CARMEN 1918

The film version of the popular Bizet opera was also Lubitsch's first major production and paved the way for both his own career and that of his leading actress. As the passionate, unfaithful title character, she turns men's heads and drives many a soldier into a frenzy ... Apart from today's hackneyed clichés, it is above all the lust for the forbidden that is celebrated here with relish. (Florian Widegger)