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1 00:00:11,755 --> 00:00:17,046 The Inhuman Woman

2 00:00:21,213 --> 00:00:29,171 A fantasia by Marcel L'Herbier

3 00:00:53,671 --> 00:00:56,713 Here, overlooking the city,

4 00:01:16,088 --> 00:01:22,296 is the mansion of Claire Lescot, famous singer, and unique woman

5 00:02:41,171 --> 00:02:48,963 Her riches release her from banality. Claire Lescot

6 00:02:49,255 --> 00:02:56,421 She holds an "international" salon, where she meets with notable personalities of the world.

7 00:03:19,588 --> 00:03:25,838 In her fancy she invites a famous clown, academic, a former minister

8 00:03:26,130 --> 00:03:32,296 a boxer, an industrialist, as well as

9 00:03:40,963 --> 00:03:45,796 Frank Mahler, a powerful businessman

10 00:03:56,005 --> 00:04:01,171 Kranine, "the Apostle", with his theory of the "humanitarian"

11 00:04:14,463 --> 00:04:22,588 ...a practitioner of despotism, the maharajah Djorah of Nopur...

12 00:04:50,921 --> 00:04:57,255 Among all those admirers, there is a hidden rivalry...

13 00:04:57,588 --> 00:05:03,546 Each dreams of possessing this famous woman

14 00:05:03,838 --> 00:05:08,588 whose triumphs have not reduced their loneliness.

15 00:05:33,171 --> 00:05:34,588 Concert... the protests

16 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,296 Claire Lescots comeback threatens to cause an uproar.

17 00:05:38,588 --> 00:05:44,338 The singers upcoming marriage to Frank M.lh.r has just been announced.

18 00:05:44,671 --> 00:05:49,630 He "only" has twelve important venues in the United States.

19 00:05:49,963 --> 00:05:53,921 This announcement, and the strange maneuvers behind it, have upset certain artists.

20 00:05:54,213 --> 00:05:57,546 Her upcoming recital will have an unexpected chorus of protests.

21 00:06:24,130 --> 00:06:25,755 At last! Claire...

22 00:06:50,963 --> 00:06:57,255 Even her closest friends call her "The Inhuman Woman"

23 00:07:42,713 --> 00:07:49,421 In this privileged court the most secret things can be overheard...

24 00:07:55,463 --> 00:08:02,546 ...the servants wear a mask to make them deaf ...and grinning.

25 00:08:56,130 --> 00:09:04,380 A final guest is late... Claire decides not to wait.

26 00:10:10,088 --> 00:10:11,880 The late guest...

27 00:11:18,713 --> 00:11:24,630 ...a young engineer, with a passion of mechanical sports

28 00:11:24,921 --> 00:11:28,421 and the magic of modern science...

29 00:12:55,005 --> 00:13:05,546 Claire, with her glory, power, mystery, deeply impresses the young admirer...

30 00:13:05,838 --> 00:13:10,630 does he dare enter so late?

31 00:14:12,255 --> 00:14:17,630 "Yes, after my two concerts, I have decided to leave.

32 00:14:17,921 --> 00:14:21,713 I will take a trip around the world alone...

33 00:14:38,088 --> 00:14:44,713 ...unless something detains me here..."

34 00:15:03,838 --> 00:15:06,046 SOMETHING

35 00:15:11,296 --> 00:15:12,838 Something

36 00:15:23,838 --> 00:15:28,171 SOMETHING

37 00:15:39,130 --> 00:15:40,838 SOMETHING?

38 00:15:42,296 --> 00:15:43,338 WHAT?

39 00:15:44,130 --> 00:15:46,046 SUCCESS?

40 00:15:49,005 --> 00:15:51,255 LOVE?

41 00:15:55,380 --> 00:15:56,838 The unexpected?

42 00:16:15,546 --> 00:16:21,546 She is leaving! He must speak to her now.

43 00:16:21,838 --> 00:16:25,630 What would keep her there?

44 00:17:00,796 --> 00:17:04,713 "Why this trip? Why not go to America?

45 00:17:05,005 --> 00:17:10,380 There you may do as you please. I offer you all my theaters."

46 00:17:28,005 --> 00:17:36,588 "NO... thank you... I am only interested in what I can conquer!"

