The Seashell and the Clergyman
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This experimental French film shows both surrealist and expressionist traits, and helped to lay the foundations for what would become French Surrealism in film. It is about a priest who has hallucinations due to his extreme lust of a woman. I have included five existing soundtracks and a subtitle track, though the only title card is at the very start of the film.
Why this is free to watch
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Germaine Dulac
- Starring
- Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
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