The read
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
42 audience votes
Key crew
- Ernst LubitschDirector
- Paul BernWriter
- Lothar SchmidtWriter
Cast
- Florence VidorCharlotte Braun
- Monte BlueDr. Franz Braun
- Marie PrevostMizzi Stock
- Creighton HaleDr. Gustav Mueller
- Adolphe MenjouProfessor Josef Stock
- Harry MyersDetective
- Dale FullerNeurotic patient
- Esther RalstonMiss Hofer
Stills
Themes
divorce