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Lost Continent (1955 film)

Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

Awards

It has received the following awards:

Legacy

French literary critic Roland Barthes 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 traditions of the region.

References

External links

  • Der verlorene Kontinent (Film) - German wikipedia