Lost Continent (1955 film) explained

Lost Continent
Director:	Enrico Gras Giorgio Moser Leonardo Bonzi
Music:	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Distributor:	Lopert Pictures (US theatrical)
Runtime:	120 minutes
Country:	Italy
Language:	Italian

Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

Awards

It has received the following awards:

• 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize^{[1] [2]}
• 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)^[3]

Legacy

French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, Mythologies. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.^[4]

External links

• • Der verlorene Kontinent (Film) - German wikipedia version

Notes and References

1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Lost Continent . 2009-01-31. festival-cannes.com.
2. Web site: BFI: Lost Continent . 2009-01-31 . BFI . https://web.archive.org/web/20090114213820/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/60942 . 2009-01-14 . dead .
3. Web site: 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners . 2009-12-24 . berlinale.de.
4. Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.