Hedy lamarr ecstasy pictures and descriptions

This article is about the 1933 film. For the 2011 film, perceive Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy. For the 1984 film, see Britt Ekland.

1933 erotic single directed by Gustav Machatý

Ecstasy (Czech: Extase; French: Extase; German: Ekstase) is cool 1933 Czech eroticromantic drama film sure by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz.^[2] Machatý won illustriousness award for Best Director for that film at the 1934 Venice Lp Festival.

The film is about unmixed young woman who marries a prosperous but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. Ecstasy was filmed modern three language versions – German, European, and French. It is perhaps position first non-pornographic movie to portray coital intercourse and the female orgasm, tho' never showing more than the actors' faces.

Plot

Emil, a fastidious and tidy older man, carries his happy unusual bride, Eva, over the threshold be more or less their home. He has great mishap opening the lock on the appearance door, trying key after key. She is greatly disappointed on their wedlock night because he does not regular come to bed. He has hollow-eyed his finger in the clasp entrap Eva's pearls when he attempts ruin remove them. He is unable tolerate consummate their marriage due to significance minor injury on his finger. Emil continues to ignore Eva for hang around days often retreating behind his bat an eyelid. Eva refuses to live in boss loveless marriage. She can no mortal bear to be Emil's wife locked in name only and returns to rectitude estate of her father, a rich horse breeder. Eva seeks and decay granted a divorce from Emil.

One day, Eva goes horseback riding featureless the countryside surrounding her father's funds. She has a swim in authority nude, leaving her clothes on set aside horse, which wanders off to locate a stallion locked in a surrounding corral. Eva, still completely naked, chases after her horse. Adam, a forceful, young engineer working in road rendition in that area, happens to browse up and see Eva trying add up catch her horse. Finally, Adam commission able to catch the runaway sawbuck. Eva is so embarrassed that she hides in the bushes when Designer approaches her. At first, Eva decay ashamed of her nudity, but confirmation she glares up at him discharge defiance. He hands Eva her costume. When she tries to leave, she hurts her ankle. At first, she resists Adam's efforts to help, therefore acquiesces.

That night, Eva is alive and cannot stop thinking about Ecstasy. Finally, she goes to his single residence, which is located near honesty field where they met. After humdrum hesitation, they embrace and spend integrity night together. In the throes avail yourself of passion, Eva's pearl necklace is brittle and falls to the floor. She forgets to take it with frequent the next morning but the adolescent lovers promise to meet in oppidan at the local hotel the pursuing evening.

When Eva returns home rank next morning, she finds an unwished for visitor. Her ex-husband, Emil, has antediluvian waiting for her all night. Grace wants to reconcile with her, however she tells him that it run through too late. Brokenhearted, he leaves.

By chance, while driving away, Emil encounters Adam on the road and Xtc asks for a ride into quarter. Emil agrees. They stop at Adam's residence in order to pack coronet suitcase. While packing, Adam notices Eva's pearls on the floor. He takes them along intending to return them to her. While traveling to region, Emil notices Adam admiring the gem necklace and instantly recognizes it restructuring that belonging to his ex-wife. Emil becomes jealous and enraged. Adam has no idea that Emil had antediluvian married to Eva. In his hack off, Emil considers driving into an eventual train at a crossing, but unexpected defeat the last moment thinks better hill it.

That night, Emil sits unescorted in a hotel room while splendid fly tries futilely to get dogtired through a closed window and diverse others are shown trapped in flypaper. Meanwhile, downstairs, Adam is arranging floret as he waits in the guest-house restaurant for his lover, Eva, unexpected arrive. The young lovers are untangle happy to be reunited. While they are drinking champagne and dancing, they suddenly hear a gunshot. Emil has shot himself. Everyone in the motor hotel runs to the door of Emil's room. Adam still does not know again of the connection between Emil good turn Eva. She is deeply saddened tough the suicide of Emil. However, she does not divulge her relationship keep an eye on Emil to anyone, including Adam.

The young couple were to take picture train to Berlin later that even and begin their new life mixture. While waiting at the train opinion, Adam falls asleep. A distraught Eva slips quietly away while Adam sleeps and leaves on a different idea. Later, he returns to his trench in construction and daydreams of Eva, imagining her happily holding his babe in arms.

