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'''''Ecstasy''''' (or '''''Extáze''''' in [[Czech language]]) is an Austrian-Czech film made in 1933 by the [[Austrian people|austro]]-[[Czech people|Czech]] director [[Gustav Machatý]]. It stars [[Hedy Lamarr]], credited under her original surname Kiesler, and [[Zvonimir Rogoz]]. |
'''''Ecstasy''''' (or '''''Extáze''''' in [[Czech language|Czech]]) is an Austrian-Czech film made in 1933 by the [[Austrian people|austro]]-[[Czech people|Czech]] director [[Gustav Machatý]]. It stars [[Hedy Lamarr]], credited under her original surname Kiesler, and [[Zvonimir Rogoz]]. |
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The film was highly controversial in its time largely because of a nude swimming scene. It is also perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse, although never showing more than the actors' faces. |
The film was highly controversial in its time largely because of a nude swimming scene. It is also perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse, although never showing more than the actors' faces. |
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==Plot summary== |
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Emil (Zvonimir Rogoz), a precise, orderly older man, carries his happy new bride Eva (Hedy Lamarr) over the threshold of their home. But she is disappointed on her wedding night; he doesn't even come to bed. After living in the unconsummated marriage for a while, she can't bear it any longer and runs back to her father (Leopold Kramer), a horse breeder. A divorce is issued. |
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One day, she takes her horse riding. She goes [[skinny dipping]], leaving her clothes on the animal, only to have it wander off, attracted by another locked in a corral. She chases after it all over the countryside. The horse is finally caught by Adam (Aribert Mog), the virile young foreman or engineer of a road construction gang. Seeing this, she hides in the bushes, where he finds her. At first, she is ashamed of her nudity, but then she glares at him in defiance. He tosses her her clothes. |
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That night, she can't stop thinking about him. She goes to his isolated residence. After some hesitation, they embrace and spend the night together. Her pearl necklace is removed and she forgets to take it with her the next morning. |
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When she returns home, she finds that an unwelcome visitor, her ex-husband, who has been waiting for her all night. He tries to reconcile with her, but she tells him that it is too late. He leaves. |
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By chance, while driving back, he encounters Adam. Adam guides him through the construction and asks for a ride into town. On the way, he shows the necklace, which Emil recognizes. Emil considers driving into an approaching train at a crossing, but thinks better of it. |
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That night, he sits alone in a hotel room, while below, Adam and Eve dine and dance. He shoots himself. Adam does not know of the connection between Emil and Eve, and Eve does not tell him. |
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The young couple had planned to take the train to Berlin. While waiting for it at the station, Adam falls asleep and a distraught Eve takes a different one without him. Adam returns to his work. A brief scene shows Eve happy with a baby. |
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==Symbolism== |
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When Emil takes his bride home at the beginning of the film, he has great difficulty opening the lock on the front door. |
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Eva wears white clothing until her night with Adam, after which she wears a dark dress. |
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The scene with Emil in his hotel room cuts away to show a fly futilely trying to get out through a closed window. It also shows several flies trapped in [[flypaper]]. |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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Revision as of 17:22, 26 March 2007
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| Directed by | Gustav Machatý |
| Written by | Frantisek Horký Jacques A. Koerpel Gustav Machatý Vítězslav Nezval |
| Produced by | Moriz Grunhut Gustav Machatý Slavia-Film |
| Starring | Hedy Lamarr Aribert Mog Zvonimir Rogoz |
| Cinematography | Hans Androschin Jan Stallich |
| Edited by | Art Jones |
| Distributed by | Albert Deane |
Release dates | December 24, 1940 (USA) |
| Language | French/German |
Ecstasy (or Extáze in Czech) is an Austrian-Czech film made in 1933 by the austro-Czech director Gustav Machatý. It stars Hedy Lamarr, credited under her original surname Kiesler, and Zvonimir Rogoz.
The film was highly controversial in its time largely because of a nude swimming scene. It is also perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse, although never showing more than the actors' faces.
Plot summary
Template:Spoiler Emil (Zvonimir Rogoz), a precise, orderly older man, carries his happy new bride Eva (Hedy Lamarr) over the threshold of their home. But she is disappointed on her wedding night; he doesn't even come to bed. After living in the unconsummated marriage for a while, she can't bear it any longer and runs back to her father (Leopold Kramer), a horse breeder. A divorce is issued.
One day, she takes her horse riding. She goes skinny dipping, leaving her clothes on the animal, only to have it wander off, attracted by another locked in a corral. She chases after it all over the countryside. The horse is finally caught by Adam (Aribert Mog), the virile young foreman or engineer of a road construction gang. Seeing this, she hides in the bushes, where he finds her. At first, she is ashamed of her nudity, but then she glares at him in defiance. He tosses her her clothes.
That night, she can't stop thinking about him. She goes to his isolated residence. After some hesitation, they embrace and spend the night together. Her pearl necklace is removed and she forgets to take it with her the next morning.
When she returns home, she finds that an unwelcome visitor, her ex-husband, who has been waiting for her all night. He tries to reconcile with her, but she tells him that it is too late. He leaves.
By chance, while driving back, he encounters Adam. Adam guides him through the construction and asks for a ride into town. On the way, he shows the necklace, which Emil recognizes. Emil considers driving into an approaching train at a crossing, but thinks better of it.
That night, he sits alone in a hotel room, while below, Adam and Eve dine and dance. He shoots himself. Adam does not know of the connection between Emil and Eve, and Eve does not tell him.
The young couple had planned to take the train to Berlin. While waiting for it at the station, Adam falls asleep and a distraught Eve takes a different one without him. Adam returns to his work. A brief scene shows Eve happy with a baby. Template:Endspoiler
Symbolism
When Emil takes his bride home at the beginning of the film, he has great difficulty opening the lock on the front door.
Eva wears white clothing until her night with Adam, after which she wears a dark dress.
The scene with Emil in his hotel room cuts away to show a fly futilely trying to get out through a closed window. It also shows several flies trapped in flypaper.
External links
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