Italy / 1912 / Fiction / 8’29”
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How to have a happy life by bumbling your suicide or the improbable destiny of Polidor. Threatened by unremitting creditors, Polidor, ruined and driven to despair looks for an effective way to end his life. This is a huge undertaking as even the elements are hostile and neither the gun nor the rope will do. It’s better for Polidor to climb to higher ground; jumping into emptiness should get the better of his miserable life. In this short Italian film, Ferdinand Guillaume takes on the character of Polidor, an essential figure of burlesque cinema from 1910 onwards.
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Ferdinand Guillaume