Decla-Bioscop (Germany)
Directed by F.W. Murnau
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Bored hunters at a rainy, remote estate, gather in sprawling drawing rooms. A visiting count spurs talk of a murder, and when the widowed wife shows up things get really interesting. Flashbacks reveal how her husband becomes consumed by a religion denying worldly things. The ignored wife turns to a friend of her husband for comfort, and maybe more. Other than a couple of dream sequences this is melodramatic Murnau more typical of films of the period, not the horror-tinged, expressionistic films which would come shortly.
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