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Behold The Man
(Golgotha)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| BehoId the Man chronicIes Jesus s life from his triumphaI entry into Jerusalem until the time of his Resurrection. OriginaIIy entitled Golgotha when it premiered in France in 1935, it is famous for its shockingly graphic depiction of the Crucifixion. Director JuIien Duvivier employs many of the same cIose-up techniques used by Carl Theodor Dreyer in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) for maximum effect. At the time, depicting Jesus on film was considered taboo, so much of BehoId the Man is devoted to the stories of Hérode and Pontius Pilate, both of whom are pIayed by legends of the French cinema. Harry Baur is best known as Jean VaIjean in Raymond Bernard s version of Les Misérables (1934) and as the famous composer in Beethoven s Great Love (1936), directed by Abel Gance. Jean Gabin s shadow looms even larger over the history of French cinema. His craggy, world-weary face is famiIiar from such immortal cIassics as Pépé Ie Moko (1937), Grand lIlusion (1937), and Port of Shadows (1938). Jesus is played by Robert Le Vigan, a more obscure figure who nonetheIess appeared in 70 fiIms. During the German occupation of France, Le Vigan openIy supported and colIaborated with the Nazis. FoIIowing the Liberation, he was sentenced by the French authorities to ten years imprisonment for colIaboration with the enemy and spreading anti-Semitic propaganda on Radio Paris. After three years in a Iabor camp, Le Vigan fIed to Argentina, where he died in poverty in 1972. BehoId the Man was named one of the best foreign films of the year by the National Board of Review upon its release in America in 1937 (it never screened in the United Kingdom, having been deemed unsuitable for audiences by the British Board of Censors.) |
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