''Continente Perduto'' (a.k.a. ''Lost Continent'' and ''Continent Perdu'') is a 1955
Italian
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documentary film
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about
Maritime Southeast Asia
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including
Borneo
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.
Awards
It has received the following awards:
*
1955 Cannes Film Festival:
Special Jury Prize
*
5th Berlin International Film Festival
The 5th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1955. This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-St ...
: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)
Legacy
French literary critic
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...
dedicates an essay to the film in his
semiological work,
''Mythologies''. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of
exoticism, while also imposing their own
Christian values onto the
Buddhist
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traditions of the region.
[Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.]
References
External links
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*Der verlorene Kontinent (Film) - German wikipedia
version
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Music
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* Dub version
* Remix
* ''Ve ...
1955 films
CinemaScope films
1950s Italian-language films
Italian documentary films
Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
1955 documentary films
1950s Italian films
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