The Indian Tomb

Starring:Olaf FÃ¸nss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena, Bernhard Goetzke, Lya De Putti, Paul Richter, Georg John, Wolfgang von Schwindt, Max Adalbert, Lewis Brody
Director: Joe May
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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Fritz Lang wrote the script to this exotic epic adventure with the intention of directing it himself, but when producer Joe May (a pioneer of German silent cinema himself) read it, he nabbed it, and did the work proud. Conrad Veidt (the stalking somnambulist of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as a vengeful maharajah with a diabolical plot against his unfaithful wife and her haughty British lover. His plan involves a monumental tomb dedicated to his lost love, a spell-casting yogi (revived from his underground tomb in a riveting prologue), and a world-famous architect (Olaf Fonss), who is secretly whisked away to Bengal. Close behind is his fiancÃ©e Irene (Mia May, the director's wife and frequent star), who follows him to the maharajah's grand palace. With his piercing eyes and gaunt, hawklike face, Veidt cuts a majestic figure and makes a fascinating villain, his menace tempered with a haunted sense of sadness.

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Fritz Lang wrote the script to this exotic epic adventure with the intention of directing it himself, but when producer Joe May (a pioneer of German silent cinema himself) read it, he nabbed it, and did the work proud. Conrad Veidt (the stalking somnambulist of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as a vengeful maharajah with a diabolical plot against his unfaithful wife and her haughty British lover. His plan involves a monumental tomb dedicated to his lost love, a spell-casting yogi (revived from his underground tomb in a riveting prologue), and a world-famous architect (Olaf Fonss), who is secretly whisked away to Bengal. Close behind is his fiancée Irene (Mia May, the director's wife and frequent star), who follows him to the maharajah's grand palace. With his piercing eyes and gaunt, hawklike face, Veidt cuts a majestic figure and makes a fascinating villain, his menace tempered with a haunted sense of sadness.

Description

Joe May's spectacular "The Indian Tomb" captivated audiences in 1921, and was one of the biggest successes of its day. This lavish adventure thriller transported cinemagoers to an atmospheric India of the romantic imagination, with elaborate temples and palaces, exotic yogis and dancing girls, roaring tigers on the prowl and hissing cobras. Thea von Harbou's colorful plot stretches over two feature-length films, with twists and turns worthy of a serial. Ayan, the powerful Maharajah of Eschnapur, has lost his beloved wife, the beautiful Princess Savitri, but not through death. He plots revenge against Savitri and her lover MacAllan, an English officer. Ayan vows to build a tomb to his dead love; he'll supply the mausoleum's occupant. A yogi, Ramigani, prophesies that revenge will ruin the prince's life. Ayan sends the yogi to Europe to hire an architect, Herbert Rowland, who is sworn to secrecy about his commission. Rowland's fiancee Irene follows him to India, and the adventure begins. "The Indian Tomb" features a fantastic star-studded cast, topped by the legendary Conrad Veidt, who has a field day as the charismatic, sadistic Maharajah. Sumptuously photographed by Werner Brandes with a beautiful new score compiled and orchestrated by Eric Beheim, this is the most complete version available.

Customer Reviews:

An Indian epic.......2007-06-20

Though this film runs just over three and a half hours long, the time flew by for me as though it were nothing. Written by the legendary Fritz Lang and his then-wife Thea von Harbou, it begins with an intertitle explaining that when a sleeping yogi in a tomb is awakened from his trance, he is commanded to absolutely obey the one who found him and reanimated him. In this case, Prince Ayan III (Conrad Veidt), the Rajah of Eschnapur, finds Ramigani (Bernhard Goetzke) and orders him to go to Europe to find an architect to construct for him a Taj Mahal-like tomb for his faithless wife Princess Savitri. Ramigani goes to the house of Herbert Rowland, who at first won't hear of returning with him to India, particularly without telling his fiancée Irene Amundsen (Mia May, wife of director Joe May), but before long he comes around and departs with him. Irene's father has called her over to his house to tell her that he feels someone is trying to lure Herbert away from her; she initially thinks that's nonsense, but has her suspicions pinged, so much so that she returns to his house to check things out. Though Ramigani used his powers to take away the letter which Herbert left for her against his orders, Irene finds out anyway that Herbert left with an Indian, and makes up her mind to follow after him. And there the adventure begins.

