With the Passion Play released by Siegmund Lubin in 1903, the first dramatic feature-length movies, although some film historians disqualify them because each was released in multiple parts.
Selected by the Vatican in the "religion" category of its list of 45 "great films."
Ferdinand Zecca started the film but following a disagreement with Charles Pathé he left Pathé for Gaumont and Lucien Nonguet took over the shooting.
Pathe's famous rooster logo can be spotted in almost every scene.