Moulin Rouge (1928)

Director
E.A. Dupont

Main cast
Olga Tschechowa; Eve Gray; Jean Bradin; Georges Tréville; Marcel Vibert

Genres
Music, Drama

Description
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.


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