Knight Without Armour (Feyder, 1937): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 2.50pm
This 35mm screening (also being presented on December 19th) is part of the Marlene Dietrich season runnign right through December at BFI Southbank (details here).
Time Out review:
Reality never held much sway at Alexander Korda's Denham studios,
least of all during the making of this lavishly preposterous melodrama
of Russian life before and after the 1917 Revolution. Marlene Dietrich is the
cool, fur-swathed Countess Vladinoff, who strips down for two
titillating baths during her protracted rush to freedom organised by
much-bearded Robert Donat, who pretends to be a Russian Commissar but is
actually AJ Fothergill, British secret agent. Jacques Feyder's typically stylish
direction raises the film way above its subject matter, almost at times
towards art.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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