The dancing gate (1917)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The dancing gate |
| Original title | Klovnen |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | 67 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | AW Sandberg |
| script | AW Sandberg Laurids Skands based on a template by Carl Alstrup and Else Frølich |
| production | Nordisk Film , Copenhagen |
| camera | Karl Storm Petersen |
| occupation | |
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The dancing gate is a Danish silent film drama by AW Sandberg from 1917 with Valdemar Psilander in the title role.
action
The film starts with a prologue in which Waldemar Psilander recites lines specially composed with the lute. Then the film begins.
Joe Higgins works as a clown at a traveling circus. He is very happily married to the director's daughter, Daisy, with whom he practically grew up in the circus. One day he is made a tempting offer by an international impresario: he should switch to the capital's circus. Joe steps in and moves into the capital with his wife and parents. Joe quickly celebrated great success there with his variety shows, until one day he had to look through a mirror as his wife, who had some difficulties finding her way in the new, affluent life, let a strange man kiss her. It comes to a head, and during this turbulent discussion Daisy confesses that she would love the stranger, Robert Maxwell (in the Danish original: Count Henri), who attended the variety shows evening after evening and skilfully hooked up with Daisy behind the stage. Desperate, Joe lets his wife go.
One year later. Robert has long since shown his true character, his feelings for her have cooled down mightily. Accompanied by friends, Robert and Daisy visit a night café. There Daisy meets Joe again and asks him to forgive him as she bitterly regrets her step of leaving him. But he refuses with a contemptuous expression. Daisy tries desperately to take her own life and jumps into the water. She is saved, but only in the hour of her death can she reconcile with ex-husband Joe. Daisy tells him that he was the only true love in her life. Joe Higgins swears on his deathbed that he would kill the man who did all this to her should he ever meet him again.
The aging clown, gray and tired, has returned to his roots, a small traveling circus. One day he saw Robert in the audience. Organized with rage, Joe takes the revolver needed for his act and shoots his old rival over in the middle of the performance. The audience applauds enthusiastically, believing this is part of the performance. The sad clown utters a prayer into the sky: “Daisy, let me come to you!”. Then the dancing gate dies of a heartbeat .
Production notes
The film, produced by Nordisk Film at the end of 1916 , premiered on May 7, 1917 in Copenhagen . In Austria, where the film was banned from young people, "Der tanzende Tor" was released on October 5, 1917 in Vienna. In Germany, too, where the film could also be seen under the second title Der Klown , it opened in the same year; an exact premiere date is currently not known.
"The Dancing Gate" was one of Psilander's last films; He did not experience the worldwide success (especially in Germany) - Psilander died two months before the premiere.
The film structures come from the well-known Copenhagen set designer Axel Bruun .
In 1926, director Sandberg staged a remake of his film under the same title Klovnen . This film was also called The dancing gate in Germany . This time Gösta Ekman played the role of Joe Higgins .
Film music
The title hit “ The song of the dancing fool ” comes from the composer and cinema bandmaster Alexander Schirmann . The composition "Der tanzende Tor: Entr'Act und Lied" was published in 1915 by CM Roehr in Berlin, the text was composed by Valdemar Psilander.
- Issue of notes:
The song of the dancing fool. From the film “The dancing gate” with Valdemar Psilander. Music: Alexander Schirmann. For voice with piano or harp accompaniment. Publisher CM Roehr, Mauerstrasse, 76 - Berlin. Pub. No .: A.Sch. 3. 4 ll.
- Sound documents:
Anker Record No. 906 (mat.?): “" The dancing gate ": Entr'Act und Lied” by A. Schirmann. Anker string orchestra.
Homokord 15 776 (in wax : M 5 K, A 9 5 18): The song of the dancing gate, from the movie "The dancing gate" (A. Schirmann). Singing, with orchestra.
Beka 30 144 (mx. 30 144): "The dancing gate" - song (Alexander Schirmann). Emil Severin , baritone with orchestra. Up. on August 30, 1918
criticism
In Paimann's film lists you can read: “The material, photos and scenery are excellent. Great game. (The greatest hit of all Psilander films [e].) "
Web links
- The dancing gate at Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
- The dancing Tor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dancing gate in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the original: Count Henri
- ↑ In “Black Dream and White Slave. German-Danish film relations 1910–1930. A CineGraph book, Munich 1994 ", it says on page 149:" In Denmark and Germany the admiration of the attractive actor decreased, who was gradually able to break free from stereotyped clichés (doctor and amateur roles) and who became highly ambivalent towards the end of his career Characters alluded to (last film: KLOVNEN / DER TANZENDE TOR, 1916), downright cultic traits. "
- ↑ Fig. Of the sheet music title with illustration by Oskar Theuer in the picture part with Friedrich von Zglinicki: Der Weg des Films. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin, Rembrandt Verlag 1956, and on the web at imagesmusicales.be
- ↑ OCLC number: 477350457, cf. worldcat.org
- ↑ up. on Dec. 5, 1916, pressed on May 9, 1918, after “On the dating of Homocord records” at grammophon-platten.de
- ↑ cf. Chr. Zwarg, BEKA Matrix Numbers - 30000 to 30172: German, PDF on line , p. 20
- ↑ The dancing gate in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 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.
