Empire allemand / Union soviétique,
1929, 82 min
Réalisation:
Fedor OzepMusique:
Werner Schmidt-BoelckeActeurs·trices:
Vsevolod Poudovkine, Maria Jacobini, Julia Serda, Gustav Diessl, Vladimir Uralskiy, Борис Барнет, Porfiriy Podobed, Carola Höhn, Sylvia Torf (plus)Résumés(1)
A man, his wife, her lover – divorce is out of the question. There is only one way out: the agony of a feigned death. Fyodor Otsep's film version of Leo Tolstoy's play is a classic example of the "East-meets-West" perspective adopted by the Mezhrabpom-Film studio and its German producer, Prometheus. This classical melodrama about a divorce that is prevented by both the church and the state is interwoven with avant-garde montages to create a social critique of pre-revolutionary Russia. (Berlinale)
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