Tartuffe
A playful silent-era comedy that uses a film-within-a-film device to expose hypocrisy and fraud, blending theatrical satire with early cinema's visual wit.
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
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