The black envelope
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The black envelope |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1922 |
| length | 6 acts, 2448 m, at 22 fps 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Piel |
| script | Harry Piel Alfred Zeisler Victor Abel |
| production | Harry Piel Heinrich minor number |
| camera |
Georg Muschner Franz Meinecke |
| occupation | |
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The black envelope is the title of a silent crime film that Harry Piel made in 1922 in his company "Harry Piel Film Company GmbH" in Berlin, based on a script that he wrote together with Alfred Zeisler and Victor Abel . He plays the detective Harry Peel in it. At his side you can see first forces like Albert Paulig , Inge Helgard and Else Bodenheim .
action
In the eponymous "black envelope" the hero, the detective Harry Peel, who loses his fortune in the course of the plot, is given tasks. A mysterious criminal, chases in the wintry Alps with car and motorcycle and the blowing up of a bridge provide cinematic show values and offer opportunities for breakneck stunts.
background
The film was a production of the "Harry Piel Film Company GmbH". Heinrich Nebenzahl was co-producer and worked with Harry Piel in various joint ventures until 1927. More than seventy films resulted from this collaboration.
Willi A. Herrmann created the set, Albert Korell built special structures , and Paul Thürnagel was the make-up artist . The manager was Walter Zeiske . Georg Muschner and Franz Meinecke took care of the photography . Outdoor shots were taken in the Bavarian Alps, the stunts were performed by Hermann Stetza .
On May 22, 1922, the film was submitted to the - just reintroduced - Reich film censorship and received a youth ban under the number B.05844. It was premiered on May 19, 1922 in the large Berlin cinema "Schauburg". The film was also shown as Den sorte envelope in Denmark and, as three posters by graphic artist Boris Prusak show, as alsрный конверт also in Russia.
reception
The film was discussed in the Illustrierte Filmwoche Volume 10, No. 20 from 1922.
Piel's films were also successful in Russia, with “the crowd thirsting to see Harry Piel. Neither rain nor snow stop them. "And who was prepared to pay black market prices for them:" Cards that actually cost 40 kopecks at the cash register are moved here for two rubles. Right next to the outside staircase of the cinema. ”Much to the chagrin of the Soviet state, which denounced Piels films as“ demoralizing and petty-bourgeois ”.
literature
- Matias Bleckman: Harry Piel: a cinema myth and its time. Filminstitut der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, 1992, ISBN 3-929098-01-6 , p. 146 u. 180.
- Oksana Bulgakova: The Unusual Adventures of Dr. Mabuse in the land of the Bolsheviks: the book for the film series "Moscow-Berlin". Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-927876-10-0 , p. 161 u. 284.
- Erika Wottrich (Ed.): M for Nebenzummer: Nero film production between Europe and Hollywood. Edition Text + Criticism, Ein CineGraph Buch, 2002, ISBN 3-88377-710-2 , p. 119.
Web links
- The black envelope in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The black envelope at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ on May 12, 1920 the Reichslichtspielgesetz came into force, which again subjected film censorship to state regulation.
- ↑ cf. Birett, sources
- ↑ opened in 1919, large cinema (1500 seats) with parquet and built-in tier, belonged to the Munich Emelka group, cf. allekinos.com
- ↑ cf. IMDb / release info
- ↑ shown at IMDb
- ↑ the films Anna Boleyn and Being is the court were also discussed there; on the title page the actress Marija Leiko was depicted, who starred in Being Is the Court . See ebay.de (accessed November 15, 2018)
- ↑ cf. Bulgakowa 1995, p. 163.