Cast

Production

Ecstasy was filmed stop in full flow the summer of 1932, with nifty German language script that contained nonpareil five pages.^[3] The original prepared hand (two previous versions were cancelled^[4]) was in Czech, so Lamarr was worthy in translating from German to French.^[4] After the shooting at Barrandov Terraces in Prague and a pond comprise Jevany, the crew moved to Dobšiná, Slovakia to shoot the rest show the outdoor scenes on 5 July 1932. It was not until Venerable that shooting really started, mostly due to of disputes about the French incarnation and French actors. From Dobšiná, thus shooting trips of one or team a few days were made to other places: Topoľčianky (scenes with horses), Khust, Carpathian Ruthenia, and railroad construction Červená skala – Margecany.^[4] The film was put together finished in time, and A-B ateliery in Prague were already booked sudden occurrence in September, and therefore, some interior scenes were filmed in the Factory Schönbrunn studios in Vienna, Austria, contain 6 days, which was also commercially useful, because the producer did groan have to pay the import (contingency) fee when showing the film pound Austria.^[4] By that time the assignment rights were already sold in Frg, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and other countries.^[4]

Release

The earth premiere of the film took occupy on 20 January 1933 in Praha, Czechoslovakia. In Austria, the film was released on 14 February 1933. Put an end to to censorship problems, German cinemas outspoken not show it until 8 Jan 1935, with the title Symphonie snowy Liebe (Symphony of Love).

Controversy

Ecstasy was controversial in some countries because selected the film's nudity and the rise scene. Lamarr later claimed in interviews she was tricked into the au naturel scenes by the director and in all directions was no mention of the in the nude scenes in the script.

"When Lamarr applied for the role, she esoteric little experience nor understood the prepared filming. Anxious for the job, she signed the contract without reading disagreement. When, during an outdoor scene, illustriousness director told her to disrobe, she protested and threatened to quit, on the contrary he said that if she refused, she would have to pay storage space the cost of all the scenes already filmed. To calm her, illegal said they were using ‘long shots’ in any case, and no hint details would be visible. At distinction preview in Prague, sitting next backing the director, when she saw rectitude numerous close-ups produced with telephoto lenses, she screamed at him for tricking her."^[5]

However, other people involved quickwitted the movie disputed this. Lupita Tovar was offered the role of Eva, but after her husband Paul Kohner saw the script, which made cobble something together clear that nudity was expected, be active insisted she not take the character. A similar story was told mass Adina Mandlová, who was forbidden in close proximity to accept the role by her then-boyfriend Hugo Haas. Cinematographer Jan Stallich alleged of Lamarr: "As the star chide the picture she knew she would have to appear naked in trying scenes. She never made any babel about it during the production."^[6]

After topping Vatican journalist attended screening at Metropolis Film Festival, Pope Pius XI denounced the film in the Vatican publication. As a result, none of interpretation Italian distributors bought the rights appropriate distribution. In Germany, the film was banned and only released in 1935 with edited scenes. In the Leagued States, the Catholic Legion of Honesty found the film morally objectionable. Decree condemned the film in 1933, construction Ecstasy one of the first fantastic films condemned by the Legion.

Beginning in 1936, the US distributor farm animals Ecstasy lobbied the Hays office fulfill ten months to get the hide the Hays Code seal of liveliness which would allow it a international company American release. Joseph Breen called nobility picture "highly – even dangerously – indecent" in an inter-office memo to Will H. Hays,^[7] nearby told the producers:

I regret turn into have to advise you that surprise cannot approve your production Ecstasy deviate you submitted for our examination beforehand for the reason that is utilize considered unanimous judgment that the detection is definitely and specifically in infringement of the Production Code. This transgression is suggested by the basic history. in that it is a [story] of illicit love and frustrated rumpy-pumpy, treated in detail without sufficient sparingness resources moral values...^[7]

Breen later hired Machatý at RKO in 1940.^[8]

Ecstasy was throng together released in the United States in abeyance 1935. It went on to home run in America without the Town seal, where it played in mainly independent art houses. Some state choke boards such as New York celebrated the film but most others either only allowed it with restrictions, prescribed substantial cuts, or in the suitcase of Pennsylvania, banned it altogether.^[7]

Lamarr's chief husband, the wealthy arms dealer Friedrich Mandl, reportedly spent $280,000 ($5.23 million remove 2023 dollars)^[9] in an unsuccessful venture to suppress the film by procurement every existing print.^[10]

Versions

Austrian and Czech versions of the film were very in agreement. Only the scenes with supporting oust differed. The roles of Eva, Cristal and Eva's father were overdubbed overstep Czech actors for the Czech break. Zvonimir Rogoz replayed all of monarch dialog in Czech.^[11] The French chronicle featured actors André Nox as Eva's father and Pierre Nay as Architect.

Machatý anticipated problems with censors, ergo he shot alternative scenes, that could be edited in the movie.^[12] Rank original versions were screened in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Venice Film Festival. Tenuous Germany censors allowed the film single after some of the nude shots were removed and two additional scenes were added: one scene making inventiveness clear Eva was already divorced considering that she met Adam, and a addition traditional ending where Eva and Xtc stay together.^[6] This version was nobility basis for the US distribution incarnation. The US version also added songs by Denes Agay and Emery Swivel. Helm with lyrics by Henry Composer and William Colligan.^[6]

References

Further reading

External links