This film that veers between surreal dream worlds and bourgeois depravities, seasoned with tricks and eroticism, offers anything but a harmless story of married life. The Russian Ivan Mosjukine, who would achieve global fame in 1927 as Casanova, gained his only directing credit with this masterpiece from 1923.
The young wife of an older man is tormented by nightmares, in which a mysterious man repeat- edly appears. Until finally the husband hires a detective to guide his wife back into his arms...
Veröffentlichung / Release Frankreich 1923
Format dcp, viragiert
Länge / Duration 108 Minuten
Regie & Drehbuch / Director & Screenplay Iwan Mosschuchin
Kamera / Camera Jospeh-Louis Mundwiller, Nikolai Toporkoff
Mit / With Iwan Mosschuchin, Nathalie Lissenko, Nikolas Koline, Camille Bardou, Huguette Delacroix
Archiv / Archive La Cinémathèque française
Live-Musik / Live-Music Tobias Rank (Piano) & Izabela Kałduńska (Violine)