Lost Continent (1955 film)

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

Lost Continent
Directed by	Enrico Gras Giorgio Moser Leonardo Bonzi
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Distributed by	Lopert Pictures (US theatrical)
Release dates	1955 (1955) (Italy) 11 March 1957 (1957-03-11) (New York City)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Awards

It has received the following awards:

• 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize^[1][2]
• 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)^[3]

Legacy

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.^[4]