The strangler of the world
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| Original title | The strangler of the world |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | approx. 72 (1919) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | EA Dupont |
| script | EA Dupont Guido Kreutzer |
| production | Julius Stern for Stern-Film, Berlin |
| camera | Charles Paulus |
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Der Würger der Welt is a German silent detective film from 1919 by EA Dupont with Max Landa in the leading role.
action
Professor Georg Melville is a recognized medical researcher. During his experiments he came across a life-threatening bacillus with which, if injected subcutaneously, the entire human race could be exterminated in a very short time. Melville himself becomes his first victim, and his assistant McLean and daughter Eugenie then attempt to take the murderous substance out of circulation. But then the substance is stolen. Then the detective Max Landa is asked for help. He tries to secure the ampoule with the bacillus so that it doesn't get into the wrong hands. But the dangerous opponents, known as nihilists , want to bring chaos and ruin to people by possessing the deadly weapon.
Soon a race for life and death takes place between the detective and the central representative of the nihilists, the Russian Boris Alschkin. His lover Sonja is sitting between the chairs. The detective receives support from his assistant Barnes and the student Iwan Newela. At first the nihilists prevail and now use their deadly weapon to blackmail the American business tycoon Selkirk, who had made his immeasurable fortune in the sugar trade. It comes to nerve-wracking chases in which Landa can steal the villain's deadly weapon and free the world from the stranglehold of evil. In a man-to-man aerial battle, the detective kills Aleschkin.
Production notes
The Strangler of the World is considered to be the oldest surviving film by Dupont and reflects the general concern about the chaotic events in Bolshevik, civil war-torn Russia in the early post-war period. It is the 5th film in the Max Landa detective film series 1919/20. It passed film censorship in December 1919. That month, Der Würger der Welt was shown for the first time in Berlin's Mozart Hall. The mass start was on January 2, 1920, in Austria the strip started on January 14, 1921. The five-act act measured 1496 meters when it was first performed, after being re-censored on April 4, 1921, it was insignificantly shortened to 1430 meters.
The film structures were designed by Robert A. Dietrich .
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The material is fantastic. Photos, game and scenery excellent. "
“Dupont proves to be a master of the genre: rapid parallel montages and a camera that is extremely flexible for the time characterize his style. A tracking shot, with the help of which the individual couples of an evening party are brought into the picture in motion, is formally one of the finest that the cinema of the 10s produced. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The strangler of the world in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Strangler of the World on stummfilm.at
