Literature and Movies (1)

Olinka Berova  as She

Women worshipped as a Goddess.....

A well known story is  'She'  written by H. Rider Haggard.
'She' takes us to the deepest interior of Africa, searching not for treasure but for the secrets  of a woman's love.
In Rider Haggard's greatest romance a father's mysterious legacy to his son, brings Leo Vincey and his two fellow-adventurers to Africa. Travelling through crocodile-infested rivers, across volcanic plains and marshes they reach the vast, eerie catacombs of the kingdom of Kôr, where they encounter She, the white Queen of the Amahaggar people. A woman of legendary beauty, bewitching and destructive, She has waited two thousand years for the rebirth and return of the man she loved. And this man, she believes, is Leo Vincey.

Powerful, intense and visually magnificent, 'She' was written  'at a white heat' in six weeks, in 1886. In it Rider Haggard creates an unforgettable, archetypal woman, 'the femme fatale.

The movie
'She' is a 1965 film made by Hammer Film Productions, based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard.It was directed by Robert Day and stars Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros and Christopher Lee. The film was an international success and led to a 1968 sequel, The Vengeance of She, with Olinka Berova in the title role.

Ursula Andres  as  She