Fantastic


This is cinema at it purest form. I love how Dimitri Kirsanoff tells the story with out intertitles. Murnau had done it two years before him in Der Letzte Mann (1924) but it is till impressive.

I also love the poetic atmosphere in the whole film and how Kirsanoff uses the nature and the city to express inner emotions. And there are so many great scenes there. The opening scene alone is enough reason to see the film.

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100% agree

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As do I... Outstanding usage of imagery for both poetic & psychological effect... Just recently resaw it for the first time in about 20 years on Kino's DVD (Avant Garde - Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s) along with many other avant garde greats...

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