The Surrender of Tournavos

director: Georges Méliès

original title: La prise de Tournavos

country: France

year: 1897

running time: 1 min.

synopsis

This is one of four films devoted to the Greek-Turkish war in 1897. The surrender itself took place in April. These reconstructed newsreels are undoubtedly a completely unique approach by a French director to the meaning of the term documentary. Based on available news reports, he attempts to provide a visual representation of events for a number of well-known occurrences without actually needing to provide additional factual information about them and relying solely on the audience's interest.

biography

Georges Méliès (1861-1938) is one of the first independent film directors whose work crystalised the early film genres. He worked on fantasy scenes, adaptations of literary works, fairy tales, as well as socio-critical and political films. His documentary filmmaking is less well known, as a lot of it has not been preserved.

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director:

Georges Méliès

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