Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

Release date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 7
Genres: Documentary, History, TV Movie
The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.
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