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The Impossible Voyage is a french film of genre Science fiction directed by Georges Méliès with Georges Méliès

The Impossible Voyage (1904)

The Impossible Voyage
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Length 24minutes
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OriginFrance
Genres Science fiction,    Comedy,    Fantasy,    Adventure
Rating74% 3.7408653.7408653.7408653.7408653.740865

The Impossible Voyage (French: Voyage à travers l'impossible, advertised as an Invraisemblable équipée d'un groupe de savants de la Société de Géographie incohérente; pièce fantastique nouvelle en 40 tableaux), originally released in the US as An Impossible Voyage and in the UK as Whirling the Worlds, is a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 641–659 in its catalogues, with an optional supplementary section numbered 660–661. Based in part on Jules Verne's play Journey Through the Impossible and modeled in style and format on Méliès's earlier, highly successful A Trip to the Moon, the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographers attempt a journey into the interior of the sun.

Synopsis

Since the film is silent and has no intertitles, the proper names and quotations below are taken from the English-language description of the film published by Méliès in the catalog of the Star Film Company's New York Branch.

Actors

Georges Méliès

(Mabouloff)Fernande Albany

(Madame Latrouille, one of the travelers)Jehanne d'Alcy

(Villager at Seaport (uncredited))
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