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The devil is a woman

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth, Cesar Romero, Don Alvarado, Tempe Piggott, Francisco Moreno.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (79 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich went out with a bang in their final film together, The Devil Is a Woman, a surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar recounts to the young Antonio Galvan the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez, warning his listener to gird himself against her charms. Despite his counsel, Galvan falls under Concha's spell, leading to a violent denouement. Ever the ornate visual stylist, von Sternberg evokes Spanish culture with a touch of the luridly fantastic, further elevated by Travis Banton's opulent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himself."--Container.

Notes

From the novel The woman and the puppet by Pierre Louÿs.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

Issued in a boxed set: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; "If it isn't pain," a song removed from the film.

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