The Captain of Köpenick (Buderus, 1906)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The captain of Koepenick |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1906 |
| length | about 20 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Carl Buderus Carl Sonnemann |
| production | Carl Buderus for mechanical workshops for cinema set construction Carl Buderus, Hanover |
| camera | Carl Buderus Adolf Peck Karl Hasselmann |
| occupation | |
and Karl Hasselmann, Adolf Peck, Georg Bock, Fritz Keil, Harry Heimers, Emil Wernicke, Ernst Lewecke, the carpenter Ortmann (as pub owner) and a theater hairdresser (as city secretary) | |
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick is a short German silent film satire by Carl Buderus from 1906.
action
The most important events of October 16, 1906 are retold with a strongly humorous undertone in short scenes. The shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt "loots" a captain's uniform, subordinates a group of guards to his command and drives with them to Köpenick to "requisition the city treasury in the town hall there ".
Production notes
The captain von Köpenick is a typical example of how certain real events were satirized with the satirical-comedic stylistic devices of early silent films in the German Empire. The film, which is only 218 meters long, was shot immediately after the actual Köpenickiade on October 16, 1906 and screened that same year.
Carl Buderus owned a company for cinematographic equipment in Hanover ; all contributors to this film are his employees. For Karl Hasselmann this was the beginning of a long career as a cameraman.
The film has no studio recordings and was shot entirely in Hanover. The Koepenick train station was recreated in Buderus' office building, Emmerberg 30; The gym in Maschstrasse served as the Köpenick town hall. Further film decorations were set up in the garden of the Buderus company.
This film is one of a total of three light plays that reacted directly to the events of October 1906. Also in 1906, the Berlin producer Alfred Duskes produced a Captain von Köpenick with the cinematograph owner Ernst Baumann in the title role. The director was there Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers . In the same year the Internationale Kinematographen- und Lichteffekt GmbH, Berlin, produced another Köpenick film with the actors of the Berlin Luisentheater. Buderus' production, however, is considered to be the most sophisticated and professional (by the standards of the time).
Except for Sonnemann, carpenter and theater hairdresser, the actors were all mechanics from the Buderus company. Except for Karl Hasselmann, who became a well-known cameraman, no one seems to have made a major career, at least in film.
criticism
A century later, the assessment of this film said: "The version from 1906 has the allure of the contemporary: You can see from the subjects how much fun it is for them to show how the subject-state functions down to the comic."
Individual evidence
Web links
- The Captain of Koepenick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The captain of Köpenick at filmportal.de