![The sexually explicit 'Extase', starring Hedy Lamarr, and its continuing connection with the Venice Film Festival | Baradwaj Rangan The sexually explicit 'Extase', starring Hedy Lamarr, and its continuing connection with the Venice Film Festival | Baradwaj Rangan](https://baradwajrangan.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/mv5bmguwzjyxzjatowqzzc00zmnmltg1zjmtmtk1mzmynjewngrhxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvymjixmzmymq4040._v1_.jpg)
The sexually explicit 'Extase', starring Hedy Lamarr, and its continuing connection with the Venice Film Festival | Baradwaj Rangan
NTV - 00v/44/arve/G2009/020 1932: Austrian-born actor Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000), then known as Hedwig Kiesler, stands in front of a horse in the nude scene from Czech director Gustav Machaty's film, 'Extase (Ecstasy)'. (
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