Simultaneously filmed French version of the German "Der Moerder Dimitri Karamassof": A son is accused of killing his father, whose young mistress he has also loved. Condemned for ten years, he is accompanied by the woman.
Is it worth the time? If you have a weekend to kill and a high tolerance for 1930s melodrama that refuses to smile, sure. It is a slow burn that demands you pay attention to the facial expressions rather than the plot, which moves like molasses in winter. If you want something snappy like The Hayseeds Come to Sydney, y...
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Fyodor Otsep
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"Is it worth the time? If you have a weekend to kill and a high tolerance for 1930s melodrama that refuses to smile, sure. It is a slow burn that demands you pay attention to the facial expressions rather than the plot, which moves like molasses in winter. If you want something snappy like The Hayseeds Come to Sydney, you will hate this. It is heavy, it is dark, and it is obsessed with its own misery. The whole thing feels like it was filmed in a basement that had just enough light to catch the ..."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonhard Frank, Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, Fyodor Otsep, Victor Trivas
France
1932 · IMDb 6.3
