Film

Magnificent Obsession

Retrospettiva: Douglas Sirk

USA  ·  1953  ·  DCP 2K  ·  Color  ·  108'  ·  o.v. English

Screening

Saturday 6 | 8 | 2022, 17:30  ·  GranRex  ·  Sub. French

Introduced by João Pedro Rodrigues


Screening

Saturday 13 | 8 | 2022, 17:30  ·  GranRex  ·  Sub. French

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A remake of Stahl’s 1935 film and the first of Universal’s great Technicolor melodramas. A series of coincidences and fatal accidents lead to blindness for Jane Wyman and redemption for Rock Hudson. A story “halfway between kitsch and madness”, sublimated through the great art of the director.

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Director

Douglas Sirk

Cast

Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorhead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush

Producer

Ross Hunter

Cinematography

Russell Metty

Editing

Milton Carruth

Music

Frank Skinner

Screenplay

Robert Blees, Wells Root

Based on

the novel from Lloyd C. Douglas and the script by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman

Production

Universal International
www.universalstudios.com

International sales

Park Circus
info@parkcircus.com
www.parkcircus.com


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