
Is it worth your time? If you have a high tolerance for old-school, theatrical melodrama, maybe. If you want a punchy, fast-paced adventure, you will be bored to tears within twenty minutes. This is for people who like to see how cinema looked before it really knew what it wanted to be. G.W. Pabst was doing three vers...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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"Is it worth your time? If you have a high tolerance for old-school, theatrical melodrama, maybe. If you want a punchy, fast-paced adventure, you will be bored to tears within twenty minutes. This is for people who like to see how cinema looked before it really knew what it wanted to be. G.W. Pabst was doing three versions of this at once. English, French, German. Imagine the headache. Maybe that’s why the French version feels a bit like a fever dream that didn't quite wake up. Feodor Chaliapin ..."

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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Alexandre Arnoux, Paul Morand, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
France

