Ecstasy

Ecstasy (1933)

Extase

Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Date of release
1933-01-20
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (85)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Gustav Machatý

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Austria and Prague

Ecstasy is a 1933 Czech erotic romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. Machatý won the award for Best Director for this film at the 1934 Venice Film Festival.

Production

Ecstasy was filmed in the summer of 1932, with a German language script that contained only five pages. The original prepared script (two previous versions were cancelled) was in Czech, so Lamarr was useful in translating from German to French. After the shooting at Barrandov Terraces in Prague and a pond in Jevany, the crew moved to Dobšiná, Slovakia on 5 July 1932, to shoot the rest of the outdoor scenes.

It was not until August that shooting really started, mostly because of disputes about the French version and French actors. From Dobšiná, short shooting trips of one or two days were made to other places: Topoľčianky (scenes with horses), Khust, Carpathian Ruthenia, and railroad construction Červená skala – Margecany.

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