Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne
Alraune, the hangman's daughter, known as the red Hanne is the title of a silent horror drama that the Hungarian director Eugen Illés realized in 1918 for the Berlin-based Neutral-Film GmbH. According to some sources, the actor Joseph Klein was also involved in the direction. The film was also shown under the abbreviated title Alraune , which subsequently gave rise to many confusions. The main roles were Max Auzinger and Hilde Wolter , who made her debut in this film.
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne |
| Original title | Alternative title: Mandrake |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 6 acts, 2138, 2024 meters after censorship, at 22 fps 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eugen Illés (Hungarian: Illés Jenö), Josef Klein [?] |
| script | Carl Froelich and Georg Tatzelt |
| production | Neutral-Film GmbH (Berlin) |
| camera | Eugene Illés |
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action
The child of an unhappily married woman falls ill. She learns about the magical mandragora root, which has the power to make the child healthy. But then the ghost of a deceased ancestor appears to her who was once in a similar situation: her child was also sick and she gave him Mandragora to heal it. The child died and she was arrested and sentenced to death at the stake for witchcraft. The woman resolves to ignore the warning and uses the root. The child will get well, her husband will return to her, and everything will end well.
background
The film was a production by Neutral-Film GmbH (Berlin). Artur Günther built the film buildings . Director Eugen Illés also took care of the photography. Some sources also give Joseph Klein , who played the hangman in the film, as a co-director. IMDb and en.wiki both named Carl Froelich and Georg Tatzelt as the writers of the script, but Luna-Film GmbH Berlin as the production company. GECD # 17351 and en.wiki wrongly name Hanns Heinz Ewers as the author of the literary model. The incorrect content at IMDb is due to a mix-up with the “Alraune” (1918) by Mihály Kertész and Fritz Ödön.
In Germany, the film was awarded by Natural Film GmbH.
Despite the title, the film story, which takes place in the Middle Ages and in the present, only has the mandragora root and its effect on people in common with the novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers .
reception
The film is reviewed in: Cinematograph No. 635, 1919
and is registered with
- Lamprecht Vol. 8 No. 245
- Birett, directory of films run in Germany. Munich No. 272, 1919
- Birett, directory of films run in Germany. Munich No. 449, 1919
- Birett, directory of films run in Germany. Munich No. 560, 1919
Alraune, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne, was submitted for censorship in December 1918 and was performed in Germany on February 26, 1919, also under the short title Alraune . In 1921 the film was shown again after the re-introduction of the Reich film censorship , which reduced it by 114 meters from the original 2138 meters to 2024 meters.
Both the police licensors in Munich (censorship no. 30066-71) and in Berlin (censorship no. 42 668) as well as the Reich film censorship (no. 718 of 09/10/21) imposed a youth ban on the film. The version censored in 1921 was released, presumably from a pirated copy, in the US distribution under the title Sacrifice ; Newtral Films acted as distributor , which had nothing to do with the German production company Neutral-Film.
A 16 mm copy of the film has been preserved in the George Eastman House in Rochester / USA , albeit in an unfinished condition .
The assignment of the traditional cinema posters, which only have the title Mandrake , is not very easy , as it is not possible to determine with certainty which of the Mandrake films they belong to.
Web links
- Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne at filmportal.de
- Mandrake, the Henkerstochter, called the red Hanne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alraune, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne at The German Early Cinema Database
- “Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne” / “Sacrifice” at en.wiki
- “Mandrake, the hangman's daughter, called the red Hanne” / “Sacrifice” at fr.wiki
Items:
- Blogger "Doctor Kiss" (May 22, 2008) on the Classic Horror Film Board at tapatalk.com
Illustration:
- Still image (with incorrect assignment) at cinemedioevo.net
literature
- Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Gabriele Jatho (eds.), Filmmuseum Berlin - Deutsche Kinemathek: Artificial people: manic machines, controlled bodies. Translated by Bettina Femers, Hans-Joachim Schlegel. Verlag Jovis, 2000, ISBN 3-931321-71-1 , p. 57 and 62.
- Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Decisions d. Film censorship in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart 1911–1920. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921612-10-1 .
- Anjeana K. Hans: Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic. New edition. Wayne State University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8143-3895-7 , p. 218.
- Heike Jestram: Myths, Monsters and Machines. Verlag Teiresias, 2000, ISBN 3-934305-14-8 , pp. 5, 46 and 118.
- Gerhard Lamprecht: German silent films . Volume 8, p. 902, No. 245.
- Henry Nicolella, John T. Soister: Many Selves: The Horror and Fantasy Films of Paul Wegener . BearManor Media, 2013.
- Christian Rogowski (Ed.): The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy (= Screen cultures: German film and the visual ). New edition. Camden House, 2010, ISBN 978-1-57113-429-5 , pp. 209 and Note 13, 233.
- Michael Schaudig: Positions in German Film History (= Discourse Film: Munich Contributions to Film Philology. Volume 8). Diskurs -Film-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-926372-07-9 , p. 80.
- Georges Sturm: The Circe, the Peacock and the Half-Blood: the films by Fritz Lang, 1916–1921 (= International Film History: Series of publications by the Cinémathèque Municipale de Luxembourg. Volume 8). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-88476-434-9 , pp. 95, 232.
- Christy Wampole: Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor. New edition. University of Chicago Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-226-31779-3 , p. 34, note 46.
- David Wingrove (Ed.): Science Fiction Film Source Book. Longman Group, Harlow 1985, ISBN 0-582-89239-2 .
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. The history of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1956, DNB 455810680 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ so z. B. IMDb and an undated film program from Denmark on “Alraune”, which is called Skarpretterens Datter (The Executioner's Daughter): Drama in 1 prologue and 5 acts by Carl Frøhlich and Georg Fatzfelt [sic] . Directed by Eugen Illes and Joseph Klein. Here Josef (Joseph) Klein is also confirmed in the role of the executioner, cf. user 'Melkes' (May 21, 2008) at tapatalk.com
- ↑ cf. IMDb / releaseinfo and en.wiki
- ↑ cf. Inscription on the lobby card at wikimedia.org : “ A fantastic modern and medieval mystery drama of love and tragedy ” as well as Jestram p. 118 and Hans p. 218.
- ↑ on the lobby card at wikimedia.org the human-like root can be seen above a shelf; the main actress, Hilde Wolter, with the painting of the ancestor burned as a witch behind her, stares at her in horror.
- ↑ Information according to GECD # 17351
- ↑ so GECD # 17351
- ↑ so IMDb / releaseinfo and “Doctor Kiss” at tapatalk.com
- ↑ On the contrary, efforts were made to hide all references to the German origin of the film material, and even the actors Hilde Wolter and Adolf Semmler were passed off as "international stars". See lobby card at wikimedia.org
- ↑ user “Phantom XCI” wrote on tapatalk.com : “ I viewed the" long lost "print of ALRAUNE at George Eastman House about 18 years ago. The print, which bears the English title SACRIFICE, is difficult to watch: it is 16mm, and appears to have been a restoration abandoned in progress (some scenes are missing, others are out-of-sequence, there were long gaps of white leader in between many shots). Additionally (as has already been stated), the film is not based on the Hanns Heinz Ewers novel "(May 21, 2008)
- ↑ An exception is the poster that the graphic artist Josef Fenneker designed in 1919 for the first performance of Mihály Kertész '“Alraune”; it not only mentions the number of film acts, but also names the world premiere theater Marmorhaus and its director Siegbert Goldschmidt , cf. imdb.com
