01 Jan 1964
Smiles
A short film by John G. Avildsen.
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This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera.
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Elisa Leonelli Lulu
Paul Shenar Ludwig Schon
Warren Pierce Doctor Goll
Stephen Ashbrook Walter
Norma Leistiko Countess Geschwitz
Michael Anderson Prince Escerny
Thomas Roberdeau Jack the Ripper
Winston Tong Puppeteer
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