Moulin Rouge

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Vladimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg in Moulin Rouge (1928)

Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Dire... Read allParysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $5... Read allParysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

289

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos25

+ 18

More like this

7.5

6.4

7.0

5.8

7.6

6.4

Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge

7.1

Piccadilly

5.4

Champagne

7.7

Lonesome

5.8

Mystery at the Moulin Rouge

7.6

7th Heaven

6.7

The Garden of Eden

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
The first showings of this film, in 1928, were silent with a live music score by Joseph Littau, In 1929 it was re-issued in a shortened version with a score by John Reynders recorded on an optical track. This contained music and a few (rather primitive) sound effects (as was normal at the time, before dialogue became normal). For the complete restoration at full length the 1929 soundtrack was edited and sections duplicated to fill up the length while matching the music to the action, a process requiring 120 music edits.

Crazy credits
Personally directed by E.A. Dupont

Soundtracks
Parysia
Music by John Reynders
Lyrics by André Lénéka and Henry Moreau
Performed by Olga Tschechowa, Jean Bradin and Eve Gray

User reviews9

Review

Featured review

9/10

Olga Tschechowa in a powerful performance

I watched the Grapevine video edition of Moulin Rouge, and their old tapes are not particularly known for excellent video transfers or scores. However after about the first 15 minutes, in which we are treated to some rather frenzied nightlife location shots in Paris, the main characters are finally introduced and the action quickly gets steamy, thanks in no small part to the chemistry between Olga Tschechowa and the male lead, Jean Bradin, which is immediate and compelling.

The story involves a love triangle between mother - daughter - prospective son-in-law. The daughter (Eve Gray) never seems to realize that her fiancée has the hots for her own mother. The audience keeps waiting for the light bulb to go off in her head, but she just charges ahead, completely trusting in her mother and young lover, with dangerous consequences.

Olga Tschechowa (a paramour of Adolph Hitler) struck me very much as almost a carbon copy in looks and acting mannerisms to Pola Negri. In fact I kept visualizing Pola in this role as a I watched Olga. Olga was just as good an actress as Pola; every scene she is in your eye gravitates to her first. Effective use of close-ups and intelligent discourse between the characters, reflected in the title cards, adds to the pleasure of this sultry concoction. If you are into romantic foreign silent films this version of Moulin Rouge will prove enjoyable to you.