Films byTexts by 1933
Article FR
14.04.2021
Fantômas I

Tout le surréalisme est au service de Fantômas.
C’est le seul être au monde avec qui
J’aurais aimé me faire photographier à la foire.

FILM
Design for Living
Ernst Lubitsch, 1933, 91’

A woman does not want to decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to a “gentleman’s agreement”, to try living together in a platonic relationship.

 

Gilda: It’s true we had a gentleman’s agreement, but unfortunately, I am no gentleman.

FILM
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Fritz Lang, 1933, 122’

Locked away in an asylum for a decade and teetering between life and death, the criminal mastermind Doctor Mabuse has scribbled his last will and testament: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime.