L'Enfant prodigue (1907 film)

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| name = L'Enfant prodigue

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| director = Michel Carré

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| writer = Michel Carré

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| starring = Georges Wague
Henri Gouget

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| distributor = Pathé Frères

| released = {{Film date|1907|06|20|France|1907|10|12|U.S.|df=y}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = France

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L'Enfant prodigue ({{IPA|fr|lɑ̃.fɑ̃ pʁɔ.diɡ}}, French for "The Prodigal Son") was the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, running 90 minutes. Directed by Michel Carré, from his three-act stage pantomime, The Prodigal Son. The film was an unmodified filmed record of his play. Filmed at the Gaumont Film Company studios in May 1907.

The film premiered at the Théâtre des Variétés on the Boulevard Montmartre, in Paris, on 20 June 1907.Patrick Robertson, Film Facts, Watson-Guptill, 2001, p. 9. {{ISBN|978-0-8230-7943-8}}.

Carré directed another film version of L'Enfant prodigue in 1916.

File:Georges Wague as Pere Pierrot in 1907 film of L'Enfant prodigue-001.jpg

Cast (in credits order)

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