San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Erotikon (1929) July 12, 2009

Remarkably frank for any era, 'Erotikon' is drenched in a ripe sensuality that flows freely from every frame. A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a stranger. What happens next appears to follow the ages-old dictate of guilt, humiliation, and punishment but director Gustav Machat has something far more adult up his sleeve.