Strange Fascination
Pianist Paul Marvan is sponsored by wealthy widow Diana Fowler in America. He marries dancer Margo, straining his relationship with Diana. Facing financial troubles, he tries to collect insurance by intentionally injuring himself.
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"A well directed, well written and sad film like this calls to mind the works of Max Ophüls and Stefan Zweig, it's the same kind of deep melancholy pervading the whole work, giving it a dimension of bottomless despair. Josef von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" bringing Marlene Dietrich to Hollywood also comes to mind, it's the same kind of story, an accomplished master in his field is brought down by his own strange fascination with a cheap nightclub dancer, who actually originally is intent on bringing him down and sabotaging his concert, but instead she gets a kick out o..."
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Final film of Maria Bibikov.
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Pianist Paul Marvan is sponsored by wealthy widow Diana Fowler in America. He marries dancer Margo, straining his relationship with Diana. Facing financial troubles, he tries to collect insurance by intentionally injuring himself.