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Morocco
Why this pick
Shares Sternberg’s dreamlike chiaroscuro, erotic charge, and fascination with power performed through costume, pose, and spectacle; Marlene Dietrich brings the same cool, commanding ambiguity.
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MOVIE1934 1h 44m USA
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marlene Dietrich
Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II
John Lodge
Count Alexei
Sam Jaffe
Grand Duke Peter
Maria Riva
Sophia as a Child
Gavin Gordon
Capt. Gregori Orloff