Danton (1931)
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Original title | Danton |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1931 |
length | 92 minutes |
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Director | Hans Behrendt |
script |
Heinz Goldberg Hans José Rehfisch (dialogues) |
production | Arnold Pressburger |
music | Artur Guttmann |
camera | Nicolas Farkas |
cut | René Métain |
occupation | |
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Danton is a German feature film directed by Hans Behrendt in 1931.
action
The film is set in France at the time of the French Revolution . Among the revolutionaries there is a discussion about what to do with King Louis XVI. should happen. The group led by Georges Danton pleads for the execution. The king will be tried and he will be executed. Further trials of nobles followed and death sentences were pronounced en masse. When Danton visits a prison, he falls in love with the prisoner Louise Gély. Now Danton comes into conflict with his opponent Robespierre . Robespierre succeeds in bringing Danton to the dock and his former comrade Danton is also sentenced to death and executed under the guillotine .
background
The film had its world premiere on January 21, 1931 in Berlin .
Reviews
“As a timely commitment to the threatened Weimar Republic and a rejection of the violence of early German talkies about the fight between the French revolutionary Danton and his opponent Robespierre. Shaped by the performance of the two actors Kortner and Gründgens. "
“No Piscator stage , no large theater can give this mass impression in all its strength. The camera is tearing past to present. Twice these culminating moments, twice Kortner's quotations from Danton with appeals to the republic, calls for fatherland and freedom, twice an echo that was immensely applauded by the people. An Eroica of noise and screams from which the hymn of the revolution stretches. "
“Fritz Kortner's Danton is an acting performance that the great artist has not given us for a long time. If he is brittle in the encounters with Louise Gély, then in the moments before the tribunal he is of a violence and shocking size that grips deeply. "
literature
- Fred Gehler Danton . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 241 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- Danton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Danton at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danton. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 28, 2017 .