Maria Schnee's shepherd
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Maria Schnee's shepherd |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | 123 (1920), 107 and 105 (1921) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Iwa Raffay |
| script | Iwa Raffay |
| production | Bruno Decarli |
| music | Ferdinand Hummel |
| camera |
Carl Hoffmann Charles Paulus |
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Maria Schnee's Shepherd is a German silent film made in 1919 by Iwa Raffay . The title role was played by the film's producer, Bruno Decarli .
action
One day Countess Myrja meets a simple shepherd in the great outdoors, for whom she is instantly inflamed in love. But he rejects her, because he wants to go to a monastery to seek distance from the worldly temptations and to find peace. From then on, the noblewoman saw the shepherd in all possible forms, and it was her fate to be rejected by him again and again: This is how Myrja appears, who now wandered restlessly through the world, the shepherd sometimes as the Parisian poet Count Dorian, who took her away then as an Arab Husen, who is to be stoned to death for infidelity, and finally as the carter Firfanoff. The shepherd has meanwhile become a monk, and when the two meet again one day in their true forms, the shepherd and monk is unfaithful to his new calling and surrenders to the countess “in sin”. But now God punishes his misstep and lets the chapel he is in collapse on top of him. The mystery of faith, however, is fulfilled in the fact that the church bell suddenly rings and Schubert's Ave Maria sounds without a bell ringer.
Production notes
Maria Schnee's Shepherd , a “mystery in 6 acts”, as the subtitle reveals, was made in the fall of 1919 in the Berlin Eiko-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Marienfelde and in the Bioscope-Atelier in Neubabelsberg , passed the film censorship and in December of the same year was premiered in March 1920 in Berlin's Schauburg. The length of the film was 2542 meters in the first version, divided into five acts, with the new censorship on February 9, 1921, 2446 meters, or 2410 after cuts.
Heinrich C. Richter created the film structures .
criticism
“Very interesting, monumental in its exposition and artistic in its execution. (…) The painterly arrangement of the interiors, which prefers the rotunda, shows [sic!] The uncommon artistic taste and ability. (...) But the open-air recordings are also at the height of art-loving observation. (…) Found the main female role of Countess Myrja, who showed strong moments especially for expressing the erotic. The ensemble has artistic representatives throughout. Carl Hoffmann's photography and Heinrich Richter's architecture deserve special praise. "