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Husbands or Lovers

1924 · 56 min

A quiet, expressive silent drama of marital discontent, carried by faces and glances rather than words, with a slow ache of longing and regret.

Overview
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • betrayal
  • identity
  • isolation
  • gender
Places
  • home
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Paul Czinner
Written by
Ossip Dymow, Paul Czinner
Starring
Elisabeth Bergner, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Maria Bard, Nils Edwall, Annie Röttgen, Margarete Kupfer, Karl Platen
Cinematography
Axel Graatkjær, Reimar Kuntze
Runtime
56 min
Country
Germany
Languages
No Language

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