
1938
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Verwehte Spuren (Original Title)
Seraphine Lawrence and her mother Madeleine travel from Canada to the World Expo in Paris in 1867. They're staying in different hotels and Seraphine's mother goes missing. But this is not a simple matter of a missing person: all traces of Madeleine's visit to Paris are expunged -- visa stamps have disappeared, too and the police aren't much help.
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The Lady Vanishes, 1938, Great Britain
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Another Veit Harlan’s masterpiece. Please, pay attention to the innovative/revolutionary scene when the mirror in Seraphine’s hotel room magically turns into a cinema screen in which Seraphine watches the evening she has spent with Dr. Morot. Having replayed her memories of Dr. Morot in the mirror, Seraphine blows out several candles. One might also say that she blows out her mother’s life candles. Its an emotionally devastating moment. This scene was “borrowed” by Irving Pichel in “Tomorrow is forever”. Indeed, there was a similar, but simpler moment in the 1933 American film “Baby Face.” There, the role of a mirror was played by a gramophone record.
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