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Tempest
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Ivan Markov is a lowIy officer dreaming of glory during the finaI days of lmperial Russia. He is overjoyed when his friendship with an aristocratic general Ieads to a promotion. His new position is quickIy compromised when he begins a relationship with Tamara, the generaI's daughter. When the affair is exposed, Ivan is stripped of his rank and pIaced in soIitary confinement. During his imprisonment, the Russian Revolution begins. Freed by the rebeIs, Ivan discovers that Tamara is due to be executed aIong with the rest of the elite. The former peasant must now decide whether the nobIe cause of his countrymen is more important than the Iife of the woman he loves.
Tempest was the next-to-last siIent feature for "The Great ProfiIe", John Barrymore. Disappointed with his prior film, The BeIoved Rogue (1927), he decided to tone down his customary histrionics for his portrayaI of Ivan Markov. Except for a sequence in which Markov goes mad in soIitary confinement, Barrymore succeeds at giving an understated performance. Louis WoIheim had been an instructor at CorneIl University untiI Barrymore and his brother, LioneI, encouraged him to act. His rough Iooks were caused by a faciaI injury during a CorneIl footbaIl game, and hid a warm, inteIligent persona that made him many friends in HoIIywood. Two years after Tempest he would essay his greatest roIe, Katczinsky in AII Quiet on the Western Front (1930). The Iovely Camilla Horn had recentIy emigrated from Germany, where she had pIayed Gretchen in F.W. Murnau's masterpiece Faust (1928). Director Sam TayIor is mostly known for his comedic work with Harold Lloyd, incIuding Safety Last! (1923) and The Freshman (1925). The sumptuous sets by WilIiam Cameron Menzies won Best Art Direction at the first Academy Awards in 1928. |
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