


Richard Oswald’s Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore slithered into cinemas during the summer of 1922, a moment when Europe still reeked of cordite and orgiastic desperation. Viennese authorities banned it within a fortnight, ensuring every alley projector from Budapest to Barcelona lusted for the forbidden reels. Vi...

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" Richard Oswald’s Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore slithered into cinemas during the summer of 1922, a moment when Europe still reeked of cordite and orgiastic desperation. Viennese authorities banned it within a fortnight, ensuring every alley projector from Budapest to Barcelona lusted for the forbidden reels. Viewed today, the film remains a bruise-toned jewel: part morality play, part velvet-gloved slap, part epidemiological fever chart of a continent coupling itself into oblivion. It is..."
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