Synopsis
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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Blind Husbands
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Primary Language
Spoken Language
Alternative Titles
Marits cecs, Mariti ciechi, Frestaren, La Loi des montagnes, 盲目的丈夫们, Blinde Ehemänner, Corazón olvidado
Releases by Date
Theatrical
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USA
01 Jan 1921
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Austria8
Physical
08 Jul 2011
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Netherlands
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Austria
01 Jan 1921
- Theatrical8
Netherlands
08 Jul 2011
- Physical DVD
USA
21 Oct 1919
- Theatrical
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This movie is downright dirty! One can sense how much of a ruckus this must have caused in 1919. Initially it feels cheap...and watching it again I remembered thinking for a moment that Walsh and Ford's debuts seemed so much more sophisticated than this. And maybe they are on a rhythmic level (regarding the cutting and compositions). But here, seeping under the seeming cheap, dime-store narrative (one contempory reviewer called Stroheim "Henry James as dreamt by a pornographer"!) is Stroheim's brilliance in microcosm. Even the cutting and framing seems presentational initially like Griffith, but it succeeds (somehow!) at Straub's high praise of the director: "You see spectacle, but the opposite is felt." But there is no Monte Carlo here: just…
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didn't know what to expect with my first stroheim, but wow, the depth of compositions here is insane, it's like a continually unfurling chamber drama where each relationship between two characters is isolated, but then repeated and present within the scenes of other relationships; scenes unravel in length like a tapestry. it achieves an effect of hyper-realism by having all these layers piled on top of each other: the lives of these people seem impossibly detailed and nuanced, as if their psyches are completely translucent to the viewer, unclouded by morality, free to sin.
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Pro-Tip: If a silent film has no accompanying music, than play Tom Waits in the background on repeat. Great songs to play with Blind Husbands: In The Cold, Cold Ground and Jersey Girl.
Viewed on Amazon Prime.
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The first director's credit for Erich von Stroheim, and it's already got his slightly-unhinged little fingerprints all over it. Stroheim seems like he was just born for Hollywood, and you can tell he loves being in front of the camera. He mugs around here as an absurd little Austrian lieutenant groping his way through an Alpine tourist villa, the sheer goofiness of his pickup artist act helping it to feel more humorous than grotesque. Stroheim is adept at portraying characters that make a first impression as caricature but develop into something a little more grounded, and that's true here. The Lieutenant becomes something of a tragic, pathetic figure in the film's climax, helplessly subject to the judgment of the mountain.…
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Grounded Alpinism
2021 restoration of film seen via temporary online posting from the Bonn Silent Film Festival: www.internationale-stummfilmtage.de/en/home-en
That was a little naive of me. I saw Erich von Stroheim's directorial debut "Blind Husbands" years ago and commented on its surprising restraint for the auteur infamous for clashes with producers Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer over the extravagant budgets and lengths of his productions, including an allegedly 8-hours version of his partially-lost masterpiece "Greed" (1924). Little did I know, or at least failed to mention, that I saw the truncated 1924 re-issue version of the film, a print held by MoMA. There's another surviving print, however, from 1921 that survives in the Austrian Film Museum, which in 2021 combined…
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A lecherous gaze drawn out into a feature-length parable about desire and power. The monstrosity of wanting and to be wanted.
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Top 100 directors Challenge
#85: Eric Von Stroheim
So no manslaughter charges?
The dude might have stolen the girl if he didn't look like a Captain America villain.
The editing is awesome.
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54/100
Stroheim wrote the book, adapted the book, directed it, starred in it plus he's also the editor and producer. That's some real flex especially for a debut. -
One of the most frequent reasons
for divorce is "alienation of
affection" ...And the reason within
the reason is the fact that "the
other man" steps in with his
sincere (or insincere) attentions
just when the husband in his self-
complacency forgets the wooing
wiles of his prenuptial days...
Guilty! says the world condemning
"the other man" ...But what of the
husband?
Yeah, that legit is one stationary block of text intertitle card. And so, it sets the stage for von Stroheim's first feature film, one he directed, wrote, and acted in, and one in which features an adulterous love triangle, because von Stroheim was consistent in his themes. I skimmed through this biography archived at the NY Times, and… -
1919: No more auteurs will emerge in American cinema during this decade.
Erich von Stroheim: hold my beer.What a debut. Writer, director, producer, monocle wearer and star von Stroheim, perhaps growing tired of playing bit parts as evil Germans, decided to make his own film with a similar character but seen through a more morally ambiguous perspective, delving into the very mountainous terrain of human relationships in this incredibly self-confident melodrama set in the Tyrolean Alps. At first glance it seems very similar to what D. W. Griffith and others were doing at the time in regards to framing, editing and the rigid camera set-ups, unsurprising given that Griffith had assisted his entry into the film world, yet there's…
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feels like the blueprint for fucking everything
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My initial impression after watching the astonishing 2021 Austrian restoration is that by 1919 Stroheim had taken a quantum leapfrog forward off the back of Griffith. Of course, I’m known for my immediate overreactions.