Magical History Tour – Breaks in Film History (2)

In November, we continue our Magical History Tour with films that react to technical changes, political upheavals or aesthetic crises.

SHE DONE HIM WRONG (Lowell Sherman, USA 1933, 1. & 6.11.) In the late 1920s, to get around the state censorship, the Hollywood studios imposed strict rules on their own productions – no sex, no crime, no drugs. However, many American films made between 1930 and 1934 ignored the self-censorship. The period is one of the wildest in American cinema. The era's star was Mae West, who playing a nightclub singer alongside Cary Grant in SHE DONE HIM WRONG drains the swamp of the underworld in her very own way.