Asphalt (1929)
Asphalt (1929)
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 1h 34mn | 1,81 Gb
Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Deutsch intertitles with English subs
Genre: Drama | Director: Joe May
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 1h 34mn | 1,81 Gb
Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Deutsch intertitles with English subs
Genre: Drama | Director: Joe May
Else, a beautiful girl enmeshed in the Berlin underworld, gets caught holding stolen jewelry by Albert, a Berlin policeman. He arrests her but she manages to persuade him to follow her to her apartment so she can get some of her possessions, as she is to be evicted the next day. Slowly she begins to see Albert, who is falling in love with her, as a possible way for her to escape the morass of criminality her life has become, but even as she begins to also fall for him, someone from her past shows up, and she finds herself engulfed in a murder.
Outstanding German silent era crime drama; an early film noir about a young traffic officer who gets involved with a femme fatale he has just arrested for stealing a diamond from a jeweler's shop. This spit-curled, dark-haired beauty attempts to use tears, tricks, Cognac, a pillow-laden couch proportioned like a king-sized bed, and finally a black-laced bodysuit/nightie to seduce our officer into letting her off. These two soon become emotionally involved with each other, but the officer is feeling guilt over shirking his duty to arrest her.
The photography in this film is really excellent - the film as a whole is very visual, with lots of facial close-ups, softly filtered lighting along with shadowy rooms and hallways, and an interesting montage at the beginning of the asphalt streets of Berlin and it's fast moving crowds of people and traffic, all shown with interesting overlapped and angled photography. The actors all give excellent, emotional performances. The actress, Betty Amann, who portrays the thief is especially good here, seducing both our officer and the viewer with just her eyes, showing a great range of emotion in close-up. I have seen many, many silent films and I would certainly count this one among the best I've seen.
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Asphalt (1929)
