约亨沃尔特是德国银行的一名资深投资银行家,春暖与其助手汤姆·斯莱扎克刚刚完成一笔大单。庆功会上约亨却突然跳楼自杀。全球范围内有多起银行家自杀的案例的情况下,春暖外界纷纷猜测约亨的自杀原因,甚至有人怀疑是他杀。约亨的妻子对银行推卸责任的说法很不满,称约亨自杀前留下一封遗书,其中有涉及约亨真实死亡原因的银行保单。汤姆对其突然死亡也表示怀疑,天台拍摄到跳楼过程的摄像头也被移走。到底是自杀还是谋杀。
约亨沃尔特是德国银行的一名资深投资银行家,春暖与其助手汤姆·斯莱扎克刚刚完成一笔大单。庆功会上约亨却突然跳楼自杀。全球范围内有多起银行家自杀的案例的情况下,春暖外界纷纷猜测约亨的自杀原因,甚至有人怀疑是他杀。约亨的妻子对银行推卸责任的说法很不满,称约亨自杀前留下一封遗书,其中有涉及约亨真实死亡原因的银行保单。汤姆对其突然死亡也表示怀疑,天台拍摄到跳楼过程的摄像头也被移走。到底是自杀还是谋杀。
回复 :迪莉娅(米利亚姆·霍普金斯 Miriam Hopkins 饰)原本要和克莱姆(乔治·布伦特 George Brent 饰)携手步入婚姻的殿堂,然而半路杀出了个富豪吉姆(詹姆斯·斯蒂芬森 James Stephenson 饰),迪莉娅始乱终弃,最终嫁给了吉姆。迪莉娅的堂妹夏洛特(贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰)非常同情克莱姆的遭遇,陪伴并且时时安慰他,不幸的是,克莱姆在战场上身亡了,而此时夏洛特的腹中已经怀上了克莱姆的孩子。最终,夏洛特生下了孩子,并交给莉迪亚抚养,而吉姆的堂兄乔伊(威廉姆·霍珀 William Hopper 饰)则爱上了楚楚可怜的夏洛特,这令善妒的莉迪亚气的快要发疯,发誓一定要破坏两人之间的感情。
回复 :“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today. The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster. As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself. “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.
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