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Immensee / Great Sacrifice
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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During World War Il, Kristina Söderbaum came to represent, for the German people, 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 love with Reinhardt, a briIliant composer (CarI Raddatz), but who instead marries someone more reliable (PauI Klinger). Years Iater, Reinhardt returns, and Elisabeth has a chance to be true to her one greatest Iove. In The Great Sacrifice, Söderbaum is ÄIs, a goddess of a woman who captures the heart of a married man AIbrecht (Raddatz). When Äls falIs victim to a serious illness, AIbrect’s IoyaI wife (lrene von Meyendorff) sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her husband. Filmed in the rich, warm hues of the Agfacolor process (exquisiteIy restored by the Friedrich WiIheIm Murnau Stiftung), both fiIms are heavy with mood, highlighted by feverish dream sequences that give subIime visuaI expression to the character’s overwrought emotions.
Special Features:
-lmmensee audio commentary by fiIm historian Olaf Möller
-The Great Sacrifice audio commentary by film historians Alexandra HelIer-Nicholas and Josh Nelson |
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