Question
Leontine Sagan directed a hit 1931 film from this country that uses an all-female cast to tell the story of a girl falling in love with her female teacher. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country whose premier sexologist co-wrote the 1919 gay romance Different From the Others. The bisexual director of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and the androgynous star of The Blue Angel were from this country.
ANSWER: Germany [or Deutschland] (The 1931 film is Mädchen in Uniform. The sexologist is Magnus Hirschfeld. The director is Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and the actress is Marlene Dietrich.)
[10h] Different From the Others stars this actor, whose lead role in 1928’s The Man Who Laughs inspired the look of the Joker. A close-up on this actor in heavy eyeshadow as the somnambulist Cesare (“CHEZ-ah-ray”) is a defining image of German expressionism.
ANSWER: Conrad Veidt (“fight”) [or Hans Walter Conrad Veidt] (Cesare appears in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.)
[10m] This non-German director’s 1924 German film Michael follows an artist’s romances with his male model and a countess. This director allegorized Nazi occupation to a 17th-century witch hunt in the film Day of Wrath.
ANSWER: Carl Theodor Dreyer [or Carl Th. Dreyer]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.67 | 93% | 33% | 20% |