The Galilean

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Movie
Original title The Galilean
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1921
length 45 minutes
Rod
Director Dimitri Buchowetzki
script Dimitri Buchowetzki
Stats Hagen
camera Arpad Viragh
occupation

The Galilean is a colored, viraged silent film by the director Dimitri Buchowetzki from 1921 . Its title refers to Galilee as the birthplace of Jesus.

action

Based on the Oberammergau Passion Play , scenes from the life and death of Jesus Christ are shown, including the entry into Jerusalem, the Lord's Supper , the capture in the Garden of Gethsemane , the condemnation and the crucifixion .

music

In 2016 the rights holder ( Katholisches Filmwerk ) published an official DVD in cooperation with the label "Organpromotion" on which three organ improvisations for the film can be heard. The 3 organists were: Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard on the organ of St. Eustache in Paris, Pater Landelin Fuß on the organ of the monastery church Beuron ad Donau, Mathias Rehfeldt on the organ of the monastery church Weggental / Rottenburg aN

background

The film was produced by the Berlin company Express-Films Co. GmbH and shot in the Dreisamtal . In addition to the brothers Georg and Adolf Faßnacht, who toured many countries in Central Europe with their touring theater since the end of the 19th century, the film also features many extras from Freiburg im Breisgau and the surrounding area.

The film premiered in Portugal on March 28, 1923 and was released in the United States in 1928 . In the 1990s, the film was restored by the Federal Archives' film archive . On March 30, 2012 the film was shown in Neustädter Münster and accompanied on the organ by church music director Volker Linz .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORGANpromotion - OrganKINO. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Mathias Rehfeldt composed music for a silent film on the organ in Weggental. Retrieved November 28, 2019 (German).