A film based on novel Jane Eyre.
Mrs. von Hersdorff
A aristocratic lieutenant is forced to resign his commission and give up his career in the cavalry after having defended himself against deliberate provocations by a superior officer who is competing with him for the love of the daughter of a respected privy councillor. His family bans him to New York, where he falls on hard times until a former circus performer helps him to become a world-renowned trapeze and aerial artiste.
DANGEROUS PATHS marked the beginning of Henrik Galeen’s collaboration with Piel, which by 1931 had comprised a total of five films. The present film offers the opportunity to see screenwriter Galeen in front of the camera as the super-rich American Francis. The journeyman carpenter Harry is bewitched by Francis’s daughter Dorothy, whom he has to rescue from the clutches of dangerous hoodlums. The gang is also trying to steal the crown of a prince. Thus Harry finds himself in a sophisticated adventure that features spectacular nature shots (filmed in the Alps).
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
En el siglo XIX, una mujer hedonista se casa con un aristócrata, pero le cuesta mantenerse fiel a él.
"Die Flamme" fue la última película de Lubitsch en Alemania, antes de su partida a Estados Unidos. Desafortunadamente, sólo queda una bobina de este melodrama con Pola Negri. La reconstrucción realizada para el Museo de Cine de Munich se compone, por tanto, de numerosas fotografías del rodaje y dibujos del guion que complementan los 22 minutos restantes de película. Pola interpreta con garra a su personaje de mujer perdida. Se advierte el toque de Lubitsch en detalles muy concretos, como el pequeño gesto de la mano de Yvette hacia su compañera de cuarto para mantener alejado al peligroso Gaston. Es difícil tener una opinión verdadera sobre esta película porque sólo queda un fragmento muy pequeño. Es obligado remarcar, no obstante, el cuidado con la decoración y el vestuario para reconstituir el París del Segundo Imperio. Alfred Abel es un excelente villano.
Frau Eriksen
