Word: lucrecia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lucrecia Borgia. The incestuous love imputed by historians to Cesare Borgia for his sister, Lucrecia, is perfumed to meet censorship requirements by making him her cousin. This change and the reason for it are naively explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...