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Madame Du Barry (1919)

Release Date: 01/01/1919
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Historical film
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Emil Jannings, Willard Louis, Hector V. Sarno, Herschel Mayall

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Synopsis

Before he became world-famous for his sophisticated sex farces, Ernst Lubitsch was primarily a director of outsized German "spectaculars." One such was Madame Du Barry, an operatic version of the life, loves and death of the legendary 18th-century French courtesan. Pola Negri plays DuBarry, who sleeps her way to the court of King Louis XV (Emil Jannings), ultimately becoming his mistress. Comes the revolution, and the rabble demands DuBarry's head. This gives Negri plenty of opportunity for strenuous histrionics as she's led to the guillotine. Small wonder that this film was retitled Passion for its American release.

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