The story packs in a lot of suspense and drama, with the viewer never knowing what's going to happen next. There are lepers, tigers, crocodiles, chases, mind control, snakes, shootouts, intrigue, the whole nine yards. And though the actors don't really look anything like actual Indians, one still gets the distinct feeling of India, with its culture, religion, history, and architecture, from the picture. The sets and costumes are all lavish and really give the film a sense of time and place. It's also kind of refreshing to see that Herbert and Irene are an older couple, not the typical movie couple in their late teens or early twenties, and while not homely, aren't candidates for the 50 most beautiful people of the year either. (Though some people, both past and present, have lambasted Frau May as being too pudgy or chubby, I didn't notice a weight problem, but then again, I don't think a normal woman is a size six. She looks healthy and natural, not like a stick figure.) While the story starts out with the basic premise of Herbert being taken to India to construct a tomb for the Maharajah, and Irene chasing after him, it soon gets a whole lot more complex. We find out that the woman for whom the tomb is to be built is very much alive, and the Maharajah wants to imprison her in it as punishment for how she cuckolded him with the handsome British officer MacAllan (Paul Richter). MacAllan himself is still in India, and Prince Ayan is determined to get revenge on him as well as his wife. Gradually, Irene and Herbert are drawn more and more into the intrigue and suspense all around them, to where it starts to feel like the point of no return.

1921 was a great year for films, at about the height of the transitional point between the acting and filmmaking styles popular in the Teens and the more natural and complex ones that evolved in the Twenties, and this film is no exception. It's a great epic adventure, and still packs a mighty punch over 85 years later. The suspense and drama are also greatly helped along by a superb musical score and a very nice print. Given how chopped-down it was in its original American release, it's a wonder it survived at all, and in such good condition.

Exotic movie - Good DVD.......2004-12-13

The plot of The Indian Tomb concerns an architect who is summoned to India to build a tomb for a prince's dead love. Since he has just been admiring the Taj Mahal and daydreaming of such an opportunity, he is putty. From the beginning things are creepy. The prince contacts him through a fakir who can transport himself across distances with the power of his mind. The fakir also uses this power to keep the architect from contacting his fiancee to tell her about the trip to India. He is always staring intensely and doing mental magic somewhere else. So we have this very creepy fakir. What is even worse is that we can tell that the fakir is very uncomfortable working for the prince (he is obligated to by tradition and magic). He even directly asks the prince to be released from his obligations.

The prince is great. He has a pit full of pet tigers and we get to see lots of close-ups of them eating meat and roaring. After he shakes hands with the architect he hesitates as if he is going to wipe his hand on his robe. Oh and the best part: That's the prince on the cover. But is that Lil Dagover being menaced by him? No chance that she could be the prince's love. Actually yes, she is the female lead and she doesn't love the prince. The prince explains to the architect that the tomb is for his love, which has died - not his love, who will die. From his character it isn't certain what he might do.

Meanwhile the architect's fiancee is tracking him down. Her woman's intuition has told her trouble is brewing. She ends up causeing as much trouble as she resolves. We don't care - she an the prince are the only ones making things happen.

This particular release of The Indian Tomb is good quality. It has color tinting and the image quality is good. There are some scratches etc, but over all it is good. There is music written for the film that ties into what is going on in the scenes. There aren't any extras on the DVD other than scene selection, but I was watching it for the movie and I liked what I got.

The sets here are great. The exotic Indian setting means we get to see lots of 20's renditions of temples and idols. This film also features elephants and tigers and alligators (supposed to be crocodiles). They put some money into this and it went where it is supposed to go - to the cool looking stuff.

This is a nice little gem and this release does it justice. It is worth taking a chance on if it sounds like something you might like. Buying this is also a vote for more obscure silent films to get released on DVD, so if you are into the genre that might be a consideration.

