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The Titan: Story of Michelangelo is a 1950 German documentary film about the painter and sculptor Michelangelo. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1]

The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Directed by	Richard Lyford
Written by	Norman Borisoff
Produced by	Ralph Alswang Robert J. Flaherty Robert Snyder
Narrated by	Fredric March
Cinematography	Harry Ringger
Edited by	Richard Lyford
Distributed by	Classic Pictures
Release date	1950 (1950)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	English

The film was a re-edited version of a German/Swiss film of 1938 originally titled Michelangelo: Life of a Titan, directed by Curt Oertel. The re-edited version featured a new English narration by Fredric March and a musical score onto a shorter edit of the existing film. The new credits include Richard Lyford as director and Robert Snyder as producer. The film was edited by Lyford. The Academy Film Archive preserved The Titan in 2005.[2]

Cast

• Fredric March as Himself/Narrator

References

External links

• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo at IMDb
• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo at Masters & Masterworks Productions, founded by Robert Snyder

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