Mr Bernhard has financial difficulties. He has fallen into the hands of broker Mr Pouzer.
Ester Julin, Alexander Vichetos, Mauritz Stiller
Sweden
Mauritz Stiller’s Dolken arrives like a half-remembered fever dream scraped from the gutters of 1920 Stockholm, a film whose very title—“The Bribe”—feels less transactional than anatomical: it dislocates the ribs of morality to expose the quivering heart beneath. From the first intertitle, letters quiver like frostb...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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" Mauritz Stiller’s Dolken arrives like a half-remembered fever dream scraped from the gutters of 1920 Stockholm, a film whose very title—“The Bribe”—feels less transactional than anatomical: it dislocates the ribs of morality to expose the quivering heart beneath. From the first intertitle, letters quiver like frostbitten fingers, warning that “debt is a shadow that grows teeth.” That shadow gnaws immediately at Bernhard (Bertil Junggren), a once-prosperous importer now reduced to counting mat..."
