Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) and other cinematic behemoths. Long unseen but now on DVD, the picture’s gigantism shows the influence of D. It cost so much to produce that to this day it remains Austria’s most expensive film (allowing for inflation).
In 1922, a Hungarian director working in Vienna dared to make a film titled Sodom und Gomorrha.
Throughout the opening decades of the 20th century, the very phrase “Sodom and Gomorrah” was code for unspeakable pleasures.Įurope was braver than the U.S. It’s less surprising, however, when you consider what a forbidden topic this tale really was, even in the early years of Modernism. It took almost three decades following the invention of motion pictures for Sodom and Gomorrah to reach the silver screen, a surprising fact if you recall the new medium’s zest for titillation.