Enter the Mystery

Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr (whose stage name was Heidi Giesler at the time), who was in her twenties at the time, played the role of Eve, a young wife married to an old husband. Because she could not get sexual satisfaction, she secretly fell in love with a strange young knight named Adam, which eventually led to her husband committing suicide because he couldn't bear it. This film won the Best Director Award at the 2nd Venice Film Festival. Although it is a recognized art film, it was banned in the United States because of the large number of nude scenes of female bodies in the film. Heidi was young and ignorant at the time and allowed herself to be manipulated by the director, performing some scenes of nudity and passion, including nude swimming in the lake, streaking in the forest, and the "ecstatic" expression when making out with a young knight, etc. It seemed quite bold in the 1930s. Fortunately, the director also used a lot of symbolic descriptions to make the film as elegant and poetic as possible. The names of the male and female protagonists, Adam and Eve, are also obvious in metaphor. This film made Heidi famous and made her enter the American film industry and become a Hollywood superstar.