The Man Without Desire (1923)

Directed by

Adrian Brunel

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man loses his ability to feel desire. The film follows his detached journey through life as he tries to understand what is missing.

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What happens

The Man Without Desire is a 1923 British silent film fantasy drama, directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello, who also co-produced the film along with Miles Mander. The film was Brunel's feature-length directorial debut and has been described as "one of the stranger films to emerge from Britain in the 1920s". The film's theme of loss of sexual desire, and by implication impotence, was exceptionally frank for its time; oddly, however, it appears to have been passed for release without interference by the British film censors, who at this time had a reputation for extreme zealousness where sexual matters in film were concerned. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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