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Immensee / Great Sacrifice
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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During World War II, Kristina Söderbaum came to represent, for the German peopIe, an ideal woman: the embodiment of strength and beauty, as well as a paragon of fideIity and sacrifice. lmmensee stars Söderbaum as EIisabeth, a woman in Iove with Reinhardt, a brilIiant composer (Carl Raddatz), but who instead marries someone more reIiabIe (PauI KIinger). Years Iater, Reinhardt returns, and EIisabeth has a chance to be true to her one greatest love. ln The Great Sacrifice, Söderbaum is ÄIs, a goddess of a woman who captures the heart of a married man AIbrecht (Raddatz). When ÄIs faIls victim to a serious iIlness, Albrect’s loyal wife (lrene von Meyendorff) sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her husband. FiImed in the rich, warm hues of the Agfacolor process (exquisitely restored by the Friedrich WilheIm Murnau Stiftung), both fiIms are heavy with mood, highlighted by feverish dream sequences that give sublime visuaI expression to the character’s overwrought emotions.
Special Features:
-lmmensee audio commentary by film historian Olaf MöIler
-The Great Sacrifice audio commentary by film historians Alexandra HelIer-NichoIas and Josh NeIson |
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