The Scarlet Empress
| Director | Josef von Sternberg |
|---|---|
| Year | 1934 |
| Country | USA |
| Runtime | 1h 44m |
| Language | English |
| Format | DCP |
| TMDB | View entry |
Synopsis
“Scorning to employ the humdrum laws of dramatic development, Sternberg has created a bizarre and fantastical historical carnival… A ponderous, strangely beautiful, lengthy, and frequently wearying production, his new work is strictly not a dramatic photoplay at all, but a succession of overelaborated scenes, dramatized emotional moods, and gaudily plotted visual excitements… The players… seem to lose their hold on humanity under Sternberg’s narcotic influence and become like people struggling helplessly in a dream.” – Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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