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Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

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Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)
DVD9 + DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6100 kbps - 6400 kbps | 9.4Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English, German
Full time : 02:44:00 | Czechoslovakia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, Germany | Drama, Romance, Documentary

MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer called Hedy Lamarr "the most beautiful girl of the century." A psychological portrait of glamour star Hedy Lamarr who became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen with her appearance in the Austrian/Czech film EKSTASE. She then had an extraordinary career in more than 25 Hollywood films and don't forget her historic patent for a torpedo guided system from 1942 which serves today as the basis for mobile phones.

The documentary of Donatello & Fosco Dubini contains interviews with Mickey Rooney, Lupita Kohner, Kenneth Anger and many other personal friends of Hedy.
The 2DVD set also offers Hedy Lamarr's legendary scandal film EKTASE in an uncut version and clips by Gustav Machaty, and Hedy by Andy Warhol.

Disc 1 : The Documentary
Disc 2 : The Film

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6100 kbps
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English, German
01:19:00 | Canada, Switzerland, Germany | Documentary

Told through interviews with film historians and people who knew her, Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) offers a workmanlike biography of the rise and fall of a leading lady of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna, Austria on November 9, 1914, she achieved international notoriety for appearing nude and simulating an orgasm in the Austrian-Czech production Ekstase (Ecstasy, 1933), following which she married the first of her six husbands, Fritz Mandl, a prominent Austro-fascist arms dealer.
With the collapse of her first marriage, Kiesler signed a contract with MGM, changed her name to Hedy Lemarr, and immigrated to Hollywood. Beginning with Algiers in 1938, she made a dozen films for MGM working opposite the likes of James Stewart, Spencer Tracy and William Powell. However, Lemarr developed a reputation for not wanting to work, turning down leads in Gaslight, Casablanca, and other films that would have solidified her place at the forefront of Hollywood's leading ladies.
Let go from MGM in 1944, Lamarr worked independently on a number of films, a couple of which she also bankrolled. Though she continued to make movies until 1958, the apex of her post-MGM career was Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 epic Samson and Delilah opposite Victor Mature. Financial problems, shoplifting charges, and treatment for nervous exhaustion finally ended her declining career, and she moved to New York City, and later to Florida where she died on January 19, 2000.
Filmmakers Donatello & Fosco Dubini, and Barbara Obermaier construct their workmanlike 85-minute biography from new interviews and from an extended German-language interview conducted with Ms. Lemarr in 1970. The picture that emerges is of a woman that was bright but deeply troubled, who left a wake of failed marriages and estranged children behind, and died a recluse.

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)


Directors: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini, Barbara Obermaier
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Jan-Christopher Horak, Lupita Tovar, Hans Janitschek, Marvin Paige, Jan Rooney, Mickey Rooney, Maria Wrigley, James Loder, Robert Rodenburg, Robert Lantz, Peter Shen, Kenneth Anger, Arlene Roxbury, Pete

Bonus Material
As with most all releases from Edition Filmmuseum, Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star is packed with extras across two discs. Along with the feature film, disc one includes an additional 13-minute interview with Hollywood hairdresser Eric Root about Hedy Lemarr; various documents, photos and filmography of Lamarr; and trailers for this and two other documentaries from Donatello & Fosco Dubini: Jean Seberg: American Actress (1995) and Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into the Mind of P. (2001).
Outshining the main feature itself is the complete 79-minute cut of Ekstase (Ecstasy, 1933) provided on disc two. A landmark film for its nudity and simulated orgasm, it's the tale of a newlywed who has an adulterous romance culminating in the suicide of her estranged, impotent husband and herself. The image looks to be recently restored and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.14:1 with removable English subtitles. Disc two also includes a gallery of 34 stills and two essays about Ekstase

IMDb

Fortunately, this documentary is not as biased as many others about Hollywood stars. This is not a director/writer telling you his opinion on "this is how XYZ really was", omitting everything that doesn't fit into such a limited frame. Instead, many contemporaries of Hedwig Kiesler tell their memories which are often contradictory, but you can make your own guess on who is the most believable witness. Excerpts from a 1970 interview with the lady herself give an even better impression of the difficult kind of person she apparently was. Naturally, there are also excerpts from her movies, some of which I have not watched yet ("Lady of the Tropics", "His Majesty King Ballyhoo", "White Cargo"), tempting glimpses! The documentary leaves you with a sad feeling that in the end, it's the cruelty of time that we all must age and fade away - certainly Hedy Lamarr wasn't spared and met a lonely demise. Well researched documentary fans shouldn't miss.
~ unbrokenmetal

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Ekstase (1933)
DVD9 + DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6400 kbps
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English, German
01:25:00 | Czechoslovakia, Austria | Drama, Romance

Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Director: Gustav Machaty
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz, Leopold Kramer, Emil Jerman, Jirina Steimarova, Bedrich Vrbsky, Jirina Stepnickova, Antonin Kubovy, Karel Macha-Kuca, Pierre Nay, Andre Nox, Eduard Slegl, Jan Svitak, Ladislav Bohac, Comedian Harmonists

IMDb

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)

Hedy Lamarr – Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2006) + Ekstase (1933)