Directed by ROUBEN MAMOULIAN
Starring MARLENE DIETRICH, BRIAN AHERNE, LIONEL ATWILL
Blu-ray/DVD
Released 3 JAN 2020
A figure like that will get you into trouble if you’re not careful,” is the first thing that Lily (Marlene Dietrich) is told in The Song of Songs, a surprisingly racy pre-Code romantic melodrama directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Arriving in Berlin naive and knowing no-one, Lily is met immediately by a suite of suitors, all of whom project onto her a personality that she is not initially able, or willing, to create for herself. Courted first by Richard (Brian Aherne), a sculptor that she is convinced to pose nude for, she instead marries Baron von Merzbach (Lionel Atwill), who is obsessed with her from the moment they meet. Richard loves her, but, as an artist, is scared…