Ballet dancer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ballet dancer |
| Original title | Balletdanserinden |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1911 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | August Blom |
| script | Alfred Kjerulf |
| production | Nordisk Films Kompagni |
| camera | Axel Graatkjaer |
| occupation | |
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Ballet Dancer is a Danish silent film by August Blom from 1911. The film was also released under the alternative titles Die Ballettänzerin and Burning Tricks .
action
The playwright Jean Mayol is introduced to the ballet dancer Camille Flavier, who is considered the most talented student in the theater. She admits that she knows the role of his latest play by heart. When a little later the prima donna of the theater fails and Jean's play is threatened with cancellation, he remembers Camille. She takes on the lead role and is celebrated as an actress. Camille and Jean become a couple. Jean's friend Paul Rich asks Camille if he can paint them.
While Camille is his model , Jean meets secretly with Yvette, the wife of the industrialist Simon. Camille is already home when they both arrive at the apartment. After Yvette's disappearance, she confronts Jean, who reacts disgruntled. Camille is invited by the manufacturer Simon to a dinner at which she has to speak. In the middle of the declamation she recognizes Yvette among the assembled guests and accuses her emotionally charged. Paul brings the exhausted Camille into his studio and puts her to bed. Jean appears and Paul reproaches him for his love affair, but Jean assures him that he only loves Camille. She hears this in the adjoining bedroom and is relieved, but a little later she finds a piece of paper that Jean has thrown away. It is a letter from Yvette in which she makes an appointment to meet Jean. With the letter, Camille rushes to the manufacturer Simon and tells him that his wife is cheating on him. Armed with a pistol, Simon goes to Jean, but Camille warns the lovers that they fear for Jean's life. Camille walks out of the house with Jean in Yvette's clothes, but the trick goes wrong. Simon continues to wait in front of the house and follows his wife as she tries to leave the house in Camille's clothes. He shoots her in the stairwell .
The next day, Camille learns of Yvette's murder and collapses. She is only slowly recovering. Paul is always by her side and takes her to his parents when she has recovered. Camille spends happy and peaceful days here, until one day Jean appears and tries to convince her again of his love. Even the first meeting after a long time shows him the limits: When Paul appears, Camille immediately rushes to him and gives him a warm hug. Jean turns away.
background
Ballet dancer was one of four films that Asta Nielsen made in Denmark. After her film debut abyss in 1910 and the unexpected success of the film she was initially from the Bioscop been brought to Germany, where with moths and Hot blood came up in May 1911 two films. Although the Bioscop signaled interest in a further collaboration with Asta Nielsen, she went back to Denmark in the summer months, where she first shot the film The Black Dream for Fotorama and then for the Nordisk ballet dancer . The contract with Nordisk, which Nielsen had already signed for 1912, was never fulfilled, however, as businessman Christoph Mülleneisen signed Nielsen for further films in Germany in June 1911 and in return accepted the contractual penalty of 10,000 crowns . Ballet dancer had its premiere on November 16, 1911. It was not until 1918 that Asta Nielsen shot Der Fackelträger, her second and last film for Nordisk, as well as her fourth and last Danish film ever.
Ballet dancer and the three other Danish silent films in which Asta Nielsen played a role appeared in 2005 in the series Danske Stumfilmklassikere in restored form and with new musical accompaniment on DVD.
Web links
- Ballet dancer in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Hansert: Asta Nielsen and the Babelsberg film studios: the commitment Carl Schleussners in the German film industry . 1st edition. Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-232-1 , p. 49 .
- ↑ Asta Nielsen: The silent muse . Hinstorff, Rostock 1961, p. 135 .