Kas Jūs esat, Garbo Kundze? / Кто Вы, Миссис Гарбо?

 

 

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face plunged audiences into a kind of ecstasy.
A divine silhouette, a voice that shimmered like a secret, and a gaze that could melt icebergs.

 

"The story of my life is a story of back doors, side entrances, hidden elevators and all the ways one can appear and disappear without being seen – so that no one could reach me." (Greta Garbo)
On the 120th anniversary of her birth comes a revelatory film – an intimate, mesmerizing exploration of a woman whose worldwide fame, sudden disappearance, and lifelong seclusion still inspire awe, fascination, and endless questions.
With unprecedented access to personal archives, private letters, and the recollections of those who truly knew her, the film gradually lifts the veil on the myth, revealing a complex human being: tender, strong, and full of contradictions.
Through impressionistic reenactments and a meticulous recreation of her solitary Manhattan apartment, we are reintroduced to one of the most elusive actresses of the 20th century.
Her enigma was as integral to her genius as her singular beauty. Garbo didn’t simply perform – she enveloped, she bewitched.
Her kisses didn’t ignite with passion; they burned with poetic melancholy, as if time itself slowed to watch.
She was elusive in every role. Garbo dissolved into the doomed yearning of Anna Karenina and the fatal allure of Mata Hari; she radiated through the majesty of Queen Christina and the fragile grace of Marguerite Gautier; she hovered between the ethereal and the absurd as the delicate ballerina of Grand Hotel and the awkwardly tender revolutionary Ninochka.

 

At 36, she played her final part. Then she vanished. Forever.
"I was Greta Garbo. Leave me alone."