C. Aubrey Smith, Davison Clark, Erville Alderson
The radiant Princess Sophia Frederica (Marlene Dietrich) gets taken to Russia, renamed Catherine, and married off to the Grand Duke Peter. Peter is "a royal half-wit" with all the physical (and intell...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 8, 2001
Stats: 92 reviews
What extravagent decadence this was. The whole visual style of this film is just ridiculous with the bizarre gothic sets and expressionistic lighting. To add to that there's these hilariously campy dialogue and performances that offset all seriousness.
another dietrich/sternberg collaboration which highly emphasizes the supreme feminism through emanicipated sex charisma as means to dominate over men, maybe over the entire russian nation deflected upon the lens of a promiscuous historical woman figure "catherine the great" who ...( read more)
Historical melodrama, with sets that punch you in the face. This film has a big German Expressionist hangover but it just adds to make it really visually stunning, and effective.
It's hard to pass up a chance to stare at Marlene Dietrich, but this experiment by Sternberg is one ...( read more)
The power which Dietrich's character projects on screen feels so real that it could be haunting for a patriarchy society.
Marlene Dietrich sluts around in really expensive royal clothing (which does make her look incredible) in a palace decorated with monster statues and a monstrous Russian Empress who only wants Dietrich to mate with her retarded looking son for an heir to the throne. Well, that's ...( read more)
Lavish spectacle of the story of Catherine the Great. Marlene Dietrich gives a wonderful performance in going from a naive young girl to the ambitious woman who becomes empress of Russia.
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