Libraries with closed video stacks probably shouldn't buy this. This film is not well known, and so it is unlikely that someone will specifically be looking for it. Thea Harbou, who wrote the script, and Conrad Veidt are likely the only routes by which someone would get to this in a card catalog. Libraries with open stacks should consider this DVD. There are some interesting things they are doing with film techniques, particularly how the fakir's telekinesis is shown, which are worth checking out. This is a very nice but not famous movie that someone who stumbles across could love (happened to me).

Simply Splendid and Magnificent!.......2004-11-29

This amazing 4-hour German epic rivals any major Cecil B DeMille or other giant Hollywood production with its marvellous exotic sets, action and drama. In fact, for me this film has extra special appeal due to the supernatural element surrounding the mystical yogi and his powers, whose role actually underpins the entire story. The next major attraction for me are the often quite authentic-looking mogul palaces and Indian temples in this film. Having visited Rajasthan, India and viewed maharajahs' palaces, I was impressed by the work and attention to detail that went into creating the sets for this film. Therefore, visually I found this film most stunning due to its gorgeous Indian-style sets, especially the interiors, and musically, Eric Beheim has compiled the perfect orchestral accompaniment. Apart from these things, the story itself is unusual, unpredictable and of high quality - which one can expect from Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou; the latter's storywriting skills being behind famous classics such as "Metropolis" and "Spies". In this story, based on Thea von Harbou's novel, an Indian prince - brilliantly played by Conrad Veidt - is obsessed with revenge for his wife's unfaithfulness, and commissions an architect to build a tomb to match the Taj Mahal for the still-living princess kept prisoner in the palace. He lures the architect to India through his supernatural yogi servant, who is probably the most striking and enigmatic character in this story. Although it is a long film in two parts which progresses at a steady pace, I enjoyed every minute of it, and I'm sure anyone who appreciates a full and interesting story, particularly one set in exotic locations, will not be bored or disappointed either.

Dare I say... stately.......2002-10-03

Most movie lovers know that to describe a movie as stately is critic jargon for slow and boring. However, it's really the only word I can think of to describe the beginning of this film. The Maharajah of Bengal unearths a slumbering holy man and sends him on a mission: bring back the English architect Herbert Rowland to build a fabulous to tomb to Ayan's dead love. Thus begins part one of The Indian Tomb.

One of the most expensive movies of the 20s, the film was panned by critics of the time and was a box office disappointment. It was unfortunate enough to be both ahead of its time and stuck in the past. The melodramatic plot involving chases, escapes, revenge and all that good stuff seemed positively old fashioned. The sets and special effects were excellent but they simply were not enough to pull in an audience. (What? Good special effects in a silent movie? You'd better believe it. Nothing like today, of course, but no "oh, that's so phoney" moments) Another problem was that American viewers saw the cutdown version. This was meant to be a two-part story but the studios released an extremely abbreviated (and apparently incoherent) version. It's frankly amazing that the entire movie survived intact. But fortunately it did and it is presented in complete form, possibly this is the first time Americans have had a chance to see the whole thing.

What makes this movie distinctly different from most movies of the era is the unusually intelligent heroine (she makes a few mistakes but then so do the guys). Mia May, wife of the director Joe May, plays Irene, the fiancee of the Herbert. American critics of the time made some rather unkind remarks about her age and weight but really, is it so wrong to have a heroine in her late 30s who is not a stick-figure? She is never presented as being 18 and neither is Herbert. I thought the presentation of a more mature couple in this movie to be sweet as well as more realistic.

Of course, not enough can be said about Conrad Veidt's hypnotic portrayal of Ayan. Those who only know Veidt from his roles in Casablanca and the 1940 Thief of Bagdad are in for a treat: a chance to see the talented actor chew scenery as never before as the somewhat deranged Ayan. Bernhard Goetzke, who plays the holy man awoken by Ayan, is both elegant and intelligent. Lya De Putti as the Princess's servant is another independant female character.

I was not as impressed with either Paul Richter or Erna Morena who play MacAllen and Savitri, respectively. Though in all fairness, neither were given as much to do as the other actors.

The film may start a bit slowly but it is always intriguing and after the first half hour it is downright addictive. Unfortunately, I could not watch it all in one sitting (at over three hours, not many people could) It has been nicely restored with a great variety of color tinted scenes. Anyone who does not know how much tints can make a difference in a silent film should check this movie out for that reason alone. The soundtrack is synth but the music is period-accurate.

