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?This is a jewel of a film, tragically known only to a tiny group of connoisseurs;? it deserves a wider circulation.? Possibly the masterpiece of Hermann von Noirenstein?s ?darkest? period, it was made entirely on location in an unlit and unheated cellar in Greenland, with a cast of deaf mute amputees.? The sparsity of the dialogue, as the actors struggle to make any sound, and the dark screen, as the camera gnomically declines to provide any visual assistance, gradually draws the audience into an absorbing world in which the most tender elements of the human soul are first brutally exposed, then flagellated into pulsating agony, and finally left to die ? miserable, abandoned, alone.? Deeply uplifting.?

Posted By: Old Git, Feb 24, 15:59:53