The mountain eagle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The mountain eagle |
| Original title | The Mountain Eagle |
| Country of production |
Great Britain , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| script |
Max Ferner , Eliot Stannard |
| production |
Michael Balcon for Gainsborough Pictures and Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG |
| camera | Gaetano di Ventimiglia |
| occupation | |
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Der Bergadler (Original title: The Mountain Eagle ) is a German-British film by the English director Alfred Hitchcock from 1926 . This film was his second work. The shooting took place in the Ötztal Alps in Obergurgl in Tyrol .
The film was received with restrained audience and soon disappeared from the cinemas. The film is now considered lost ; There are only a few still photos left, copies that have been preserved are not known and the original, shot on nitrate film, has most likely decayed in the meantime. Hitchcock himself found his second completed cinematic work to be bad.
action
Pettigrew is a shop owner in Kentucky and falls in love with the teacher Beatrice, who does not return his love. He then claims she molested his son Edward. Beatrice flees to the hermit John Fulton in the mountains. They both fall in love and get married. Pettigrew then hides his son and accuses the hermit of murdering him.
background
After the producer Michael Balcon was enthusiastic about Hitchcock's first directorial work Maze of Passion , he immediately entrusted him with directing Der Bergadler . However, due to the donor's concerns, both films were not released in England for the time being. It was only after Hitchcock's third film, The Tenant, was shot that Balcon decided to release all three films in quick succession in early 1927. The Bergadler premiered in May 1927 (after the other two films) and received mixed reviews. As early as October 1926, after a press screening , the magazine Bioscope wrote: “ Director Alfred Hitchcock was not served particularly well by his author, but he shows himself to be a skilful and sometimes brilliant director. "
Hitchcock's attention was drawn to the ski resort of Obergurgl as a possible location through a postcard. The film was shot in October; Nevertheless, the film crew was surprised by the onset of winter.
literature
- Robert A. Harris, Michael S. Lasky: Alfred Hitchcock and his films (= Goldmann Magnum 10201 Citadel film book ). Edited by Joe Hembus . Goldmann, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-10201-4 (Original edition: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock. Citadel Press, Secaucus NJ 1976, ISBN 0-8065-0509-5 ).
Web links
- The Mountain Eagle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The most wanted film in the world , accessed on October 12, 2012