This movie has gotten better with age and still packs quite a punch to an open-minded audience. As is usual with silents, the viewer needs a bit of time to get "acclimated" but don't let that stand in the way of your enjoying a glorious epic that deserves to finally get some recognition after 80 years.

Consider This Film a Miniseries: Long but Hypnotic.......2001-10-06

I'm not sure I would have had the patience to watch this three and a half hour two-part epic if the print quality and overall way this DVD edition was put together - thank you, David Shephard! - was not top-notch. The film's pristine image quality and evocative musical accompaniment helped generate an hypnotic, dream-like quality to the story. Conrad Veidt's charismatic persona initially attracted to me to this film and, performance-wise, his is the best role in the film. Mia May is a rather aging and plump leading lady; it's easy to believe that she got this role because the director, Joe May, was her husband. The story was written by another married couple, Fritz Lang and his wife, and it's interesting to speculate what the legendary Lang might have done differently had he directed instead of the merely competant May. I'd like to learn where some of the outdoor scenes were filmed because the views are truly spectacular. The indoor sets are also awesome and one can easily forget that this film was made during the German post-war improverishment of the Weimar Republic. Somebody had a lot of money to produce this epic! A different type of film and highly recommended.

Fritz Lang's The Indian Tomb (aka Journey to the Lost City, Part 2)

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Lang's Indian Epic

Fritz Lang's The Indian Tomb (aka Journey to the Lost City, Part 2)
Starring: Debra Paget , Paul Hubschmid , Walter Reyer , Claus Holm , and Valéry Inkijinoff
Director: Fritz Lang
Manufacturer: Fantoma
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ASIN: B00005OCKO
Release Date: 2001-10-16

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In the late 1950s, director Fritz Lang returned to the German cinema, home of his great silent creations Die Nibelungen and Metropolis. His new project was, appropriately, a throwback to the early German days, a two-part cliffhanger originally conceived for the silents. The Indian Tomb is part two, picking up where The Tiger of Eschnapur left off, as a lovesick Maharaja exacts his vengeance. Once you adjust to Lang's measured pacing (and if you accept the variable acting), the movie's bright colors and complicated political machinations take over. Auteurists will recognize Lang's impeccable eye for screen space and his obsessive concern with the price of tempting fate. Even nonauteurists will appreciate the revolt of the underground leper colony and the cobra dance performed by Debra Paget, who wears something less than a bikini. This is melodrama served up without apology by a director more interested in patterns than psychology. --Robert Horton

Description

After more than two decades of exile in Hollywood, master filmmaker Fritz Lang triumphantly returned to his native Germany to direct the lavish two-part adventure tale The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb from a story he had co-authored almost forty years earlier. In the grand tradition of the serialized cliffhanger, this film picks up right where The Tiger of Eschnapur ends. The adventure concludes with a rescue from a sandstorm, a trek through the jungle, a cave of lepers, and a bloody palace rebellion. Together, these films provide the cinematic link between the classic silent serials and the modern action/adventures of Indiana Jones and The Mummy.

Customer Reviews:

Truly dreadful.......2006-09-27

This film is so terrible it perhaps marks Lang's lowest point. From the heights of M and Metropolis he descends to perhaps the worst dialogue, most phoney plot and most absurd depiction of India I have ever seen in a movie. I have been to Rajasthan and Lang's depiction of Udiapur (the actual setting) is a nonsense. Not only do we have well-lit interior caves with shiny, level studio floors and plastic rocks; not only do we have ridiculously paintined images of the gods; not only do we have the most abjectly ridicuous fight scenes; not only do we have plastic crocodiles; not only do we have palm trees (there are none in Rajasthan); not only do we have Siva presented as a goddess - as ludicrous as calling the Virgin Mary a man - but we have the priest of Siva wearing a Vishnaivite tika and spouting total nonsense. The semi-nude temple dance with the wooden snake on strings (clearly visible) is such a mish-mash of Hollywood style lasciviousness and westernized misrepresentation of Indian dancing it's pathetic. I love Lang's early work, but this is a laughable travesty of anything Indian. It's backdrops and scenery are b-movie standard and this film is fit only for the trash heap of movie history.

