Professor Carlsen is an advocate of marriage, but neglects his wife completely. She leaves him and lives in a free love relationship with her second husband.
A matrimonial sermon gone rogue Das Recht der freien Liebe arrives like a sulphur flash in 1919, the year Germany’s empire collapsed and everything that once felt sacred wobbled on its pedestal. Harry Harland’s script, laconic yet venomous, hands us Professor Carlsen—a man who treats marriage the way an entomologist ...
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" A matrimonial sermon gone rogue Das Recht der freien Liebe arrives like a sulphur flash in 1919, the year Germany’s empire collapsed and everything that once felt sacred wobbled on its pedestal. Harry Harland’s script, laconic yet venomous, hands us Professor Carlsen—a man who treats marriage the way an entomologist treats a pinned butterfly: admirable under glass, lifeless under touch. Fritz Achterberg plays him with the brittle rectitude of a Sunday pamphlet, eyes forever fixed on the horizo..."
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