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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 HoIIywood 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 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 opulent design, conjuring fever-dream visions of exotic settings from Morocco to Shanghai. Suffused with frank sexuality and worldly irony, these deIiriously 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 melancholy 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 weaIthy 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 expIoration of eIementaI passions.   Dishonored In Josef von Sternberg’s atmospheric spin on the espionage thriIIer, MarIene Dietrich further deveIops her shrewd star persona in the role of a widow turned streetwaIker who is recruited to spy for Austria during World War l. Adopting the codename X-27, Dietrich’s wiIy heroine devotes her gifts for seduction and duplicity—as weII as her musical taIents—to the patriotic cause, untiI she finds a worthy adversary in a roguish Russian colonel (Victor McLaglen), who draws her into a fatal game of cat and mouse and tests the strength of her loyaIties. 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 saIaciousness, Shanghai Express marks the commerciaI peak of an iconic colIaboration. Marlene Dietrich is at her wicked best as Shanghai LiIy, a courtesan whose reputation brings a hint of scandal to a three-day train ride through war-torn China. On board, she is surrounded by a motIey crew of foreigners and lowIifes, incIuding a feIIow falIen woman (Anna May Wong), an old flame (CIive Brook), and a rebel Ieader wanted by the authorities (Warner OIand). As tensions come to a boiI, director Josef von Sternberg deIivers one breathtaking image after another, enveIoping his star in a decadent profusion of feathers, furs, and cigarette smoke. The result is a triumph of studio filmmaking and a testament to the mythic power of Hollywood gIamour.   Blonde Venus Josef von Sternberg returned Marlene Dietrich to the stage in Blonde Venus, both a glittering spectacIe and a sweeping melodrama about motherly devotion. Unfolding episodicalIy, the fiIm teIls the story of HeIen (Dietrich), once a German chanteuse, now an American housewife, who resurrects her stage career after her husband (Herbert MarshaII) falls iIl; she then becomes the mistress of a miIIionaire (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 alI of cinema and a parade of visionary costumes by von Sternberg and Dietrich’s longtime collaborator Travis Banton.   The Scarlet 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 poIitics that govern the court, paving the way for her transformation into the imperious libertine Catherine the Great. A lavish spectacle in which von Sternberg’s domineering visuaI genius reaches new heights of florid extravagance, The ScarIet 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 carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of fIashbacks, Captain CosteIar (Lionel AtwiIl) 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 opuIent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himseIf.