A retrospective of the seven legendary collaborations between filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and actress Marlene Dietrich has recently begun at the Romanian Cinematheque, a project signed by the “Active Archive”. Amongst them, “Shanghai Express”, a decadent and sultry bauble, unbeatable in terms of orientalist fascination.

Victor Morozov

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Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.

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