Scene from Ekstase (1933)
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Alternate Names: Hedy Kiesler, 海蒂·拉玛, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Хеди Ламарр, Хеди Кислер, هدی لامار
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Full Biography
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age.
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. This system later became the basis for what is now known as Bluetooth.
Hedy Lamarr
About the Movie: Ekstase (1933)
Release Year: 1933
Nation: Austria, Czechoslovakia
Alternative Title: Ekstase, Ecstasy, Ekstasis, Estasi, Exstase, Extasis, Hurmio, Rhapsody of Love, Symphonie der Liebe, Symphony of Love
Director: Gustav Machatý
Writer: František Halas, Gustav Machatý, František Horký
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Keywords: black and white, nude swimming
Story
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
Summary
Ekstase is a Czech-German drama film from 1933 directed by Gustav Machatý. It explores themes of passion, love, and the constraints of societal expectations through the story of Eva, who struggles to find happiness within the bounds of tradition.