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Ecstasy (1933)
"Ekstase" (original title)

 -  Drama | Romance  -  April 1936 (USA)
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Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, ... See full summary »

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
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Eva Hermann (as Hedy Kiesler)
Aribert Mog ...
Adam
Zvonimir Rogoz ...
Emile
Leopold Kramer ...
Eva's Father
Emil Jerman ...
Eva's husband (voice)
Jirina Steimarová ...
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Bedrich Vrbský ...
Eva's father (voice)
Jirina Stepnicková ...
Eva (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Antonín Kubový ...
Ein Landstreicher
Karel Macha-Kuca ...
Der Rechtsanwalt
Pierre Nay ...
Le jeune homme
André Nox ...
Le père
Eduard Slégl ...
Ein Landstreicher
Jan Sviták ...
Der Tänzer auf der Barandov-Terrasse
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Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

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The Stark Naked Truth Of A Woman's Desire For Love See more »

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Drama | Romance

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My Ecstasy  »

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The song in the outdoor café is performed by the famous Comedian Harmonists. See more »

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Featured in The Love Goddesses (1965) See more »

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Oh My God....Cover The Kiddies Eyes,Dear!
3 June 2007 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

The first time I had the window of opportunity to see this all but forgotten classic was back in the early 1980's,at one of our art houses as a revival. As I watched this fever dream of an exercise in 1930's sexuality, I thought YOWZA! They got away with murder in Europe back in the day. Unfortunately, this film was heavily cut in it's original U.S. release by the blue nosed Hayes Office (the staunch government censorship board,started by the "holier than thou" Bible thumper, Will Hayes...a former Post Office official,if you can believe that),due to it's overall theme of human sexuality (Heaven's forbid humans actually had sex in the 1930's). The plot of Ecstasy concerns a young woman (played by Hedy Lamarr)who marries a much older man,and later regrets it. She (Lamarr)meets a handsome younger man & has an affair with him, resulting in a divorce from previous husband (another no no in Hollywood movies back then---Divorce!). Despite the fact that the film was produced in 1933, it was probably the director's first time working in the sound format (i.e. the film seems to possess techniques that were used mostly in silent films---i.e. 1920's expressionism's). It's still worth searching out for a window into early European talking pictures,along with Luis Bunuels L'Age Dor (1930),and Karl Gustav Dryer's 'Vampyre' (1931). Not rated,but contains that infamous nude swimming scene & some thinly veiled sexual references, which would fare little more than a PG-13 by today's standards (but would have easily landed the dreaded 'X',back in the 30's,if it existed then)


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