47 00:18:42,713 --> 00:18:45,421 Worried about Claire's departure, "The Apostle" also makes a proposal.

48 00:18:55,046 --> 00:18:58,421 "The wheel of society is always turning.

49 00:18:58,713 --> 00:19:02,338 For a woman of action such as you,

50 00:19:02,630 --> 00:19:05,671 what could be better than the PROGRESS OF HUMANITY!

51 00:19:15,421 --> 00:19:20,921 ...our movement advances in Mongolia.

52 00:19:21,213 --> 00:19:26,671 Imagine the role you can play... there."

53 00:20:54,546 --> 00:21:00,088 "Your humanity leaves me cold;

54 00:21:00,380 --> 00:21:05,505 only superior beings interest me."

55 00:21:54,921 --> 00:22:01,088 While Claire had provided for entertainments...

56 00:22:31,755 --> 00:22:33,671 Djorah...

57 00:23:38,213 --> 00:23:41,713 "... A "wreath"?

58 00:23:42,046 --> 00:23:48,463 ...I'm not dead yet! ...Kill me first!"

59 00:24:35,546 --> 00:24:43,671 Claire's indifference exasperates the impatient Einar...

60 00:25:27,463 --> 00:25:33,421 "I do not want you to leave"

61 00:25:48,713 --> 00:25:52,963 "... because I..."

62 00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:16,130 And Soon...

63 00:27:26,546 --> 00:27:30,546 they are playing with fire...

64 00:28:13,963 --> 00:28:18,213 "I am tired of quarelling...

65 00:28:18,505 --> 00:28:25,088 I need your strength ...for me alone"

66 00:28:33,463 --> 00:28:36,463 "... if you refuse..."

67 00:28:40,255 --> 00:28:43,171 "... I will kill myself!"

68 00:29:05,005 --> 00:29:09,380 "If you can destroy your life so easily,

69 00:29:09,671 --> 00:29:13,838 it wasn't worth much to begin with."

70 00:31:55,505 --> 00:32:00,005 Claire's irony sharpens Einar's desperation.

71 00:33:24,463 --> 00:33:31,588 It has been reported... that our great singer Claire Lescot

72 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:39,171 has finally accepted the crown that a charming maharajah has offered her.

73 00:34:41,130 --> 00:34:44,296 Without you this world is odious to me...

74 00:34:44,588 --> 00:34:48,796 one turn of the wheel will cast me into the other world.

75 00:35:50,421 --> 00:35:56,171 Ignoring all Claire agreed to sing

76 00:40:12,130 --> 00:40:16,088 Without you this world is odious to me...

77 00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:21,005 one turn of the wheel will cast me into the other world.

78 00:42:30,005 --> 00:42:33,796 A little farm girl, an "innocent"...

79 00:45:22,213 --> 00:45:28,255 It is - already - the morning... Claire has just learned...

80 00:45:41,546 --> 00:45:47,713 ...The search was in vain. The body has been lost in the water...

81 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:37,505 Tonight - Claire Lescot -

82 00:47:37,796 --> 00:47:45,213 Vocal Recital Modern Music

83 00:47:55,588 --> 00:48:01,130 "... She will not sing, I think, after that!"

84 00:48:08,463 --> 00:48:14,671 He loved the Beauty too much... ...and that is what has killed him.

85 00:48:14,963 --> 00:48:19,296 Einar Norsen, a young engineer who, yesterday afternoon,

86 00:48:19,588 --> 00:48:23,296 left Claire's house, was found dead (voluntarily, they say),

87 00:48:23,588 --> 00:48:28,838 after crashing his car down a fatal slope.

88 00:48:47,338 --> 00:48:55,546 ..."the Apostle" prepares his part in the downfall of someone who frustrated his personal ambition.

89 00:49:32,005 --> 00:49:36,963 "Lets punish this creature who has insulted humanity...

90 00:49:37,255 --> 00:49:41,213 We meet tonight, at her show."

91 00:50:15,255 --> 00:50:19,880 Tauberger Theater Manager Champs Elysees

92 00:50:20,171 --> 00:50:24,796 Unable to sing tonight reimburse box office from personal income

93 00:50:29,088 --> 00:50:43,588 This renunciation, dictated by social conventions creates a moment of poise.

