The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Fedor Ozep Erich Engels (dialogue director) |
| script |
Leonhard Frank Fedor Ozep Victor Trivas |
| production |
Curt Melnitz Ralph Scotoni for Terra-Film AG |
| music |
Karol Town Hall Kurt Schröder |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Fedor Ozep Hans from Passavant |
| occupation | |
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The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff is a 1930 German movie drama with Fritz Kortner in the title role. This adaptation of the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was directed by Fedor Ozep .
action
The tsarist lieutenant Dimitri Karamasoff wants to marry his bride Katja. For this he has to deposit the high amount of 3,000 rubles in the regiment in Moscow . Dimitri doesn't have that much money and therefore travels to his father to ask him to give him this sum. However, his father, who allegedly owes his son money, is unwilling. He neither wants to leave this sum to him nor does he even have time for him. The old man's thoughts are currently only about the pretty Gruschenka, who had become a prostitute through a former lover and who turned old Karamazov's head.
Dimitri visits the young woman in her establishment to dissuade her from his father. But she just makes fun of him. However, during a violent argument, which is more and more erotically charged, the two get closer. Gruschenka does not reciprocate Dimitri's feelings at first and plays with him, while Dimitri falls passionately in love with the girl. In the meantime Katja has not remained inactive; she got the 3,000 rubles she needed. When she learns that her future groom is having an affair with another woman, she is affected, but still wants to marry him. Arrived at the station for the purpose of leaving together, she waits in vain for Dimitri. And so Katja travels alone.
That same evening, Dimitri's father is found dead in his apartment. Dimitri is suspected of having murdered the old man. The reason is presumed to be jealousy, since both were now in competition for Gruschenka's favor. Ivan Karamasoff, the younger brother, tries to prove Dimitri's innocence. Dimitri is found guilty in the trial and sent into exile in Siberia, where he has to do forced labor. Gruschenka accompanies him. The real perpetrator, the servant Smerdjakoff, has evaded charge and conviction. He hanged himself after Ivan Karamazoff had wrested a confession from him and wanted to bring him before the court.
Production notes
The shooting took place from October 22nd to November 24th, 1930.
The premiere of the film took place on February 6, 1931 in the Berlin Capitol Cinema . The film was released for young people aged 12 and over and was given the title “Artistic”.
Heinrich C. Richter and Victor Trivas designed the buildings , Hermann Birkhofer was responsible for the sound. The production line concerned Eugen Tuscherer .
The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff was the first sound film by Russian-born Anna Sten and at the same time the only sound film by theater veteran Max Pohl . Bernhard Minetti made his film debut here.
In the same year, 1931, the film was also shown in the USA and Japan. In 1932 further premieres followed in Denmark, Spain and Turkey.
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films called the film a "masterpiece from the early days of German sound films".
Reclam's film guide sums up: “The Russian director Ozep mainly savored the moods in his film. Train rides, evenings at Karamasoff's house, even exuberant celebrations turn into gloomy visions of impending doom. Kortner plays Dimitri as someone who has been hunted and, as it were, born to doom; the love scenes with Anna Sten also seem to be marked by the future catastrophe. "
Bucher's Encyclopedia of Film speaks of an "almost decadent expressionist design" in the film.
literature
- Rudolf Freund and Eva Hahm The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 244 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- The killer Dimitri Karamazov in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff in filmportal.de