Watch, and listen, here.

Emmanuel Rath, an esteemed  teacher in a local Gymnasium, falls heavily for Lola Lola, and in the end is ruined. In the original movie he is played by Emil Jannings and the fatale femme, the demi-mondaine meuf, by Marlene Dietrich..

Many remakes of that movie are made every day, all over the world. I can think of one or two right now.

In one such current remake, the part of Emmanuel Rath is played, and rather comically too, by the American painter Julian Schnabel. The role of Marlene Dietrich is played by a very goodlooking Arab girl, Rula Jebreal, a "Palestinian,"  who does  a wonderful job in promoting anti-Israel views. I think she should be grateful to all those kidnapped and enslaved Circassian and Georgian beauties  in her background who contributed more than their mite to her mixture.  Schnabel, smitten and playing the Professor Rath role to the grim hilt, has recently been in Israel making what was  to be more propaganda for the cause --  Jebreal apparently leads him around by the nose. Or some equivalent thereof. And he can do so much for her, as sugar daddy and movie maker. I wonder if he ever has second thoughts.

Lola Lola and Professor Rath can be found at the Venice Film Festival here.

Then there is Vittorio Sgarbi with Vittoria Risi at the same festival. But Sgarbi is not Lionello Venturi, and Vittoria Risi is not Moana Pozzi.  I knew Moana Pozzi. Moana Pozzi was a friend of mine. And Vittoria Risi, you are no Moana Pozzi. And besides, Sgarbi of course is just clowning for the cameras, and in any case, whatever he's doing or not doing with her, there are no nauseating propagandistic consequences of which we need take note.