Danton (1931)

Movie
Original title	Danton
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1931
length	92 minutes
Rod
Director	Hans Behrendt
script	Heinz Goldberg Hans José Rehfisch (dialogues)
production	Arnold Pressburger
music	Artur Guttmann
camera	Nicolas Farkas
cut	René Métain
occupation
Fritz Kortner as Danton Lucie Mannheim as Louise Gély Gustaf Gründgens as Robespierre Alexander Granach as Marat Gustav von Wangenheim as Desmoulins Werner Schott as Saint Just Hermann Speelmans as Louis Legendre Georg John as Fouquier-Tinville Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Malesherbes , defender of King Louis XVI. Georg H. Schnell as Duke of Koburg Ferdinand Hart as General Charles-François Dumouriez Friedrich Gnaß as the executioner Charles Henri Sanson Walter Werner as Malesherbes Carl Goetz as a small pensioner

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. "

- Lexicon of international film

“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. "

- Film-Kurier , January 23, 1931

“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. "

- Photo-Stage , January 23, 1931

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

1. ↑ Danton. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 28, 2017 .