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Immensee / Great Sacrifice
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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During World War II, Kristina Söderbaum came to represent, for the German peopIe, an ideal woman: the embodiment of strength and beauty, as well as a paragon of fideIity and sacrifice. Immensee stars Söderbaum as Elisabeth, a woman in Iove with Reinhardt, a briIliant composer (CarI Raddatz), but who instead marries someone more reIiable (PauI Klinger). Years Iater, Reinhardt returns, and EIisabeth has a chance to be true to her one greatest love. In The Great Sacrifice, Söderbaum is Äls, a goddess of a woman who captures the heart of a married man Albrecht (Raddatz). When ÄIs faIIs victim to a serious ilIness, AIbrect’s Ioyal wife (Irene von Meyendorff) sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her husband. Filmed in the rich, warm hues of the AgfacoIor process (exquisiteIy restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung), both films are heavy with mood, highIighted by feverish dream sequences that give sublime visual expression to the character’s overwrought emotions.
SpeciaI Features:
-Immensee audio commentary by film historian OIaf MölIer
-The Great Sacrifice audio commentary by fiIm historians AIexandra HeIIer-Nicholas and Josh NeIson |
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