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The emperor of an imaginary nation goes for a stroll and meets a shepherdess. He finds love, but he also finds torment at the hands of those he's oppressed. The title may come from the opening line of “The Communist Manifesto,” but A SPECTRE HAUNTS EUROPE is in fact one of the earliest adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, preceded only by Fritz Lang and Otto Rippert's THE PLAGUE IN FLORENCE three years earlier. This beautifully atmospheric film was shot in Crimean locations by the great cameraman Boris Savalyev, who would later shoot Dovzhenko's ZVENIGORA. With Vasili Kovrigin, co-star of DESERTER by Pudovkin.
Presented with live piano accompaniment by William O'Meara
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