An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Musidora | ... | Irma Vep | |
| Édouard Mathé | ... | Philippe Guérande | |
| Marcel Lévesque | ... | Oscar Mazamette | |
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Jean Aymé | ... | Le Grand Vampire |
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Fernand Herrmann | ... | Juan-José Moréno / Brichonnet |
| Stacia Napierkowska | ... | Marfa Koutiloff (episode II) | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Renée Carl | ... | L'Andalouse | |
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Suzanne Delvé | ... | Fleur-de-Lys |
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Georgette Faraboni | ... | Danseuse vampire |
| Jacques Feyder | ... | (episode V: L'évasion du mort) | |
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Fridolin | ||
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Rita Herlor | ... | Mrs. Simpson (episode I) |
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Émile Keppens | ... | Géo Baldwin |
| Louise Lagrange | ... | Jeanne Guérande | |
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Suzanne Le Bret | ... | Hortense - servante d'Irma |
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An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
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23 November 1916 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The same furniture appears in the different houses throughout the film. See more »Quotes
newspaper article: The Vampire Gang is Not Dead. Satanas poisoned himself in his cell. Who provided the poison?See more »
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A ten-part serial that took eight hours to watch with breaks, this thing defies not just summary but reliable recall: describing it is like trying to describe a year in my life. Chaotic, unpredictable, upside down, with endless sneaky tricks that defy our conception of 'movie' magic because they mainly involve Cirque-type human machines doing things that couldn't have been faked so convincingly at this date. I mean, you can see the splice whenever a character turns on the light, so when the bitchy criminal mastermind Irma Vep gets wrapped up in rope, then rolls down the side of a four-story building like a human yo-yo, you know you're watching history in the making. What's more, and redemptively, the stupid detectives are REALLY stupid, including this outrageous Italian stereotype who keeps nyuk-ing straight into the camera. There's a wild chase-fight scene on a moving train, a gas attack on a large high-society do, a kid accidentally shooting his father in the nose, and God knows what else. This dumbfoundingly imaginative, yet consistently goofy and crowd-pleasing movie could only have happened in a medium whose limits had not yet been properly defined - in fact you can see the definition happening on screen. When I grow up I want to be Henri Langlois, founder of the Cinematheque Francais, who rescued the world's only print of this film from the curb on garbage day. Hooray!