94 00:51:03,671 --> 00:51:13,046 But her reason rebels against her sadness... Was it a betrayal of her duty to serve her art?

95 00:51:13,338 --> 00:51:18,796 Must she disappoint her audience?

96 00:51:19,088 --> 00:51:23,755 Out of fear of the murmurings...

97 00:51:24,046 --> 00:51:31,130 Out of cowardice of the sentimental hypocrisy of humanity?

98 00:52:15,130 --> 00:52:22,630 "Rumor has it that you will not sing this evening... Is this true?..."

99 00:52:32,921 --> 00:52:36,880 "... it is wrong... I will sing this evening..."

100 00:52:59,088 --> 00:53:05,546 Everywhere, little by little, the calumny slowly spreads.

101 00:53:31,838 --> 00:53:34,255 He loved the Beauty too much ...and that is what has killed him

102 00:53:34,546 --> 00:53:36,046 Einar Norsen, a young engineer who, yesterday evening,

103 00:53:36,338 --> 00:53:37,713 left Claire's house, was found dead (voluntarily, they say),

104 00:53:38,005 --> 00:53:39,963 thanks to a fall down a fatal slope.

105 00:53:45,130 --> 00:53:54,005 "This Lescot, what an outrageous life! She should be locked up!"

106 00:54:20,296 --> 00:54:28,963 A young engineer commits suicide for an artist.

107 00:54:32,755 --> 00:54:37,588 "She shouldn't be forgiven... a woman without guts!"

108 00:54:50,088 --> 00:54:51,255 In the evening

109 00:55:28,255 --> 00:55:36,255 ...The audience swells, shaken by the tragedy and the scandal

110 00:56:38,671 --> 00:56:41,796 Already the show began

111 00:56:59,296 --> 00:57:03,171 among the last to arrive

112 00:58:01,213 --> 00:58:07,838 The ballet is ending. The theater is packed.

113 00:59:11,671 --> 00:59:16,463 After a brief intermission, Claire appears

114 00:59:21,588 --> 00:59:27,130 Now a curious murmurs greets Claire's entrance

115 01:00:02,005 --> 01:00:04,380 Suddenly Kranine attacks

116 01:00:37,921 --> 01:00:46,588 The entire theater rises up for or against this "inhuman" woman...

117 01:01:15,838 --> 01:01:18,671 ...Who boldly holds her head up to them...

118 01:02:44,546 --> 01:02:48,463 ...Her triumph is complete.

119 01:03:49,296 --> 01:03:51,838 And while the theater empties?

120 01:05:11,546 --> 01:05:14,713 "No... For no one!"

121 01:07:10,713 --> 01:07:17,630 "I would like to speak to you... somewhere else - about Einar Norsen..."

122 01:08:24,005 --> 01:08:31,130 "They just found his horribly mutilated body..."

123 01:08:53,921 --> 01:08:59,880 "To legally identify the body, two witnesses are required

124 01:09:00,171 --> 01:09:02,963 Please be the second witness..."

125 01:09:17,421 --> 01:09:24,546 "In your home... tomorrow... at seven..."

126 01:10:01,005 --> 01:10:05,713 At the appointed time

127 01:11:25,671 --> 01:11:31,463 Towards the strange laboratory where Einar Norsen's body lies...

128 01:12:24,463 --> 01:12:27,546 Claire... weak from shock...

129 01:14:00,963 --> 01:14:04,963 ...unexpected music... hateful...

130 01:15:04,671 --> 01:15:13,588 in this tortured atmosphere, Claire is increasingly... haunted...

131 01:15:57,380 --> 01:15:59,130 suddenly the wind...

132 01:17:22,296 --> 01:17:29,963 when she finally gives vent to the Secret of her suffering...

133 01:18:24,005 --> 01:18:26,130 suddenly

134 01:21:17,338 --> 01:21:20,880 "please forgive this... mystification..."

135 01:21:24,380 --> 01:21:33,588 "I intended to die when I left your home, but I remembered your saying"

136 01:21:42,671 --> 01:21:48,630 If you can destroy your life so easily, it wasn't worth much to begin.

137 01:22:07,296 --> 01:22:17,796 "And then I wanted them to think me dead in order to discover what you kept hidden..."

138 01:22:39,088 --> 01:22:41,796 "You don't know anything more than that!"

