From the Gothic villain to the fantastic king

From the Gothic villain to the fantastic king of 12 images Fantomas at cinema 110 years ago, on May 9, 1913, there was the first movie about Fantomas — the character who has been thought up by the French writers by Pierre Souvestre and Allan Marcelle. Since then the ingenious criminal hiding a face behind a mask of, appeared on screens of ten times, and its image evolved from the gloomy villain of an era of silent cinema in the parody bandit from detectives and adventure comedies. As what Fantomas appeared at the audience — in a photo gallery newspaper "Kommersant". "Fantomas: in a guillotine shadow", 1913 the French black-and-white criminal drama on...