Son of a shoe manufacturer, Georges M�li�s decided to devote himself to magic. In 1888, he used his share of the inheritance to buy the Robert-Houdin Theater, Boulevard des Italiens, where his fairy-tale shows drew crowds. Seven years later, dazzled by the animated image of the Lumi�re brothers, he launches into a new art form, cinema. His thirst for enchantment led him to invent special effects. But the evolution of the public�s taste and the passage of the cinema to the industrial era put away his dream machine. Forgotten, he ends up running a toy store in the Montparnasse train station. In 1923, in a fit of despair, he destroyed the negatives of his films. Since then, film buffs all over the world have found and restored reels.

Starring:

Michel Gondry, Costa-Gavras, Serge Bromberg, B�atrice de Pastre

Genre:

Documentary, Biography