''Les Miracles du Brahmine'', sold in the United States as ''The Miracles of Brahmin'' and in Britain as ''The Miracles of the Brahmin'', is a 1900 French silent trick film by

Georges Méliès Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of ...

. It was sold by Méliès's

Star Film Company The Manufacture de films pour cinématographes, often known as Star Film, was a French film production company run by the illusionist and film director Georges Méliès. History On 28 December 1895, Méliès attended the celebrated first publi ...

and is numbered 237–240 in its catalogues. The film is derived from a magic act Méliès created and performed at his Paris stage venue, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Méliès appears in the film as the brahmin of the title; according to film historian Georges Sadoul, Jeanne Mareyla plays the woman in the center of the group of three. A print of the film survives, and was shown at the film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in 2020.

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* French black-and-white films Films directed by Georges Méliès French silent short films 1900s French films Trick films 1900s rediscovered films Rediscovered French films {{1900s-France-film-stub