The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge (1925)

Director
René Clair

Main cast
Albert Préjean; Sandra Milovanoff; Paul Ollivier; Madeleine Rodrigue; Georges Vaultier

Genres
Fantasy, Drama

Description
A young man, unsuccessful in love, manages to leave his body and tours Paris, disembodied and invisible, playing practical jokes: a row of coats walks off from a hotel cloakroom; an unattended taxi drives itself away; a row of top hats appears on the pavement.


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