Director
Josef von Sternberg
Composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton
Edition 1992
79'
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1935
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Drama, Comedy, Romance
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Dialogue:
Spanish, English
Mariene is Concha Perez, cigarette factory girl, sailing serenely through a comic-opera Spain in a steely, deeply felt analysis of male masochism. Sternberg centers on the experience of two men (a young revolutionary and an older military man) who love Mariene and compulsively submit to the agonies of being rejected by her. Even those who go only lor the Dietrich glamour can't miss these underlying tensions, since the stoic acceptance of emotional pain undermines all the surface frivolity. Some will find the glittering cruelty sublime. (Time Out 1990)
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Directors
Josef von Sternberg
Composers
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton
Scenario
John Dos Passos, David Hertz
Director of Photography
Lucien Ballard
Editors
Sam Winston
Producers
Josef von Sternberg
Production studios
Paramount Pictures
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Dialogue
Spanish, English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"La femme et le pantin" (Pierre Louÿs)
Year
1935
