Doctor Willy Prager's long, selfless office hours come at the expense of his attention-seeking fiancée. During a garden party, Willy is summoned to an ill child's bedside and leaves his fiancée Erna in the hands of his faithful friend Alfred.
Bertel Krause
Denmark
In the flickering twilight of 1912 Copenhagen, when cinema was still a trembling newborn, A Fatal Lie arrives like a bruised love letter sealed with gunpowder. Director Bertel Krause—more known for literary adaptations than for psychological duels—opts here for a chamber piece: three aristocratic chess pieces, one ga...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
August Blom
August Blom
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" In the flickering twilight of 1912 Copenhagen, when cinema was still a trembling newborn, A Fatal Lie arrives like a bruised love letter sealed with gunpowder. Director Bertel Krause—more known for literary adaptations than for psychological duels—opts here for a chamber piece: three aristocratic chess pieces, one garden soirée, and a lie so petite it could hide behind a fan yet so lethal it demands a duel at sunrise. The first thing that strikes the modern eye is the film’s refusal to telegr..."
