Die Liebe Der Jeanne Ney/The Love of Jeanne Ney (Silent Film 1927- ENG & RUS SUB)

The Love of Jeanne Ney (German: Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney), released as Lusts of the Flesh in the United Kingdom, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg. Subtitles in English and Russian (Click on CC to switch on the subtitles).

Cast & Characters:
Édith Jéhanne as Jeanne Ney
Uno Henning as Andreas Labov
Fritz Rasp as Khalibiev
Brigitte Helm as Gabrielle
Adolf E. Licho as Raymond Ney
Eugen Jensen as André Ney
Hans Jaray as Poitras
Sig Arno as Gaston
Hertha von Walther as Margot
Vladimir Sokoloff as Zacharkiewicz

The Love of Jeanne Ney was shot at the UFA film studios in Babelsberg and on location in Paris. For reasons of authenticity, Pabst had the partying White Russians in the opening sequence played by actual White Russian expatriates. Ehrenburg, initially excited about the opportunity to work with Pabst, whose films he held in esteem, was soon disappointed to find that the director was more concerned with set details than the "absurdity" (Ehrenburg) of the script. Protesting in vain against Pabst's changes to his original work (including a happy ending not in the book), he tried to have his name removed from the titles, condemning the resulting film for its philistine morals, such as having communist Andreas kneel in front of the holy virgin. After Alfred Hugenberg had acquired the producing company UFA, more changes were demanded against Pabst's will, including the almost complete deletion of the scene with Jeanne and Andreas spending the night at the hotel. The Love of Jeanne Ney premiered in Berlin on 6 December 1927. For the American release version, 20 minutes were cut from the film and, in certain scenes, different camera angles used.

Because the film negatives of both the German and US version are lost, HD restorations were made based on negative duplicates and prints.The German version was restored in 2016 from a duplicate made by the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s, the US version from a German archive copy. The restored German version was first screened with live music at the UFA Filmnächte in Berlin in August 2017 and premiered on Arte TV the following month.