Moulin Rouge

There is a singer and dancer working at the Moulin Rouge. She meets the man engaged to her daughter. The young man attaches himself to her obsessively, and she answers that attention. What follows is estrangement, betrayal and a tension that comes very close to tragedy. The film builds the affair not as a moral lesson but as a situation three people are caught in. The gap between the brightness of the stage world and the life behind it sits inside the account. It is a feature length work of British silent cinema in 1928. Olga Tschechowa takes the lead, with Ray Milland also in the cast. E.A. Dupont’s hundred and thirty seven minute British film was completed in 1928.