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Flesh and the Devil (1926)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.1
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Overview

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive

Overview

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.


Starring Cast


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Traditional

Primary

The film's central conflict, a romantic melodrama exploring temptation and betrayal, is largely apolitical. However, its narrative resolution subtly reinforces traditional values of loyalty, friendship, and the dangers of moral transgression, leading to a right-leaning interpretation.

This 1926 silent film features traditional casting with no intentional diversity in its main roles. The narrative focuses on classic romantic drama without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating explicit DEI themes.

Secondary

The film's narrative implicitly aligns with Christian moral teachings by framing the central conflict as a struggle against temptation and sin, symbolized by the 'flesh and the devil.' While not overtly religious, the story's arc, which sees destructive passion lead to tragedy and eventual reconciliation, reinforces virtues consistent with Christian ethics without critiquing the faith itself.

Flesh and the Devil is a classic silent romantic drama centered on a heterosexual love triangle. The film's narrative focuses exclusively on the relationships and conflicts between its male and female protagonists, without featuring any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or subplots.

Flesh and the Devil, a 1926 silent romantic drama, does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative centers exclusively on a traditional love triangle, rendering the rubric's criteria for portrayal inapplicable to the film's content.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The 1926 film "Flesh and the Devil" is an adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel "The Undying Past." All primary characters in the film retain the same gender as established in the source material.

The film "Flesh and the Devil" (1926) is an adaptation of a German novel, featuring characters of European descent. The cast, including Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, are all white actors portraying these characters, consistent with the source material and historical context. There is no evidence of a character established as one race being portrayed as a different race.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.1

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.6
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7.2

Critic Ratings

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9.4
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N/A

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