Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology

September. 12,2024

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Surrealism Mondo Mondo Film

Trailer Synopsis Cast

To mark the 30th anniversary of L'Étrange Festival, Gaumont is opening up its archives to offer the best of its most secret, bizarre and crazy images, digitized for the first time. A unique program featuring black magic, surrealistic happenings, world records, the evolution of feminism, wild bets, vanished places, forgotten inventions and other delights.

Salvador Dalí as Self

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