The golem and the dancer

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Movie
Original title The golem and the dancer
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1917
Rod
Director Paul Wegener
script Paul Wegener
production Paul Davidson
for PAGU, Berlin
camera Mads Anton Madsen
occupation

The Golem and the Dancer is a German silent film parody from 1917 by and with Paul Wegener .

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With this film, director and leading actor Paul Wegener parodically reverts to the subject of the Golem film, in which he embodied the eponymous clay colossus three years earlier.

About the content: The young dancer Jela Olschevska has heard a lot about the famous art film The Golem and therefore decides to see it in the next movie theater. As luck would have it, the then Golem actor Paul Wegener is also present, who wants to know the audience's reaction. When Wegener sees the dancer, he is immediately inflamed by her and from then on seeks the closeness of the beautiful.

Wegener tries everything to win Jela's heart, but the coveted lady is extremely brittle at first and lets him ignore all his efforts. However, she is fascinated by the idea of ​​buying the clay figure admired on the screen and asks the film director about this. When Wegener found out about it, this was the reason to slip into the role of the golem again. The production company already wants to bag the Golem figure Jela wanted, and Wegener interferes.

For him this is the ideal opportunity to finally be close to his loved one. Well packaged, it can be sent to the young lady's apartment as a golem figure. Once there, it is set up by Holden as an eye-catcher in her salon. Now a series of amusing entanglements begin, which the disguised as a golem causes in his terrifying masquerade.

Production notes

The film, which was made in the early months of 1917, was censored in April of the same year and had its world premiere in mid-1917. Designed by Wegener as light-handed film fun, it has nothing to do with the two Golem horror film classics of 1914 and 1920.

Wegener shot this film as a relaxing finger exercise during the creation of his fairy tale trilogy (1916–1918). His permanent collaborator in those years, the set designer Rochus Gliese , also designed the film structures here, stepped briefly in front of the camera and also assisted Wegener in directing it. The then 16-year-old Reinhardt student Fritz Feld made his film debut here under his maiden name Friedrich "Fritz" Feilchenfeld. He played a bellboy and would later have a successful career as a supporting actor in Hollywood . The production managers were Hanns Lippmann and Siegmund Jakob .

The recordings were made in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof . The film is now considered lost.

Reviews

The Breslauer Zeitung wrote: "There is a lot to laugh about in the lovely four-act Capriccio."

The Hallesche Zeitung wrote: “The film gives an insight into life and goings-on in the recording studio, which makes it particularly attractive. The whole thing is a very well-done joke [...] "

The Hamburger Nachrichten stated: “In this film, too, the important Wegener fate, which exhausts the possibilities of film technology to the extreme, celebrates a true triumph. Whether in seriousness or horror, whether in joke and joke - Paul Wegener always remains true to himself. "

The Hessische Landeszeitung reads: “The joking images and ideas flutter past with graceful serenity. [...] A delicious evening awaits the visitors. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Breslauer Zeitung of July 15, 1917
  2. ^ Hallesche Zeitung of July 15, 1917
  3. ^ Hamburger Nachrichten of August 26, 1917
  4. ↑ Hessische Landeszeitung from October 18, 1917

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