OIL LAMPS (1971) (Church of Film)

Stepha, a vivacious actress from a wealthy family, is approaching her 30s and is unmarried. Her cousin Paul, an officer in the Austrian army and a shameless rogue, tricks her into marrying him so that he can settle his enormous gambling debts and assume ownership of his father’s estate. He is unable to consummate the marriage and descends into madness…

OIL LAMPS is a visually sumptuous drama of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire, told by the brilliant Juraj Herz (The Cremator, Morgiana, Beauty & the Beast)!