ARCHINT: Helen's Dress
Helen's Dress This yellow satin dress is embellished with art deco motifs and strange golden patterns. Used in the filming of The Fall of Troy, an allegedly "cursed" movie from Weimar-era Germany, it is sought after by many collectors of the weird and occult. History The Fall of Troy was first conceived in 1928 by Wolfgang Koenig, a wealthy socialite whose father had worked with Heinrich Schliemann on the Hissalrik dig. Koenig grew up among plundered relics of the classical world and obsessive pseudo-archaeologists, and became somewhat of an amateur historian himself. His 1928 concept of the film was a relatively faithful retelling of the Iliad, a task already accomplished four years prior by Manfred Noa's epic Helena. That didn't stop Koenig from trying to make something even grander, an unrealistic prospect even with the obscene amount of money he was willing to throw at it. Koenig realized a script and a few early props extremely derivative of Noa's versi...