Es werde Licht! (1917)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 0M
Director : Richard Oswald
Sinopsis
A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.
A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
A principios del siglo XX Karen Blixen (Streep), una mujer europea de gran coraje, llega a Kenia para dirigir una plantación de café junto a su marido (Brandauer), un mujeriego incorregible con el que no se ha casado por amor. Para su sorpresa, Karen se da cuenta de que poco a poco se está enamorando de la tierra, de sus gentes... y de Denys Finch-Hatton (Redford), un enigmático cazador aventurero.
Londres, 1660, Época de la Restauración. En un periodo en el que tienen lugar constantes descubrimientos y progresos en el mundo de la ciencia, la religión y las artes, vive el decadente John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), Conde de Rochester, amigo y confidente del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra (John Malkovich). Wilmot, destacado poeta, dramaturgo, soldado y cortesano, mujeriego, hedonista y libertino, es uno de los personajes más peculiares e influyentes del siglo XVII.
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant
La película narra los peligros y el tratamiento de las enfermedades venéreas. Tony Medroni está entusiasmado con el inminente nacimiento de un hijo, pero cuando el niño nace muerto, Tony debe enfrentar el hecho de que su propia historia sexual ha causado la muerte del niño. Un médico le explica el problema a Tony y discute otros casos con un amigo.
In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from a tryst with a waitress named Ellie (Lynne Lipton). This threatens his relationship with a new girl. Film critic Amy Taubin co-stars as the new girl who gets the bad news. The director is apparently the same man who edited Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.
Warning of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis.
The Price He Paid
