Ecstasy (1933)

Original title

Extase

Directed by

Gustav Machatý

Genre

drama film, erotic film, romance film, slice of life

Country

Czechoslovakia, Austria

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

15

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman marries an older man but finds no passion. She leaves him and begins a romance with a younger engineer.

passionatemelancholicsensualintimaterestrainedromanticyearningpoignant

What happens

Ecstasy (Czech: Extase; French: Extase; German: Ekstase) is a 1933 Czech erotic romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. Machatý won the award for Best Director for this film at the 1934 Venice Film Festival. The film is about a young woman who marries a wealthy but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. Ecstasy was filmed in three language versions – German, Czech, and French. It is perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse and the female orgasm, although never showing more than the actors' faces. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• The River (1933)
• Faithless Marijka (1933)
• Liebelei (1933)
• Reunion in Vienna (1933)
• The Rakoczi March (1933)
• The Constant Nymph (1933)
• Černé oči, proč pláčete...? (1930)
• Lízin let do nebe (1937)