139 01:22:58,463 --> 01:23:06,546 "I know you're here! Otherwise, you would never have come!"

140 01:23:23,088 --> 01:23:26,671 "Yes! I know something more...

141 01:23:32,921 --> 01:23:39,130 "Something here will make you cancel your trip."

142 01:23:53,963 --> 01:24:02,380 While, disarmed, Claire smiles at this mystery, outside Djorah...

143 01:24:51,630 --> 01:24:53,046 DANGER OF DEATH

144 01:24:55,921 --> 01:25:00,296 "Beware! This device is dangerous..."

145 01:25:21,546 --> 01:25:25,463 "Until tomorrow... here..."

146 01:25:58,630 --> 01:26:04,380 The prince's jealousy increases...

147 01:26:48,963 --> 01:26:54,421 Claire wants to be alone, her spirit surprisingly obsessed

148 01:28:12,380 --> 01:28:21,921 My patience will last no longer than this rose!

149 01:28:28,088 --> 01:28:38,171 All this magical science at Einar's home haunts Claire,

150 01:28:38,463 --> 01:28:44,255 like something as strong as love.

151 01:28:59,713 --> 01:29:06,921 At the scheduled time at the home of the scientist, modern "enchanter"

152 01:29:42,213 --> 01:29:46,213 THE WORLD IS HERE

153 01:30:21,005 --> 01:30:26,796 MOVE AROUND BY WIRELESS

154 01:30:51,005 --> 01:30:54,421 "See... Why leave?

155 01:30:54,713 --> 01:30:59,963 It is enough for you to just sing here in front of the microphone.

156 01:31:00,255 --> 01:31:05,463 And while the radio broadcasts your voice everywhere, on the same wavelengths,

157 01:31:05,755 --> 01:31:11,671 by a new process, the image of your listeners will return."

158 01:33:07,463 --> 01:33:12,505 "On this television screen you will be able to see,

159 01:33:12,796 --> 01:33:18,296 while you sing, the people listening to you all over the world."

160 01:34:37,796 --> 01:34:43,796 She travels without moving through space

161 01:35:57,046 --> 01:35:58,838 ...across the joy and pain of people...

162 01:37:50,921 --> 01:37:53,380 She forgets time...

163 01:38:43,713 --> 01:38:47,338 ...And my concert! it is appalling..."

164 01:38:51,713 --> 01:38:55,588 "There are already people lining outside of the theaters

165 01:40:02,255 --> 01:40:07,463 "Yes... it is a new device attached to the one where you almost burnt to death yesterday,

166 01:40:07,755 --> 01:40:10,838 It produces a force of unexpected effects."

167 01:40:21,213 --> 01:40:24,588 "... perhaps it is possible to revive the movements of a heart,

168 01:40:24,880 --> 01:40:28,421 heal humanity from death, but I have not dared to experiment on anyone."

169 01:41:01,046 --> 01:41:04,338 Careful... The machine...

170 01:41:58,546 --> 01:42:02,171 "Will you come this evening... after the theater?"

171 01:42:12,963 --> 01:42:15,588 "But... yes."

172 01:43:29,588 --> 01:43:32,213 The concert is over

173 01:44:07,088 --> 01:44:10,296 "I forbid you to go there."

174 01:44:15,421 --> 01:44:20,005 "Watch out... you will not arrive there alive"

175 01:45:49,296 --> 01:45:51,671 From Einar.

176 01:46:05,130 --> 01:46:09,838 A deadly reptile from Asia

177 01:46:59,130 --> 01:47:02,588 "To Mr. Norsen's house"

178 01:50:58,963 --> 01:51:05,546 Then Einar, stupefied, discovers...

179 01:52:52,713 --> 01:52:58,130 And now the great laboratory throbs with activity...

180 01:54:37,838 --> 01:54:43,213 He attempts an experiment to save Claire

181 01:57:04,380 --> 01:57:11,921 Einar decides to try again, and under his command everything comes to life...

182 01:57:25,963 --> 01:57:31,005 ...as in a symphony of labor

183 01:59:49,713 --> 01:59:57,421 "I wanted to come for the dangerous experience..."

184 02:00:14,546 --> 02:00:18,130 "... it was for love of...

185 02:00:24,671 --> 02:00:26,880 ...humanity..."