"Ecstasy"
1933
Directed by Gustav Machaty

This unjustly neglected film has suffered from the notoriety of its nude scene with Hedy Lamarr: the Pope denounced it, Hitler banned it, American distributors censored it and Hedy's millionaire German munitions maker husband tried to buy up all the prints and destroy them. Hedy plays a child bride with an impotent husband who has an affair but refuses to go away with her lover when the husband commits suicide. Notable for its use of location sound and its very stylish, lyrical eroticism and images that beg psychoanalytic interpretation. Minimal English dialog.
75 minutes.