The trembling mountain

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Movie
German title The night of knowledge
Original title The trembling mountain
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1931
length 2725 m, 100 minutes
Rod
Director Hanns Beck-Gaden , Luitpold Nusser
script Luitpold Nusser based on a film novella by D. Hugo Rütters
production Georg Ernst , Leo-Film AG, Munich
music Alexander Laszló
camera Karl Attenberger
occupation

also: Fritz Müller

The quaking mountain is the title of a high mountain drama that Hanns Beck-Gaden filmed for Leo-Film AG (Munich) in 1931 based on a manuscript by Luitpold Nusser , who was also a co-director. The template was a film novella by D. Hugo Rütters, who also wrote the dialogues. The film was originally started in silence, the sound version was produced by Tobis-Melofilm GmbH. in the Atelier Nationalhof, Berlin.

action

A mountain railway is to be built in a previously untouched mountain region in the Alps, which will bring tourists there and big money with them. During the construction of the railway, however, an accident occurs which is interpreted as a hint of fate not to intervene in nature. The large-scale project, which began with considerable propaganda effort, did not materialize.

background

“The quaking mountain” was advertised as the “first mountain sound film”. It was a production by Leo-Film AG Munich, which the Catholic workers' association functionary Georg Ernst had founded in 1917. She first made films with a religious content, but then also made cultural and feature films.

The outdoor shots took place in the village of Namlos in the Lech Valley and on the Zugspitze . The camera work was done by Karl Attenberger .

The film was submitted to the Reich Film Censorship for examination on September 22, 1931. The world premiere took place in Munich on October 2, 1931, and the film was shown in Berlin cinemas on November 17, 1931. It was also shown in Belgium under the Flemish title De bevende Berg and the French title Le Mont qui tremble . It was also performed under the title “The Night of Knowledge”. It was awarded by the National-Film AG Berlin.

The music for the film was written by the Hungarian pianist and composer Alexander László , who became famous for his synaesthetic attempts with a colored light piano . It not only had an illustrative, but also a dramatic function (e.g. the "Song of the Mountain Railway"). The music synchronization was carried out according to the Gerst-Thun method.

  • Sound documents:

With Alexander László on the piano, the Ilja Livschakoff orchestra recorded two pieces of music from the film on “Grammophon” in 1931 for the Leo film:

  • Snowflake Fox (Alexander László) gramophone 24 211 (Matr. 4174 bd)
  • I saw happiness this evening. English Waltz (Alexander László) gramophone 24 211 (Matr. 4172 bd)

Orchestra Ilja Livschakoff with vocals Paul Dorn , on the piano the composer. Mech. Cop. 1931

  • Conservation:

According to artechock.de, only 64 minutes are left of the original 100-minute film. The copy available at the Federal Film Archive (archive signature: 18468) is 1753 meters long.

reception

The film was reviewed in:

  • Deutsche Film-Zeitung No. 40, 1931, p. 10f.
  • Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 1627, 13th year 1931 (Berlin)
  • Illustrated film courier No. 268/1931 (Vienna)

literature

  • Ernst Jäger, Heinrich Lewinski: Ernst Jäger, film critic. (= Film & writing. Volume 2). Verlag Edition Text & Critique, 2006, ISBN 3-88377-805-2 , p. 66.
  • Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films: Born in 1931 (= German sound films: film lexicon of the full-length German and German-language sound films after their German premieres . Volume 2). Verlag Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
  • Helmut Korte: The feature film and the end of the Weimar Republic: an attempt at the history of reception . Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 3-525-20714-X , pp. 174, 456, 493.
  • Dorit-Maria Krenn: The Christian workers' movement in Bavaria from the First World War to 1933 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History: Research, Commission for Contemporary History. Volume 57). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 1991, ISBN 3-7867-1551-3 , p. 605.
  • Nancy P. Nenno: Postcards from the Edge. Education to Tourism in Greman Mountain Films. In: Randall Halle, Margaret McCarthy (Ed.): Light Motives - German Popular Film in Perspective (= Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media / Contemporary film and television series ). Wayne State University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8143-3045-2 , pp. 61-84, here pp. 77 and 81
  • Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch: Stories and pictures from the German dream factory . Karl-May-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , p. 65.
  • Christian Rapp: Höhenrausch: the German mountain film. Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 1997, p. 274.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Saal: Chronicle of contemporary German history: politics, economy, culture. Volume 1: The Weimar Republic. Bow Historical Books, 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0571-6 , p. 555.
  • Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Ernst Gall (Ed.): Journal for art history. Volume 60, Verlag W. de Gruyter & Company, 1997, pp. 36, 135.

Web links

Illustrations:

  • Cinema Poster "Le Mont qui tremble / De bevende Mountain" from Belgium, bilingual.
  • Hanns Beck-Gaden , the director, on the "Ross" postcard No. 334 (Photo from the Hermann Plappert studio, Munich)
  • Photos by Hanna Waag at Virtual History

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Jäger-Lewinski p. 66.
  2. ↑ cf. Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig: Archive for book trade and commercial graphics ..., Volume 70, issues 1-6. Verlag A. Waldow, 1932, p. 72.
  3. ↑ cf. Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia, ed. v. Hans-Michael Körner, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2005, p. 469.
  4. ↑ cf. Censorship no. B.07460 Night of Knowledge (another title) from Birett, sources on film history.
  5. ↑ cf. IMDb release info
  6. ↑ s. Klaus, Deutsche Tonfilme, Jg. 1931, p. 26 No. 009.31; not to be confused with “ The Night of Knowledge ”, the “first German sound disc lecture film” in which Ruth Weyher and Fritz Kortner could be seen, cf. Cinema posters at Stimme.de and filmportal.de/stoffen ("Record illustration for the silent film" Schatten "from 1923")
  7. ↑ “Colored Light Music”, cf. Caroline Ammann in the dictionary of film terms
  8. ↑ “In 1931 the mountain film“ Der quivering Berg ”(“ Night of Knowledge ”, director: Hanns Beck-Gaden / Luitpold Nusser) was made, in which Laszló wrote the music and his wife wrote the lyrics, songs like“ Das Lied der Bergbahn ”” , see. Waetzold-Gall p. 36.
  9. ↑ cf. Klaus, Deutsche Tonfilme, Jg. 1931, p. 27 note, on this article “Technique of the Organon Synchronization Process Thun-Gerst” in Filmkurier No. 119 (a) of May 23, 1931.
  10. ↑ listen on youtube
  11. ↑ “Grammophon” label “Snowflake Fox” at ytimg.com (accessed September 18, 2019)
  12. ↑ cf. Nenno, in Halle-McCarthy, p. 81 and p. 77: “ Weimar-era audiences rejected the mountain film's story lines as formulaic and trite, expressions of“ kitsch and struggle ”(“ Bebender Berg ”[review] 10) while simultaneously glorying in the spectacle of the alpine landscape . "
  13. ↑ cover page shown. at wolfgang-siska.at (accessed September 18, 2019)
  14. ↑ cover page shown. at img.com (accessed September 18, 2019)