Le Fils de Locuste

Name: Le Fils de Locuste
Director: Louis Feuillade
Released: 1911
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Yvette Andréyor, Renée Carl, Luitz-Morat, Georges Wague

1911 15 minutes Directed by Louis Feuillade

About Le Fils de Locuste

In Rome, Locusta, poisoner to the emperor Nero, prepares a fatal drink. Her son drinks it without knowing what it is.

Cast & crew

More about Le Fils de Locuste

Louis Feuillade wrote and directed it for Gaumont. Albert Sorgius was the cameraman. It opened in France on March 10, 1911, and runs 15 minutes. Yvette Andréyor, Renée Carl, Luitz-Morat, and Georges Wague are billed. The title means Locusta's son.

Themes

A drink mixed for someone else
A son who takes the cup
Locusta
Nero
poison
Rome
Gaumont

Background

The short uses Locusta, the poisoner named in accounts of Nero's Rome, as the mother who mixes the drink.

Look

Albert Sorgius is credited as cameraman.

Preservation

A print is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Locusta is the historical poisoner attached to Nero's court. The film uses that name for the mother.
The Cinémathèque Française film file lists Feuillade as both director and scenarist and Sorgius as cameraman.
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.