Very strange and fascinating cult film .......2005-10-29

Second part of Fritz Lang's bizarre epic about Indian mysticism shot for television and cut into two features by the studio (the other part being The Tiger of Eschnapur); it's a brilliantly executed pulpy and humorous masterpiece, with breathtaking color cinematography and elaborate set design which rivals the underworld city in Metropolis. Lang really celebrates the artifice of film, and his uncanny sense for mise-en scene proves his mastery of the craft. It's certainly a strange work and perhaps a bit hackneyed, but one should keep an open mind and sink in to the vivid images and spectacular naive tale of power and magic.

Lang's Indian Epic.......2002-04-05

The American video release of director Fritz Lang's two-part Indian epic has finally arrived. Admittedly, "The Indian Tomb" (1959) is not among Lang's finest achievements, but it remains a visually stunning, imaginative work -- far superior to the slow-paced first installment, "The Tiger of Eschnapur." Except for Debra Paget's exotic beauty, one wishes Lang had assembled a stronger cast for his atmospheric adventure. In addition, the film suffers from some hokey passages involving our ineffectual hero. Still, the film's vivid color photography, architectural compositions and lavish sets are unique in cinema history. Paget's erotic cobra dance, the cave of lepers, and action-filled climax represent Lang at his best. Regardless of its flaws, the director's Indian saga ranks with "Metropolis" (1926) as his most ambitious production. It's a cinematic journey worth taking.

Fritz Lang's Indian Epic (The Tiger of Eschnapur / The Indian Tomb)

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I love Debra Paget!
An Indiana Jones type Indian Adventure, 1960 style
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Fritz Lang's Indian Epic (The Tiger of Eschnapur / The Indian Tomb)
Starring: Debra Paget , Paul Hubschmid , Walter Reyer , Claus Holm , and Luciana Paluzzi
Director: Fritz Lang
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ASIN: B00007L4ME
Release Date: 2003-02-11

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Long dismissed as the last gasp of a great directing career, Fritz Lang's two-part saga of India needs to be rescued from cinema's dustbin. While it has clear limitations, notably the listless actors and shoddy special effects (hard to overlook the fake tiger), this opus is marked by an awesome sense of formal design, immaculate camera composition, and the creeping sense of fate messing up the characters' lives. In the first part, The Tiger of Eschnapur, we delve into the political and personal intrigue that results from a maharaja's infatuation with a temple dancer (sawed-off, sexy Debra Paget). Lang's pacing is deliberate; sometimes the movie resembles an Indiana Jones yarn slowed to a stroll. But as Lang brings the many threads together, the scheme emerges, and the crisp location shooting in India presents a storybook exoticism that, admittedly, has little to do with reality.

In the second part, The Indian Tomb, a lovesick maharaja exacts his vengeance. Auteurists will recognize Lang's impeccable eye for screen space and his obsessive concern with the price of tempting fate. Even non-auteurists will appreciate the revolt of the underground leper colony and the cobra dance performed by Paget, who wears something less than a bikini. This is melodrama served up without apology by a director more interested in patterns than psychology. --Robert Horton

Description

After more than two decades of exile in Hollywood, master filmmaker Fritz Lang triumphantly returned to his native Germany to direct this lavish two-part adventure tale from a story he co-authored almost forty years earlier. Called to India by the Maharajah of Eschnapur, architect Paul Hubschmid falls in love with beautiful temple dancer Seetha (Debra Paget), who is promised to the Maharajah. Their betrayal ignites the ruler's wrath, and the lovers are forced to flee into the desert for a series of spectacular adventures! Featuring breathtaking location photography and nail-biting suspense, this epic is highlighted by Paget's erotic temple dance, a battle to the death with a man-eating tiger, sandstorms, a cave of lepers, and a bloody palace rebellion. Together these films provide a cinematic link between classic silent serials and the modern action thrills of Indiana Jones and The Mummy. Previously available in America as "Journey to the Lost City," a radically condensed 90-minute version, these exotic masterpieces are presented in this specially priced 2-disc boxed set completely restored to their original splendor! (The two films in this set--"The Tiger Of Eschnapur" and "The Indian Tomb"--are also available individually.)

