Word: lisaveta
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Tonio (Jean-Claude Brialy) agonizes deliciously over his unrequited love for blue-eyed Inge, the cool blonde of his dancing-school class. Dark-eyed Lisaveta (Nadja Tiller), an art student whom he visits on a poetry-writing trip to Italy, is far more responsive. But Lisaveta's bohemian ways repel him; when she invites him to a costume ball, he politely refuses and dozes on her sofa while he waits for her to come home...
...Director Rolf Thiele seems to have been trying to make like Ingmar Bergman, with his period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately, is not so much Mann as it is mannered...
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