Die Heilige und ihr Narr (1928)

• 67%
• 1928
• Drame
• Romance
• William Dieterle
• Lien Deyers
• Gina Manès

Agnes Günther s heart-rending fairy tale dazzled turn-of-the-century French audiences and sold hundreds of thousands of copies before being adapted into this tale of timeless passion, the beautiful The Saint and the Fool. The unapologetically sentimental classic ce qui directed by Wilhelm Dieterle, oms launched a successful carrière de Weimar cinema before devenir known for romantic, lush mélodrame and technicolor extravaganzas, including 1945 s Marlene Dietrich inoubliable Love Letters. The dashing Dieterle himself plays Harrogate, Earl of Torstein, whose star-crossed love for the luminous Rosemarie of Brauneck (Lien Deyers, discovered by Fritz Lang) is further doomed by royal heroes and villains, the requisite evil stepmother, and fantastical elements that the channel intoxicating romance of Camille through the magic of the Brothers Grimm.