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"Controversial director Ken Russell lavishly recreates the glitzy and decadent atmosphere of the Roaring 20's and the presence of Rudolf Nureyev as Valentino imbues the film with a passion rarely found in Hollywood."
""In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoes to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide - that actor was Rudolph Valentino. Ken Russell brings to life the man known as the first ever movie sex symbol"-- Container."
"The story opens with the super-star actor Rudolph Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films. Freely mixing fact and fiction, director Russell, a man of ideas as well as baroque images, uses Valentino's life to comment on the destrucitve nature of the early Hollywood system and American code of machismo."@en
"Sensationalist exposé of Valentino's rise to fame."@en
"Film biography of the legendary silent movie star Rudolph Valentino."
"The story, written by Russell and Mardik Martin, opens with Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films. Freely mixing fact and fiction, director Russell, a man of ideas as well as baroque images, uses Valentino's life to comment on the destrucitve nature of the early Hollywood system and American code of machismo."@en
"The story opens with Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films."
"La vita di Rodolfo Guglielmi, in arte Rodolfo Valentino, e delle donne, mogli, amanti e colleghe che tra matrimoni maldicenze e pettegolezzi contornarono e segnarono la sua vita dall'iniziale successo del '21 con I quattro cavalieri dell'Apocalisse fino ai deliranti e fastosi funerali che conclusero il suo mito. (Moscati)."@it
"Nureyev interpreta al más famoso y mitificado amante de los años 30. Ken Russell nos cuenta con su peculiar estilo, la leyenda de un divo del cine que enloquecía a las mujeres por su forma de hacer el amor y que murió en circunstancias todavía poco claras."@es
"Biografía de la gran estrella de cine Rodolfo Valentino, desde sus comienzos oscuros actuando en dudosos clubs hasta sus primeros pasos en la gran pantalla, así como sus frecuentes aventuras amorosas."

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"Biographies"
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"Dance"
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"fiction dramatique (fiction)"
"Motion pictures"
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"Drama"
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