Directed by Eric Lange. With Serge Bromberg, Costa-Gavras, Batrice de Pastre, Michel Gondry. Son of a shoe manufacturer, Georges Mlis decided to devote himself to magic. In 1888, he used his share of the inheritance to buy the Robert-Houdin Theater, Boulevard des Italiens, where his fairy-tale shows drew crowds. Seven years later, dazzled by the animated image of the Lumire brothers, he launches into a new art form, cinema. His thirst for enchantment led him to invent special effects…