Lost Continent (1954 film)

Lost Continent
Directed by	Enrico Gras Giorgio Moser Leonardo Bonzi
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Distributed by	Lopert Pictures (US theatrical)
Release date	1955 (Italy) 11 March 1957 (NYC)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

It has received the following awards:

French literary critic Roland Barthes 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 Buddhist traditions of the region.

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