Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913)
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| German title | Adrienne Lecouvreur |
| Original title | Adrienne Lecouvreur |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 47 (German version) minutes |
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| Director |
Louis Mercanton Henri Desfontaines |
| script |
Sarah Bernhardt William F. O'Connor based on the play of the same name by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe |
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Adrienne Lecouvreur is a medium-length, French equipment and monumental silent film from 1912 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role .
action
It depicts scenes - above all love and suffering - from the life of the famous French theater actress Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730). The focus of the action is her tragic relationship with Marshal Moritz von Sachsen , who is in French service, which comes to an abrupt end when the Mimin, not yet 38 years old - Sarah Bernhardt was already 68 at the time of the shooting! - is poisoned by a jealous rival while her lover is at war.
Production notes
Adrienne Lecouvreur was shot by the same team in 1912, right after Queen Elisabeth of England , after the Elisabeth film had become a huge national and international success. The first performance probably took place in January 1913 in New York City. In the same year the strip could be seen in both Germany and Austria-Hungary. The German version was three acts long and measured 857 meters.
In 1938 Marcel L'Herbier shot a remake of this material.
Reviews and reception
“An artistic sensation of the very first order is the monopoly film by the Gaumont company, the three-act drama“ Adrienne Lecouvreur ”, in which Madame Sarah Bernhardt plays the leading role. If the drama itself is somewhat antiquated and belongs to the theatrical repertoire of bygone times, the great French tragedy knows how to create such a significant effect through her masterpiece that one is constantly under the spell of her personality. On this occasion, one would like to discuss the question of whether the effect of a drama is based more on its content or on its presentation. In any case, it is a fact that we often receive much deeper impressions from acting than from poetry. In any case, Sarah Bernhardt should be as successful in this masterpiece as it was in "Queen Elisabeth". "