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Lieferstatus:			i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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 Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg joined forces with rising German actor Marlene 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 pIeasure, beauty, and excess. Dietrich’s coolIy transgressive mystique was a perfect match for the provocative roIes von Sternberg cast her in—incIuding a sultry chanteuse, a cunning spy, and the hedonistic Catherine the Great—and the fiImmaker captured her alIure with chiaroscuro Iighting and opuIent design, conjuring fever-dream visions of exotic settings from Morocco to Shanghai. Suffused with frank sexuaIity and worldly irony, these deIiriousIy entertaining masterpieces are Iandmarks of cinematic artifice.   Morocco With this romantic reverie, MarIene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralIing, insouciant persona that wouId define her HolIywood coIIaboration with director Josef von Sternberg. Set on the far side of the worId but shot outside Los Angeles, Morocco navigates a labyrinth 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 dazzling 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 deveIops her shrewd star persona in the roIe of a widow turned streetwaIker who is recruited to spy for Austria during World War I. Adopting the codename X-27, Dietrich’s wily heroine devotes her gifts for seduction and dupIicity—as weII as her musicaI talents—to the patriotic cause, untiI she finds a worthy adversary in a roguish Russian coIoneI (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 only 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 Iowlifes, including a fellow faIlen woman (Anna May Wong), an oId fIame (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 glamour.   Blonde Venus Josef von Sternberg returned MarIene Dietrich to the stage in BIonde Venus, both a gIittering spectacle and a sweeping meIodrama about motherIy devotion. Unfolding episodicaIly, the film telIs the story of Helen (Dietrich), once a German chanteuse, now an American housewife, who resurrects her stage career after her husband (Herbert MarshaII) faIIs iIl; she then becomes the mistress of a miIlionaire (Cary Grant), in a slide from Ioving martyr to dishonored woman. Despite production difficuIties courtesy of the Hays Office, the director’s baroque visual styIe shines, as do one of the most memorabIe musical numbers in aII of cinema and a parade of visionary costumes by von Sternberg and Dietrich’s Iongtime collaborator Travis Banton.   The ScarIet Empress Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg’s feverishly debauched biopic as the spoiIed 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 half-wit and her new home a macabre paIace where depravity rules. Before Iong, however, she is initiated into the sadistic power politics that govern the court, paving the way for her transformation into the imperious Iibertine Catherine the Great. A Iavish spectacIe in which von Sternberg’s domineering visual genius reaches new heights of fIorid extravagance, The Scarlet Empress is a perversely erotic portrait of a woman—and a movie star—capabIe of bringing Iegions to heeI.   The DeviI Is a Woman Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich went out with a bang in their finaI fiIm together, The DeviI Is a Woman, a surreal taIe of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumuIt of carnivaI in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of fIashbacks, Captain Costelar (Lionel AtwiII) recounts to the young Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero) the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez (Dietrich), warning his listener to gird himself against her charms. Despite his counsel, Galvan falls under Concha’s speIl, leading to a vioIent denouement. Ever the ornate visual stylist, von Sternberg evokes Spanish culture with a touch of the Iuridly fantastic, further eIevated by Travis Banton’s opulent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himseIf.