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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "unrequited love" (22)

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The Doll (Die Puppe)

Ernst Lubitsch (director/lead/writer)
Kurt Richter (art-director/costume-designer)
Theodor Sparkuhl (cinematographer)
Hanns Kräly (writer)
E.T.A. Hoffmann (author)
A.E. Willner (author)
Ossi Oswalda (lead)
Hermann Thimig (lead)
Victor Janson (lead)
Gerhard Ritterband (lead)
Jakob Tiedtke (lead)
Max Kronert (lead)
PAGU (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1919
Minutes: 64

This is how a fairy tale should be told: lots of laughs, spiced with a few caustic truths, encompassing no moral at all, if you wish. Or, perhaps, a simple moral that is as easy to discard as it is to swallow (Another tale of gender role rejection: is this the sequel to I Dont Want To Be A Man? ). Multiple viewings are rewarding, as nothing is truly background - the gags are everywhere. It's a musical without sound that's an ensemble showcase, where everyone puts in a first-rate comic performance no matter how small the part - even the horses.

Featured elements:

: abuse; bride bounty; chase; comedy; comedy of manners; dance; family; fantasy; farce; flood de femmes; gold digger; identity mix-up; mama's boy; master-disciple; metatheatre; religion; romance; screwball comedy; servitude; slapstick; social commentary; unrequited love

Red Heroine (紅俠)

Wen Yi-Min/文逸民 (director/lead)
Shang Guan-Wu/尚冠武 (director/lead)
Devil Music Ensemble (music)
Fan Xue-Peng/范雪朋 (lead)
Chu Shao-Chuen/朱少泉 (lead)
Youlian Film/友聯影片 (production)

Language: Silent, Chinese and English titles, released in 1929, month unknown
Minutes: 95

Slow moving, baffling English titles, and a flying heroine who still must climb up walls. but worth watching for its grand scale, tasteful scoring of 'Chinese traditional-style contemporary songs' and, of course, the scantily-clad ladies.

Featured elements:

: female avenger; fighting; rescue; revenge; unrequited love; zero to hero

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