1927 · drama · silent · romance
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst1h 53m1927
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
Our read: The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · silent · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / silent, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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