The dancing gate (1926)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The dancing gate |
| Original title | Klovnen |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| length | 3125 meters, at 20 fps 128 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | AW Sandberg |
| script | Poul Knudsen and AW Sandberg |
| production | Nordisk Film Kompagni |
| music | Walter Schrøder |
| camera | Christians Jørgensen |
| occupation | |
and Philip Bech , Karen Caspersen , Ernst van Duren , Jacoba Jessen , Mathilde Nielsen , Peter Nielsen , Holger Pedersen , Henry Seemann . | |
The dancing gate is the German title of the silent film drama Klovnen , which Anders W. Sandberg realized in 1926 for Nordisk Film Kompagni in Denmark . He had already dealt with the subject under the same title in 1917. He wrote the script together with Poul Knudsen . The title role, which Valdemar Psilander had played in 1917 , was now given to the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman, known from Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's “Faust” film .
background
Walter Schrøder composed the illustration music. The film structures were built by Carlo Jacobsen and Poul Kanneworff . Screenwriter Poul Knudsen changed the old, rather “naive” script, written as early as 1916, into a tragic story, without losing sight of Sandberg's preference for happy endings .
The remake of Der tanzende Tor premiered in Denmark on October 30, 1926 and was internationally successful. The film was also shown in Germany, Austria, England, France, Spain and Portugal, and even in Finland and Brazil. In Denmark it was made by the Fotorama , in Germany by the Deutsch-Nordische Film-Union GmbH. awarded. The distributor for Austria was Lux-Film .
In Germany and Austria, like its predecessor from 1917, the film was shown under the title “The dancing gate”; in the English-speaking rental business, it was called The Golden Clown .
reception
Hans Sahl discussed the film " The dancing gate ", which was shown in the Berlin UT Kurfürstendamm, both in the morning edition of the Berliner Börsen-Courier , vol. 59, no. 533 of November 14, 1926, 3. Beil, p. 14, as well as in Der Montag Morgen , vol. 4, no. 46 of November 15, 1926, p. 4.
"It is not easy to say why this film was so successful. It is probably the symbiosis of the revised screenplay, the artistic cinematic handwriting and the star cast. Sandberg was also able to find an excellent Danish actor for the role of clown Joe for the remake Higgins win. Gösta Ekman had already proven his acting skills in the "Faust" film adaptation of Murnau, with which he was known in Germany. The cast of Daisy was less spectacular. Karina Bell was, like Ekman, a celebrated Danish star. " (Denis Peters, January 28, 2012)
“AW Sandberg's The Golden Clown fits somewhere between the lovelorn and the macabre, its story mirroring in many ways that of the real-life Deburau, or at least his myth. Working the hinterlands in a tight-knit, family-owned circus in France, Joe Higgins (Gösta Ekman) plays a version of Pierrot, surprising the local crowd with his talent by singing a sad and beautiful song inspired by his love for the circus owner's daughter. A Somebody from the Big City happens to be in the audience and the clown goes from sideshow to star in an instant, changing the entire family's fate. They are thrust into the high life of Jazz Age Paris. Swanky hotels, fine dining, and all the couture money can buy are not enough, and the clown's once easy-to-please girl, finally his wife, seeks out other urban pleasures. (The real-life Deburau's trouble began when he murdered a man who insulted his wife. Crowds turned out for his trial to hear the great mime finally speak. Marcel Carné later told a version of his story in 1945's The Children of Paradise .) ” (Shari Kizirian)
The writer Palle Rosenkranz wrote a “Novel on the Film” based on the script for “The Dancing Gate” in 1926, which was published in German in 1928 in the authorized translation by Else von Hollander-Lossow by Gefion-Verlag Berlin.
Egon Monk mentions in his article about Hans Christian Andersen in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit No. 31 of July 27, 1979 the novel “The dancing gate” by “Baron Palle Rosenkrantz” [sic].
The Danish Film Museum brought out the 1926 film “The dancing gate” together with another Sandberg film (“ Nedbrudte Nierver ” / The Hill Park Mystery (1923)) in a restored and viraged version on DVD; Ronen Thalmay took over the piano accompaniment.
Audio documents
The title hit for the film by Alexander Schirmann was reissued in 1926 with the remake of "Der tanzende Tor". It appeared in Germany in the spring of 1927 on two gramophone records that were now electrically recorded:
- VOX 3608 E (mx. 1222 BB) The song of the dancing gate, from the film "The dancing gate" (A. Schirmann). Max Kuttner , tenor, with orchestra accompaniment. Up. in February 1927
- Gramophone 20 801 (mx. 117 bh) The song of the dancing gate, from the film "The dancing gate" (A. Schirmann). Hans Schwarz, tenor, with the Paul Godwin Ensemble. Mech.copyr. 1927.
literature
- Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
- Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Decisions d. Film censorship. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart. 1911-1920. Saur, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-598-10067-1 .
- Manfred Engelbert, Burkhard Pohl, Udo Schöning (eds.): Markets, media, intermediaries. Case studies on the intercultural networking of literature and film. (= Göttingen contributions to the nationality, internationality and intermediality of literature and film. Volume 1). Wallstein Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-89244-415-3 , p. 246.
- Shari Kizirian: The Golden Clown, 1926. Essay. In: San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014. online at silentfilm.org
- Fritz Leopold (Ed.): The Erwin Ackerknecht estate: a directory. (= German literature archive: directories, reports, information. Volume 17). German Schiller Society, 1995, ISBN 3-929146-38-X .
- Peter Mänz, Filmmuseum Berlin / TV Museum - Deutsche Kinemathek: When I go to my cinema on Sundays: sound, film, music 1929–1933. Verlag Kettler, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-74-6 , p. 14.
- Denis Peters: The dancing gate (Klovnen). January 28, 2012, at: Silent Film Symposium Heidelberg, online at wordpress.com
- Palle Rosenkrantz: The dancing gate. After AW Sandberg's and Poul Knudsen's film of the same name. Translation by Else von Hollander-Lossow. Gefion-Verlag, Berlin 1928.
- Daniel Wiegand: Image forms of loneliness. Figure, space and gaze construction in the Danish silent film Klovnen (1926). In: wall show, construction / deconstruction. 1, 2009, pp. 104-119. (PDF)
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.
Web links
- The dancing Tor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Klovnen at Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Imdb / releaseinfo
- ↑ cf. Leopold: The Erwin Ackerknecht estate, pp. 47–48.
- ↑ cf. ZVAB ; Fig. Of the frontispiece (Gösta Ekman as Clown Joe) and the first page at woldpress.com
- ↑ cf. Books of the world: world literature, recommended by ZEIT. Verlag epubli, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-6303-1 .
- ↑ cf. edition-filmmuseum.com
- ↑ The “Lied vom tanzenden Toren” had already been published by CMRoehr in 1915 in the Berlin music publishing house, the text was composed by Valdemar Psilander . Fig. Of the music title in the image section at Zglinicki and ZVAB ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed May 13, 2014)
