Ecstasy (Ekstase) (1933)

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Directed by

Gustav Machatý

Starring

Hedy Lamarr
Eva Hermann

Zvonimir Rogoz
Emile

Jirina Stepnicková
Eva (voice)

André Nox
Le père

Comedian Harmonists
Themselves

Written by

Gustav Machatý
screenplay

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Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Release date: 20 January 1933
UPC: 014381144420

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Films Condemned by the Legion of Decency (75 movies items)

"Hedy Lamarr as a runaway child bride. Graphic for the time, including nudity and depictions of sexual intercourse and orgasm. "

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"11.12.2020, YLE Areena Aikaansa nähden erittäin kunnioitettavan rohkea teos on kuitenkin niin läpeensä tahmaisessa melodraamaliemessä uitettu, että vain reippaan tunnin mittaisesta kestostaan huolimatta elokuva tuntuu välillä laahaavan aivan hämmentävän tarmokkaasti paikallaan. Propsit kuitenkin siitä, että naisen seksuaalisuutta ei suinkaan käsitellä pelkästään lipputuloja nostavasta eksploitatiivisesta näkökulmasta, vaan ihan oikealla ymmärryksellä ja jopa kunnioituksell"

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Mustanaamio7's Movie Diary 2020 (149 movies items)

"9.12. 2020 "Ecstasy" by Gustav Machatý is a revolutionary melodrama that wasn't afraid to break boundaries. Machatý's rich and expressive style makes it truly powerful and memorable experience. Especially great thing about the film is that it is pure cinema, and by this I mean that there's nothing theatrical about it. It also doesn't look like a filmed book. The story is certainly classical story about tragic love but Machatý's methods make it shine in an inimitable way."

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"Kuva naisen halusta on muutakin kuin historiallinen kuriositeetti. Komeat kuvasommitelmat ja kamera-ajot pitivät katsojan mielen virkeänä klassisen melodraaman ollessa mitä on. p.s Kohtaukset, joissa ei varsinaisesti näytetä mitään eroottista, ovat pakahtua seksuaalisesti ladattuun kuvastoonsa. Trooppinen, hikinen seksi on kaikkialla muualla läsnä, jokapäiväisissä esineissä, kuvien rytmissä, paitsi kohtauksessa, jossa Hedy Lamarr juoksentelee nakupellenä metikössä, missä o"