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'A Nightmare' (French: 'Le cauchemar') is a short silent trick film created and released in 1896 and directed by Georges Mlis. It was released by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 82 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a 'scne fantastique'. The film was shot outside in the garden of Mlis's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, with painted scenery. Mlis plays the sleeping man.

Synopsis



A man attempting tosses and turns in his sleep, has a nightmare. He is visited by various visions which transform into each other, including a girl clad only in a sheet, a minstrel wearing blackface, Pierrot, and the Man in the Moon, who gnaws on his arm. He wakes up tangled in his sheets. He is relieved that it was all just a dream.

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