Word: graumont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these columns to attempt anything so hollowly pretentious as a "criticism" of Graumont's superb film, "Power." Suffice it to say that this picture comes mighty close to marking the very peak of cinema achievement. Lion Feuchtwanger's magnificent novel "Macht" has been worked into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed...
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