Bismarck 1862-1898
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bismarck 1862-1898 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curt Blachnitzky |
| script | Ludwig Drag |
| production | Bismarck-Film GmbH, Berlin |
| music | Felix Bartsch |
| camera | Willy Großstück |
| occupation | |
and Robert Leffler , Rudolf Lettinger , Maria Santen , Bruno Ziener , Wolfgang von Schwind , Margarete Schön , Toni Zimmerer , Victor Senger , Barbara von Annenkoff , Hugo Flink | |
Bismarck 1862–1898 is a 1926 German historical silent film with Franz Ludwig in the title role . Directed by Curt Blachnitzky .
action
The film follows on from Ernst Wendt's Bismarck film from the previous year (1925), which ended in 1862. The cast in both films is largely identical.
After Bismarck was appointed Prime Minister of the state by the Prussian King Wilhelm I (1862), he undertook numerous domestic political measures (such as the reform of the military) and foreign policy measures. Above all, the final confrontation with the greatest adversary within the German Confederation , the Austrian Empire , which ultimately led to the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 , makes up the first part of this film. Another important historical event that this film puts at the center of the action is the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , which ultimately leads to the establishment of an empire with King Wilhelm as German emperor.
In the later years Bismarck, now appointed Chancellor, tries to consolidate this state structure, which is surrounded by numerous enemies. After the death of the old emperor and the accession to the throne by his grandson Wilhelm II (1888), there are more and more differences of opinion and upheavals between the two representatives of very different generations. The film hardly goes into the shameful departure of Bismarck as a result of Wilhelm II's dismissal (1890). Reich Chancellor a. D. Otto von Bismarck on his estate in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg, where he also dies.
Production notes
Bismarck 1862–1898 was created in Berlin's Efa studio. The film passed the censorship on December 22, 1926, was 2808 meters long, divided into seven acts, and was released for young people. The premiere took place on January 7, 1927 in the Primus Palace.
The film constructions come from Willi A. Herrmann .
For Franz Ludwig , who was almost exclusively a stage actor , this work was one of his very rare trips to film. However, this was not his first portrayal of the founder of the empire. As early as 1913, Ludwig had played the iron chancellor in a much less complex and ambitious Bismarck film, the Eiko film, under three directors. Ludwig also gave Bismarck in the 1925 film.
background
The two-part Bismarck film project was one of the most ambitious cinema projects of the Weimar Republic and, after the lost First World War , instilled a patriotism of German-national spirit in German youth. No expense or effort was spared for this, and one could be sure of the support of the highest authority in the state: A production company was founded especially for this film, Bismarck-Film GmbH. The newly appointed President Paul von Hindenburg could be won as a patron for the mammoth project. A plethora of other well-known experts were called in: Ludwig Manzel took on the artistic advice, Colonel von Hahnke provided the military advice, the sculptor Hans Sametzki acted as a portrait expert for the production of the historical masks (Bismarck, Wilhelm I., Moltke etc.) , and the military scientist Herbert Knötel was hired as a consultant for uniforms and weapons.
Reviews
This sequel, heavily propagated by German national circles, received consistently weak to very bad reviews and was allegedly also rejected by the audience, as the Austrian Film-Zeitung reported. The following is a detailed and thoroughly representative assessment by Vienna's Neue Freie Presse , which mainly asserted artistic deficits in this film:
There it says: “Ten years ago this film would have been a sensation. Measured by the standards of today's cinematic art, however, it is a well-behaved middle-class with no creative spark. (...) After the witty and powerful prelude to Bismarck's struggle for the army template, however, the film seeps into the plains of banality. (...) All technical difficulties are avoided with an anxiety that is by no means inevitable nowadays. The antithesis between the German and French courts suffers from the fact that it is actually not an antithesis. (...) Napoleon III. With his goatee and his tendency to crying fits, he sometimes looks a bit strange, especially in his most tragic moments ... Empress Eugenie is not a very demonic parlor snake. (...) The neatly glued together pictures ... result in a reader story, but not Bismarck's life. This film is good average work. But a Bismarck film will first have to be created. "
literature
- Maja Lobinski-Demedts: Bismarck in the film. The Bismarck films of 1914 and 1925/27. In: Lothar Machtan (ed.): Bismarck and the German national myth. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-86108-244-6 , pp. 157-179.
Web links
- Bismarck 1862–1898 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bismarck 1862–1898 at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1923-1926. Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1967, p. 473.
- ↑ Austrian Film Newspaper. Vol. 1, No. 3, January 15, 1927, ZDB -ID 2136106-X , p. 5 .
- ↑ "Bismarck 1862-1898". In: Neue Freie Presse , June 24, 1927, p. 18 (online at ANNO ).