An unhappy woodcutter is temped by the devil with riches and honors. They visit seven castles, as the man acquires the Seven Capital Sins these castles represent. Pioneering trick effects include multiple exposures and dissolves in this early féerie.
Visual Effects
Double exposures that invented movie magic.
Direction
Zecca cramming seven sins into eleven minutes.
Director
Ferdinand Zecca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zecca shot this for Pathé when the studio was basically a shed; the 'castles' were painted flats shoved together in a Paris courtyard.
This directly rips off Méliès' style but adds narrative coherence — the Edison of France stealing from the magician of France.
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