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Time Out says

'1915...Strange figures emerge from the rubble of the Austrian Empire': among them X-27 (Dietrich) and H-14 (McLaglen), military spies and best-loving enemies. Sternberg's absurd espionage melodrama is just one more peg on which to hang his familiar, outrageous pictorial stylistics and to extend his fetishisation of Marlene - yet the result is amazing. Beyond improbability lies another of Sternberg's systematic examinations of the feminine mystique, and the tragedy of a woman sacrificed on the altar of her sexualty. Right on the surface lies the inevitable patina of telling innuendo; in one deliciously transparent scene, Marlene is betrayed by her own pussy(cat), which eventually lands up safe in the arms of the church as Marlene is shot for her sins.
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Release Details

  • Duration:91 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Josef von Sternberg
  • Screenwriter:Daniel N Rubin
  • Cast:
    • Marlene Dietrich
    • Victor McLaglen
    • Lew Cody
    • Warner Oland
    • Gustav von Seyffertitz
    • Barry Norton
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