La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ Life and Passion of the Christ (1903)

Vie et Passion du Christ (Life and Passion of the Christ) is a 44minute French silent film that was produced and released in 1903. As such, it is one of the earliest featurelength narrative films. The film, with sequences made in the stencil color process Pathéchrome, takes a straightforward approach to its subject matter. All scenes are introduced by an intertitle giving the traditional name of the event (the Annunciation, the Nativity, etc. ) followed by the actors playing out the familiar stories fro