Ecstasy
Directed by	Gustav Machatý
Produced by	Moriz Grunhut Gustav Machatý Slavia-Film
Written by	Frantisek Horký Jacques A. Koerpel Gustav Machatý Vítězslav Nezval
Starring	Hedy Lamarr Aribert Mog Zvonimir Rogoz
Cinematography	Hans Androschin Jan Stallich
Editing by	Art Jones
Distributed by	Albert Deane
Release date(s)	December 24, 1940 (USA)
Language	French/German
IMDb profile

Ecstasy (or Extáze in Czech) is an Austrian-Czech film made in 1933 by the Austro-Czech director Gustav Machatý. It stars Hedy Lamarr, credited under her original surname Kiesler, and Zvonimir Rogoz. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... VítÄ›zslav Nezval (IPA: ) (May 26, 1900, Biskoupky – April 6, 1958, Prague) was one of the most prolific Czech writers. ... Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian/Jewish-American actress and communications technology innovator. ... Zvonimir Rogoz (October 10th, 1887 - February 6th, 1988) is Croatian actor. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (359th in leap years). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... See also: 1932 in film 1933 1934 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events British Film Institute founded. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian/Jewish-American actress and communications technology innovator. ... Zvonimir Rogoz (October 10th, 1887 - February 6th, 1988) is Croatian actor. ...

The film was highly controversial in its time largely because of a nude swimming scene. It is also perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse,^{[citation needed]} although never showing more than the actors' faces.

Plot summary

Emil (Zvonimir Rogoz), a precise, orderly older man, carries his happy new bride Eva (Hedy Lamarr) over the threshold of their home. (In a foreshadowing, he has great difficulty opening the lock on the front door, trying key after key.) She is greatly disappointed on her wedding night; he doesn't even come to bed. After living in the unconsummated marriage for a while, she can't bear it any longer and runs back to her father (Leopold Kramer), a horse breeder. A divorce is issued.

One day, she takes her horse riding. She goes skinny dipping, leaving her clothes on the animal, only to have it wander off, attracted by another locked in a corral. She chases after it all over the countryside. The horse is finally caught by Adam (Aribert Mog), the virile young foreman or engineer of a road construction gang. Seeing this, she hides in the bushes, where he finds her. At first, she is ashamed of her nudity, but then she glares at him in defiance. He gives her back her clothes. When she tries to leave, she hurts her foot. At first, she resists his efforts to help, then accedes. Skinny dipping, or skinny-dipping is swimming naked. ...

That night, she can't stop thinking about him. Finally, she goes to his isolated residence. After some hesitation, they embrace and spend the night together. Her pearl necklace is removed and she forgets to take it with her the next morning.

When she returns home, she finds an unwelcome visitor, her ex-husband, who has been waiting for her all night. He tries to reconcile with her, but she tells him that it is too late. He leaves.

By chance, while driving away, he encounters his rival. Adam guides him through the construction and asks for a ride into town. On the way, he shows the necklace, which Emil recognizes. Emil considers driving into an approaching train at a crossing, but thinks better of it.

That night, he sits alone in a hotel room, while a fly tries futilely to get out through a closed window and several others are shown trapped in flypaper. Downstairs, Adam and Eva are dancing when Emil shoots himself. Adam does not know of the connection between Emil and Eva, and she does not tell him. Flypaper is paper coated with an extremely sticky substance that traps flies and other flying insects when they land upon it. ...

The young couple had planned to take the train to Berlin. While waiting for it at the station, Adam falls asleep and a distraught Eva takes a different one without him. Adam returns to his work, while a brief scene shows Eva happy with a baby.

External links

• Ecstasy at the Internet Movie Database