Recent viewing: miscellaneous disks
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Review: Peter Lorre: Das Doppelte Gesicht (1984)
Director: Harun Farocki
Cast: Peter Lorre,
Peter Lorre
Plot: Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at the time, whilst such success meant recognition, it also weighed on the Hungarian actor as a constrictive burden. Using photographs and film extracts, Das doppelte Gesicht reconstructs the ups and downs of Lorre's career, taking into consideration the economic imperatives and workings of the film industry at the time. (Arnold Hohmann, 1984)
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