
In Paris in the 1880s, the beautiful opera singer, Christine, is captured and held against her will by the infamous "phantom of the opera"..

Greta Schröder, Gaston Leroux
Germany

The first time the chandelier crashes in Das Phantom der Oper, you do not hear it—you feel it like a vertebra of light snapping inside the spine of cinema itself. Released in th...
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