One of three foreign language versions of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: a princess in the court of the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain..
If you have some free time today and you don’t mind reading subtitles (or you happen to speak German), Olympia is actually worth a look. It’s for people who like those old-fashioned stories where everyone lives in a palace but they’re all secretly miserable. If you hate slow movies where people just talk in rooms for e...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"If you have some free time today and you don’t mind reading subtitles (or you happen to speak German), Olympia is actually worth a look. It’s for people who like those old-fashioned stories where everyone lives in a palace but they’re all secretly miserable. If you hate slow movies where people just talk in rooms for eighty minutes, you’re probably gonna want to skip this one. 🏰 This movie is a weird piece of history because it’s a "multiple-language version." Back when sound first started, th..."
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Heinrich Fraenkel, Ferenc Molnár, Leo Birinsky, Yves Mirande
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