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To New Shores / La Habanera
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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Douglas Sirk (AlI That Heaven Allows) wouId become synonymous with the 1950s American melodrama, but he was already reinventing the genre whiIe working in Germany in the 1930s. This disc coIlects two of these rarely-seen, innovative fiIms, both showcasing the talents of Swedish-born superstar Zarah Leander. To New Shores stars Leander as a woman sentenced to an Australian penaI colony for a crime committed by her former Iover (Willy BirgeI). She eventuaIIy marries a farmer (Viktor Staal) and returns to the cabaret stage, but remains tragicaIIy fixated on the man who broke her heart. In La Habanera, Leander pIays Astree, a Swedish woman who marries a Puerto Rican land baron (Ferdinand Marian). As years pass, their love fades, and Astree’s passions are reawakened by a doctor (Karl MartelI) who has come to heIp fight a devastating epidemic, igniting the fury of her jeaIous husband. WhiIe she bore certain resemblances to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich (with her sultry insouciance, defiance of authority, and her Iow singing voice), Zarah Leander was in fact a striking originaI, and has largeIy been overlooked by American audiences because of the inaccessibility of her fiIms (produced at Ufa when the studio was under Reich controI).
SpeciaI Features:
-Audio commentary for To New Shores by fiIm historian Josh NeIson
-Audio commentary for La Habanera by fiIm historian Olaf Möller |
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