fiancée of Mazamette
Vampires
Jean Aymé [fr] as the First Grand Vampire, a master of disguise
Musidora as Irma Vep, collaborator with several Vampire leaders
Suzanne Le Bret [fr] as Hortense, Irma Vep's servant
Louis Leubas [fr] as Father Silence, a deaf mute working for the Vampires; and as Satanas, the Second Grand Vampire
Edmond Bréon as Satanas's servant
Maurice Boyer [fr] aka Moriss as Venomous, the Third Grand Vampire, a chemist genius
Miss Édith [fr] as Countess de Kerlor, a Vampire
Georgette Faraboni [fr] as the Vampire Dancer
Rivals
Fernand Herrmann as Juan-José Moréno (and Brichonnet), head of a ring of crooks, and rival to the Vampires
Suzanne Delvé as Lily Flower (in the French intertitles as Fleur-de-Lys), an accomplice of Moréno
Others
Rita Herlor [fr] as Mrs. Simpson, an American multimillionairess
Émile Keppens [fr] as George Baldwin, an American millionaire
Renée Carl as the Andalusian
Maurice Luguet [fr] as De Villemant
Paula Maxa [fr] as Laure
Laurent Morléas as Grand Army Officer
Théodore Thalès [fr] as the Magistrate
Jacques Feyder as a party guest
Françoise Rosay as a party guest
Fridolin
Jean-François Martial