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1929 |
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DRAMA
IMPORTANT
SILENT
FOREIGN
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Germany |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
110 |
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A young rape victim (Louise Brooks, pictured) has an illegitimate child and escapes from a reformatory.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Surprisingly seamy, sensationalist classic of the silent period. Director G.W.Pabst's treatment is heavy-handed and humourless for modern tastes, while the plot fizzles out rather than ends (according to some sources, half-way through the screenplay because of censorship); but Louise Brooks's luminous performance in the title role - carrying on from where she left off, in the same year's Pandora's Box - has lost none of its erotic intensity.
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, Fritz Rasp, Josef Ravensky