Gibraltar
Among the pioneers in the history of cinema, Erich von Stroheim is undoubtedly one of those who strived the most to invent his own myth. This hero of another time, who seemed to carry the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on his shoulders, was a remarkable inventor of forms, creating from his very first silent films gems of narration, carried by a breathtaking art of editing. Although he often acted in the films he directed, it was Greed, his great work in which he did not act, that made him the first cursed filmmaker. No version of this film corresponds exactly to the film he had made, which was quickly butchered. With the advent of talking pictures, he became a simple actor (of genius) crossing with his legendary silhouette countless films.
In 1938, an English officer at the Gibraltar base poses as a traitor to everyone, including his fiancée, in order to foil terrorist maneuvers.
Fedor Ozep
Fedor Ozep was a Russian director and screenwriter. He began his film career in Russia, as a screenwriter alongside the director Yakov Protazanov. He directed his first film in 1925 with Boris Barnet. In 1928, he left the USSR for Germany, where he made a film, and then found refuge in France in 1933 where he made five films. When war broke out, he was arrested, managed to escape, and settled in the United States where he made a single film. He made his last three films in Quebec, and died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills in 1949.
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