Format:
2 DVD-Videos (270 Min.)
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teilw. viragiert
Uniform Title:
La roue
Content:
Taken to its bare bones, the story deals with Sisif, a locomotive engineer who saves Norma, an infant girl, from a train wreck and raises her as his adopted daughter. Norma thinks Sisif's son Elie is her brother, and when the two fall in love, she leaves to marry a virtual stranger. Sisif is also obsessed with her and the plot elaborates this triangular relationship. German director G.W. Pabst, an ardent admirer of "La Roue", was encouraged by Gance's example to undertake his own remarkable explorations of human psychology in such silent films as "Secrets of a Soul", "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl". Yet "La Roue" is even more remarkable for its cinematic accomplishment than for its story ... Almost every sequence was experimental; as his cinematographer, L-H Burel recalled, "I'd never come to the end of it if I were to list all the tests we did, all the special effects I invented, and all the innovations we launched." Like "Intolerance" and "Citizen Kane", "La Roue" became a source book of cinematic invention that reverberated in countless other classic films over the decades. It was hailed by artists and intellectuals, who recognized it as a stunning advance in modern art. Said Akira Kurosawa, "The first film that really impressed me was 'La Roue'." [Cover]
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Language:
English
Keywords:
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