One of the first epic films made in Austria, as in some of the similar Cecil B De Mille entries, a fusion of a biblical story with a modern update..


The moment the curtains parted in Vienna’s Burgkino during the winter of 1922, audiences inhaled a hallucination: a Nazirite strongman whose hair spilled like molten bronze, a seductress whose cigarette embers punctured the gloom, and collapsing marble that felt less like Sunday-school spectacle than like the very ps...

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

Alexander Korda

Alexander Korda
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" The moment the curtains parted in Vienna’s Burgkino during the winter of 1922, audiences inhaled a hallucination: a Nazirite strongman whose hair spilled like molten bronze, a seductress whose cigarette embers punctured the gloom, and collapsing marble that felt less like Sunday-school spectacle than like the very psyche of a defeated empire imploding. Alexander Korda’s Samson und Delila is not so much a biblical pageant as it is a brittle fin-de-siècle fever dream wearing scripture like borro..."

María Corda
Ernest Vajda, Alexander Korda
Austria

