Word: titan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Titan. An exciting documentary which recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo without a glimpse of human actors (TIME...
...Titan. An exciting documentary that recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo without a glimpse of human actors (TIME...
...Titan (The Michelangelo Company) is an extraordinary documentary that recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo without showing a glimpse of a human actor. The film is at once an exciting tribute to the art of the Florentine master and an impressive tour de force in the art of the cinema...
Filmed mostly in Rome and Florence in 1938-40 by Swiss Producer Curt Oertel, the original version of The Titan was snapped up by German companies and palmed off as a product of Nazi Kultur. After the U.S. Army discovered the film in France, a copy found its way to Manhattan and caught the paternal eye of Robert J. Flaherty, whose classic Nanook of the North (1922) made him the granddaddy of documentary movies. Flaherty set out to get the picture's U.S. rights...