72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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WEGE DES SCHRECKENS

MIHALY KERTÉSZ
Synopsis
Restoration of two early features by Michael Curtiz (the other is Der Junge Medardus), made in Austria for Sascha-Film. Few of the Hungarian-born director's Austrian films survive, but the number is growing thanks to the Lumière Project (...). The Way of Terror, a rambling melodrama with some incredible plot twists, details the vicissitudes that befall Lucy, a poor girl (played by the director's then wife, Lucy Doraine, who starred in many of his early silents), who survives being unjustly accused of theft, a spectacular train wreck, and marriage to a dissolute millionaire, to finally find happiness with her true love. (...) Both films were found at the Cinémathèque Française. (The Lumière Project. The European Film Archives at the Crossroads)
Director
MIHALY KERTÉSZ
Cast
Lucy Doraine, Alphons Fryland, Max Devrient
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