Customer Reviews:

I love Debra Paget!.......2007-01-03

Of course I love Fritz Lang, he was one of the great directors of the 20th century. This is pretty good if ocassionally the low budget peaks through on the sets. The location shooting in India is colorful and wonderful, though.

The great surprise is Debra Paget, an actress I had never paid attention to before. She is fabulous in the movies and her erotic dances, particularly in the second movie, are enough to cause the onset of puberty in a five year old. She is entirely convincing as an Indian princess.

I can recommend the movie for her performance and for the great Saturday afternoon matinee feel to these films. After all, Lang was one of the originators of the cliff hanger serial and this was a return to that style. Great fun!

An Indiana Jones type Indian Adventure, 1960 style.......2006-01-01

As a silent film enthusiast who has enjoyed the German 1921 silent film "The Indian Tomb", written by Fritz Lang and his then-wife Thea von Harbou, I was curious to see this 1959 version of the same story, this time directed by Fritz Lang himself. Although the story is essentially the same and the characters and plots are recognizable, Fritz Lang obviously did a lot of re-writing of the old 1921 screenplay to suit a much different 1959 audience, and I think he succeeded very well. While the original 1921 film is 3 ½ hours long with a more complex and sinister plot, the story has been reworked into two separate films, namely "The Tiger of Eschnapur" and "The Indian Tomb", and has all the hallmarks of a late 1950s, early 60s adventure epic. The quality of these two DVDs is simply excellent, and visually the films are already a delight, being filmed on location in the state of Rajasthan, India - in particular the city of Udaipur, famous for its magnificent palaces which also featured in the James Bond classic, "Octopussy". With real-life Mogul palaces and other striking Indian settings, Lang did not have to go to any great lengths to create a fantasy-like adventure world, not unlike modern-day Indiana Jones movies. Unlike Indiana Jones, however, the story in Lang's Indian Epic is serious: love, jealousy, revenge, intrigues in the royal family, schemes, lepers and a holy man with words of wisdom. The story moves along at a comfortable, steady pace with a good measure of suspense and unexpected turns, along with a nice dose of exotic - and erotic - dancing by Debra Paget. And although fake tigers are always mentioned in connection with "The Tiger of Eschnapur", I would not have noticed if I hadn't heard about it before, as there are plenty of good shots of real, live tigers, and I don't think a one or two second scene of a stuffed tiger or fake cobra should ruin a viewer's overall enjoyment of these two films.

While I would give the story and film quality a 4 ½ - star rating, I was so pleased with this box set in general, the notes on each film inside, the bonus photo gallery and in particular the option of the English-dubbed or original German version (with or without English subtitles) that I'm giving it the full 5 stars. For anyone who speaks German as I do, I'd like to point out that the German language spoken in these two films is absolutely top-class quality and a delight to hear. I'm sure anyone who enjoys 50s and 60s movies will be delighted by this box set and the restored full-length versions of both films (they were previously released in a much condensed version entitled "Journey to the Lost City") and for anyone who has enjoyed the silent 1921 version, this set would surely also be of interest to compare and have a nice change.

Indiana Jones Ancester!.......2005-12-27

I Began to know Fritz Lang with brilliant 1000 eyes of Dr.Mabuse! He was a Genius. Every Single Lang's movie Ive seen was extremely Enjoyable and considered as a masterpiese! Metropolis, Die Nibelungen & ...
But Indian Epic was something else.

metropolis and indiana jones.......2003-04-02

after watching all of fritz lang's films, most of them in black and white, I found myself especially in awe of the color and detail in this dvd....yes, there are strong hints from metropolis: the leper's advance is similar to the movement of the deadly sins and there are complex tunnel passages in both films...as in rancho notorious, the plot deals with hate, murder and revenge; deception and fate also play their strong roles...but it's the way this film looks visually--the colors, costumes, and architecture -- that sets it apart from all the other lang films...it's definitely worth viewing.

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