The Other (1930)

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The other is an early German sound film by Robert Wiene from 1930.

Movie
Original title The other
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1930
length 2343 m / 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Wiene
script Johannes Brandt
production Terra film
music Friedrich Hollaender
Will Meisel
Artur Guttmann
camera Nicolas Farkas
occupation

action

The film is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story . Hallers is a prosecutor who fights crime during the day and turns into a criminal at night. Haller's other self falls in love with the seedy woman Amalie Frieben, known in the underworld as Rote Male . Public Prosecutor Dr. Hallers is Amalie's greatest enemy, but she does not recognize the transformed Hallers and persuades him to murder Hallers. He even got involved and broke into his own house together with the innkeeper Dickert. In his own four walls, the public prosecutor's other self breaks through again and he has the innkeeper arrested. Through this act his double life is recognized and Haller's split personality can be dealt with. Hallers faces a lifelong stay in a closed institution, but the public prosecutor takes on the difficult fight with the other and is healed.

background

The other is a remake of the silent film of the same name by Max Mack from 1913. Albert Bassermann played the role at Mack that Fritz Kortner has now taken on. Both films are based on a play by Paul Lindau . The film is the first sound film by the legendary silent film director Robert Wiene. He was later awarded under the title of Public Prosecutor Hallers .

The buildings for the film were made by Ernő Metzner , with Nikolaus Farkas in charge of the camera . The recordings took place in Berlin , including in the Lunapark .

The other was premiered in Germany on August 12, 1930 in Berlin's Capitol cinema . It also ran in Denmark , Australia, and America , where it premiered in New York City on January 14, 1932 as The Other One .

Film music

As was usual in the early days of talkies, Der Andere received two sound film hits from the composers Artur Guttmann , Will Meisel and Friedrich Hollaender in addition to the accompanying music, the lyrics of which were written by Hollaender and Kurt Schwabach - one more brisk, the other more soulful :

  • Kiss me if you love me, song and Tango (Meisel, Guttmann and Schwabach)
  • You have a tear in your buttonhole. Tango (TuM Fr. Hollaender)

They are preserved in Ultraphon recordings :

Ultraphon A 531 (mx. 10 984, recorded in May 1930) Kiss me if you love me, Tango (Meisel, Guttmann and Schwabach) on sound film “The Other”: Tango Orchestra Juan Llossas , Refraingesang Walter Jurmann .

Ultraphon A 556 (mx. 15 024, recorded in August 1930) You have a tear in your buttonhole, Tango (TuM Fr. Hollaender) ad sound film “The Other”: Alfred Beres with orchestra. Refraing vocals Walter Jurmann.

The latter has entered the treasure trove of Berlin idioms with his witty and ironic text. However, his roots are likely to be older than the hit.

criticism

"A memorable moment at the beginning of the young German sound film era"

- Photo stage , August 13, 1930

"Early sound film version of the 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 'topic. A prosecutor whose second self is possessed by a crook has to fight himself. It was only with difficulty that he escaped lifelong admission to an institution and, after a serious crisis, found his way out of his split consciousness. A remarkable film in terms of acting. "

- Lexicon of International Films

“For the director Robert Wiene DER OTHER means a return to his beginnings, because in his remake of Max Mack's classic auteur film from 1913, the interest in psychoanalysis, the unconscious and the dark side of the human soul is expressed again had already determined his masterpiece THE CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI (1920). At the same time, Wiene's first sound film THE OTHER marks a new beginning and a new beginning: The sound film appears here as the analyst's couch, on which the unconscious is transformed into language. The OTHER can be read as an attempt at a dialogue between silent film and sound film and as a self-reflective examination of the translation of images into words. "

- filmblatt.de

literature

  • Günther Dahlke, Günter Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginning to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1993.
  • Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg: On the genesis of a film material: THE OTHER by Max Mack (1912) and Robert Wiene (1930). In: Filmwärts. 1993, No. 28, pp. 39-41.
  • Heinz Küpper (Hrsg.): Illustrated lexicon of German colloquial language. 8 volumes. Klett, Stuttgart 1982-84 (Volume II: Volume Blau - Faul. 1983), ISBN 3-12-570020-5 , ISBN 3-12-570180-5 )
  • Lihi Nagler: Allegories of the cultural struggles. The doppelganger figures in DER ANDERE (1913) and THE STUDENT FROM PRAGUE (1913) and their remakes from 1930 and 1926. In: montage AV. 16th year, 2007, No. 1, ISSN  0942-4954 , pp. 140-166 ( online, PDF; 216kb ).
  • Lihi Nagler, Philipp Stiasny: "I don't want, I don't want, I don't want!" Doppelganger, sound film technique and psychoanalysis in Robert Wiene's DER ANDERE (1930). In: Filmblatt. Volume 16, No. 45 Summer 2011, ISSN  1433-2051 , pp. 61-74.
  • Lena Marie Olbrisch: Paul Lindaus THE OTHER: from case to film. (DER OTHER by Paul Lindau: from a case study to a movie). Publication date: May 30, 2013; URL: [4]
  • Friedrich v. Zglinicki: The way of the film. The history of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Zglinicki pp. 377-379, Dahlke-Karl pp. 14-15.
  2. ^ Premieren-Theater, built in 1925/26 by Hans Poelzig with approx. 1300 seats, cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Zglinicki pp. 448-449. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / allekinos.pytalhost.com
  3. ↑ to listen to on youtube [1] . August 1930.
  4. ↑ cf. Heinz Küpper: Ill. Lexicon of German colloquial language. Volume 2: tear in the buttonhole. = feigned emotion; Sentimentality. Since the late 19th century, schül und stud. ; thank you with a tear in your buttonhole = touched thank you (iron). At the end of the 19th century among schoolchildren and students, twisted from "thank you with a tear in your eye and a carnation in your buttonhole". See a. cosmiq [2]
  5. ↑ cf. filmblatt.de [3]