The crash

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Movie
Original title The crash
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1923
length approx. 106 minutes
Rod
Director Ludwig Wolff
script Ludwig Wolff
production Asta Nielsen for Art-Film, Berlin
music Giuseppe Becce
camera Axel Graatkjær ,
Georg Krause
occupation

and the entire staff of the Berlin Metropol-Theater .

The crash is a German silent film from 1923 with Asta Nielsen in the lead role.

action

Kaja Falk is a celebrated and revered middle-aged artist who has, however, gone through a lot in her life. The man who loves her must atone for a murder she is alleged to have committed. He faces the punishment and is behind bars for ten years. In gratitude, she promises her lover to remain loyal to him all the time and to wait for him until he is released. Every night he now dreams of her, and in his dreams she remains forever young, the desirable woman for whom he took the prison sentence.

But the decade during his absence was not good for Kaja. When he is finally free again, illness and the ravages of time made Kaja age vigorously. The released man stands in front of the prison gate and waits for his kaja, who obviously did not come. He walks past her because he no longer recognizes his great love in the old and careworn woman who wanted to pick him up, who he last saw ten years ago. The overlooked collapses in shock and in deep sadness.

Production notes

The crash , with the subtitle A Drama from the Artist's Life , passed film censorship on October 21, 1922, was banned from young people and was premiered in Düsseldorf in March 1923. The Berlin premiere took place two months later in the marble house. The six-stroke was 2,421 meters long.

Fritz Seyffert and Heinrich Beisenherz were responsible for the film construction. The company, which otherwise specialized in theatrical costumes, also supplied this film with costumes. The actor Max Maximilian assisted the director Ludwig Wolff here.

The 21-year-old Georg Krause was named here for the first time as co-chief cameraman under the guidance of his old teacher Axel Graatkjær .

criticism

Béla Balázs was immensely fascinated by Asta Nielsen's facial expressions when she viewed The Crash in Spring 1923. He wrote: Nielsen's face becomes “a dramatic stage that goes out of joint in front of the passions raging on it. […] And now there are over a hundred meters of close-up shots of Asta Nielsen's face! A trembling hope, a deadly shock, eyes that scream for help so that your ears ring, then the tears - visibly, really - fall down the thin cheeks, which suddenly wither completely before our eyes, and we see a soul die. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Béla Balázs on Asta Nielsen (1923) In: Writings on film 1: The visible man / reviews and essays on film 1922–1926. Henschel-Verlag, East Berlin 1982, p. 159 ff.