Silent films fest to screen Gaumont's ‘Vampires'


To commemorate 120th anniversary of the world's first and still-surviving film company, Gaumont, the series "Vampires," which was restored on the 100th anniversary, will be screened as a part of the second International Istanbul Silent Cinema Days running from Dec. 3-6. All 10 episodes of the series will be screened at the French Cultural Center for the first time in Turkey. The detective series, which was shot by Louis Feuillade between 1915 and 1916, focuses on criminal "Vampires," which infiltrated French bourgeois society, and a journalist who is onto this "terrorist" group during the heated years of the World War I. When: Dec. 3 at 2:00 p.m. Where: French Cultural Center