Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES Screening in MoMA's Film in the Sculpture Garden Series
/Advertised as “the first million-dollar movie” when it was released in 1922, Erich von Stroheim’s FOOLISH WIVES offered American audiences a sweeping vision of European decadence, unforgettably embodied by the director himself in his starring performance as Count Sergius Karamzin, a phony Russian aristocrat who bilks the naïve tourists of Monte Carlo with the help of his two dubious “cousins” (Mae Busch and Maude George). Marking the film’s centennial, this will be the New York premiere of a major new restoration of this silent classic, produced by MoMA and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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