Atto Retti-Marsani

Chamber singer Charlotte Boerner and Atto Retti-Marsani (1931)

Atto Retti-Marsani , also Retti Marsani and Otto Retti-Marsani (* 1892 , † 1961 ) was an Italian actor , director and screenwriter .

Life

He appeared, alongside Erich Kaiser-Titz as Phantomas, in the second episode of the Phantomas series, for which Paul Rosenhayn had written the script. In 1917 he tried his hand at being a comedian in two episodes of the Dummy series with one and two acts, for which he also wrote the manuscript and screenplay. In three other films, a Heimat film, a comedy film and a detective film, he is only an actor. Together with Max Nadler , he directed the 50,000 mark premium film Der Totenkopf in 1920 .

Two further films from Italian production, in which he directed, followed in 1920 and 1929. After that, no more works by him have been documented.

In the 1930s, Retti-Marsani was one of the circle of friends of the Hitler photographer Heinrich Hoffmann . As a photograph shows, he was invited to the celebration of Hoffmann's 50th birthday in Nuremberg on September 12, 1935 . To society also included Eva Braun , the woman employee of Hoffmann, whose girlfriend Marion Schönmann and Max Schmeling . Retti-Marsani worked as a photographer after working in the film business .

Filmography

1916: Ramara (Phantomas-Serie No.II) [Actor]
1917: Dummy seeks his mind [actor, screenplay]
1917: Dummy's main hit [actor, script and direction]
1917: The vulture of Sankt Veit [actor]
1918: will you marry my aunt? [Actor]
1918: The gentleman with the mastiff [actor]
1920: The Skull [director (with Max Nadler)]
1920: Deus judicat [director]
1929: The street singer of Venice (Original title: Cantastorie di Venezia ) [Director]

literature

Gero Gandert: 1929 - The film of the Weimar Republic, illustrated edition. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1993. ISBN 9783110852615 , length 916 pages
Ludwig Greve, Margot Pehle, Heidi Westhoff (eds.): “If I had the cinema!”. The writers and the silent film. An exhibition by the German Literature Archive in the Schiller National Museum in Marbach a. N., exhibition catalog. Munich: Kösel Verl. 1976
Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun: Life with Hitler. Munich: Verlag CH Beck, 2012. ISBN 9783406616631 , length 366 pages
Franz Helzel: The failure of the 'living space' planning in the German-Soviet war of extermination. Bad Wildungen, June 2012. as PDF online at [4]
Heinrich Hoffmann (Ed.): German East - Land of the Future. A call from the east to home! Edited by Prof. Heinrich Hoffmann (Reich photo reporter). Designed by Atto Retti Marsani; in connection with Dr. Fritz Prause, foreword by Reich Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Edition 311. – 345. Tausend, Munich 1942
Elena Mosconi: L'impressione del film: contributi per una storia culturale del cinema italiano, 1895–1945 (= Volume 9 by V&P Università: Media, spettacolo, processi culturali). Verlag Vita e Pensiero, 2006. ISBN 9788834313275 , length 286 pages
Marco Targa: The use of Cue Sheets in Italian Silent Cinema. Contexts, repertoires, practice. In: Claus Tieber, Anna Katharina Windisch: The Sounds of Silent Films: pp. 49–65
Claus Tieber, Anna Katharina Windisch: The Sounds of Silent Films: New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice. Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. ISBN 9781137410726 , length 288 pages

Web links

Otto Retti-Marsani at filmportal.de
Otto Retti-Marsani at The German Early Cinema Database
Retti Marsani in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Remarks

↑ What this monetary statement refers to remains unclear: did you get this bonus as a viewer if you guessed the perpetrator? Or was the film awarded with it, and if so: by whom? It was made by Weiss-Blau Filmwerke in Munich, whose products also included the alleged Karl Valentin film Circus Schnabelmann in 1920 , cf. kinotv.com [1] and hartbrunner.de [2] : "Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt and August Junker play the main roles in the silent film" Circus Schnabelmann ". The film is lost ”. For the Weiss-Blau Filmwerke company, cf. kinotv.com [3]

personal data
SURNAME	Retti-Marsani, Atto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marsani, Retti; Retti-Marsani, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	1892
DATE OF DEATH	1961

[1] What this monetary statement refers to remains unclear: did you get this bonus as a viewer if you guessed the perpetrator? Or was the film awarded with it, and if so: by whom? It was made by Weiss-Blau Filmwerke in Munich, whose products also included the alleged Karl Valentin film Circus Schnabelmann in 1920 , cf. kinotv.com [1] and hartbrunner.de [2] : "Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt and August Junker play the main roles in the silent film" Circus Schnabelmann ". The film is lost ”. For the Weiss-Blau Filmwerke company, cf. kinotv.com [3]