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Lully ou le Violon brisé
FRANCE · 1908

Lully ou le Violon brisé

Georges Méliès
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Synopsis

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hopefully one day a complete print will turn up but until then at least we have this. The film starts off in some sort of bakery as the boss starts giving orders and then a bit later we see a young man pull out a violin he has been hiding and start to p

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