Flesh and the Devil
Dir: Clarence BrownCast: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Marc McDermott
112mins 1926 US U English
Flesh and the Devil
In this silent drama, lifelong school chums Leo and Ulrich are soldiers in the German army. Leo falls in love with Countess Felicitas and courts her, which enrages her husband.
When Leo fights a duel with and kills the Count, he is deployed to Africa for five years as punishment. Leo returns to find that Ulrich has fallen for Felicitas, but she resumes her amorous pursuit of Leo, thus pushing the limits of their friendship.
'Garbo is mesmerising in this wild and heated romance' - David Parkinson, Empire