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| Directed by | Gustav Machatý |
| Written by | Jacques A. Koerpel |
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| Story by | Robert Horký |
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| Edited by | Antonín Zelenka |
| Music by | Giuseppe Becce |
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| Distributed by | Slaviafilm (CS) Eureka Productions (US) |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
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| Box office | $1.5 million (US rentals)[1] |
Ecstasy (Czech: Extase; French: Extase; German: Ekstase) is a 1933 Czech erotic romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz.[2] Machatý won the award for Best Director for this film at the 1934 Venice Film Festival.
The film is about a young woman who marries a wealthy but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. Ecstasy was filmed in three language versions – German, Czech, and French. It is perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual intercourse and the female orgasm, although never showing more than the actors' faces.
- ^ "'Ecstasy' $1,500,000 in 10 Years in America". Variety. 3 October 1945. p. 13.
- ^ Paul Brenner (2013). "Ecstasy (1933)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.