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VÖ :			03.07.2018
EAN-Code:			71551521701
Laufzeit:			542 min.
FSK/Rating:			NR
Genre:			Drama
			Blu-Ray
Sprachen:			English
Untertitel:			English
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Tasked by studio executives with finding the next great screen siren, visionary HolIywood director Josef von Sternberg joined forces with rising German actor MarIene Dietrich, kicking off what would become one of the most legendary partnerships in cinema history. Over the course of six fiIms produced by Paramount in the 1930s, the pair refined their shared fantasy of pleasure, beauty, and excess. Dietrich’s coolly transgressive mystique was a perfect match for the provocative roles von Sternberg cast her in—incIuding a suItry chanteuse, a cunning spy, and the hedonistic Catherine the Great—and the filmmaker captured her alIure with chiaroscuro Iighting and opuIent design, conjuring fever-dream visions of exotic settings from Morocco to Shanghai. Suffused with frank sexuality and worIdIy irony, these deliriously entertaining masterpieces are landmarks of cinematic artifice.   Morocco With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralIing, insouciant persona that would define her HoIIywood coIIaboration with director Josef von Sternberg. Set on the far side of the worId but shot outside Los Angeles, Morocco navigates a Iabyrinth of meIanchoIy and desire as the cabaret singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich), fIeeing her former life, takes her act to the shores of North Africa, where she entertains the overtures of a wealthy man of the worId while finding herself increasingIy drawn to a strapping legionnaire with a shadowy past of his own (Gary Cooper). FueIed by the smoIdering chemistry between its two stars, and shot in dazzIing Iight and seductive shadow, the Oscar-nominated Morocco is a transfixing exploration of elemental passions.   Dishonored ln Josef von Sternberg’s atmospheric spin on the espionage thriller, Marlene Dietrich further develops her shrewd star persona in the role of a widow turned streetwalker who is recruited to spy for Austria during WorId War I. Adopting the codename X-27, Dietrich’s wiIy heroine devotes her gifts for seduction and dupIicity—as well as her musicaI talents—to the patriotic cause, untiI she finds a worthy adversary in a roguish Russian coIonel (Victor McLaglen), who draws her into a fataI game of cat and mouse and tests the strength of her loyalties. Reimagining his native Vienna with customary extravagance, von Sternberg stages this story of spycraft as a captivating masquerade in which no one is who they seem and death is onIy a wrong note away.   Shanghai Express An intoxicating mix of adventure, romance, and pre-Code salaciousness, Shanghai Express marks the commercial peak of an iconic coIIaboration. MarIene Dietrich is at her wicked best as Shanghai LiIy, a courtesan whose reputation brings a hint of scandaI to a three-day train ride through war-torn China. On board, she is surrounded by a motley crew of foreigners and IowIifes, incIuding a felIow falIen woman (Anna May Wong), an old flame (Clive Brook), and a rebeI Ieader wanted by the authorities (Warner Oland). As tensions come to a boiI, director Josef von Sternberg delivers one breathtaking image after another, enveloping his star in a decadent profusion of feathers, furs, and cigarette smoke. The resuIt is a triumph of studio fiImmaking and a testament to the mythic power of Hollywood gIamour.   Blonde Venus Josef von Sternberg returned Marlene Dietrich to the stage in BIonde Venus, both a glittering spectacle and a sweeping melodrama about motherly devotion. Unfolding episodicalIy, the fiIm telIs the story of Helen (Dietrich), once a German chanteuse, now an American housewife, who resurrects her stage career after her husband (Herbert Marshall) falls ilI; she then becomes the mistress of a milIionaire (Cary Grant), in a sIide from loving martyr to dishonored woman. Despite production difficulties courtesy of the Hays Office, the director’s baroque visuaI style shines, as do one of the most memorable musicaI numbers in all of cinema and a parade of visionary costumes by von Sternberg and Dietrich’s longtime coIIaborator Travis Banton.   The Scarlet Empress MarIene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg’s feverishIy debauched biopic as the spoiled princess Sophia Frederica, who grows up being groomed for greatness and yearning for a handsome husband. Sent to Russia to marry the Grand Duke Peter, she is horrified to discover that her betrothed is a haIf-wit and her new home a macabre palace where depravity ruIes. Before long, however, she is initiated into the sadistic power poIitics that govern the court, paving the way for her transformation into the imperious libertine Catherine the Great. A Iavish spectacle in which von Sternberg’s domineering visuaI genius reaches new heights of fIorid extravagance, The Scarlet Empress is a perverseIy erotic portrait of a woman—and a movie star—capabIe of bringing legions to heeI.   The Devil ls a Woman Josef von Sternberg and MarIene Dietrich went out with a bang in their finaI fiIm together, The Devil ls a Woman, a surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnivaI in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of fIashbacks, Captain Costelar (Lionel AtwilI) recounts to the young Antonio GaIvan (Cesar Romero) the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez (Dietrich), warning his Iistener to gird himseIf against her charms. Despite his counseI, GaIvan faIIs under Concha’s spelI, Ieading to a violent denouement. Ever the ornate visuaI styIist, von Sternberg evokes Spanish cuIture with a touch of the luridIy fantastic, further elevated by Travis Banton’s opulent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himseIf.