''Continente Perduto'' (a.k.a. ''Lost Continent'' and ''Continent Perdu'') is a 1955

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Awards

It has received the following awards: * 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize *

5th Berlin International Film Festival The 5th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1955. This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-St ...

: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)

Legacy

French literary critic

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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

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traditions of the region.Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.

References

External links

* *Der verlorene Kontinent (Film) - German wikipedia

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