The dreaming mouth (1932)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The dreaming mouth |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Czinner |
| script | Paul Czinner |
| production | Marcel Hellmann |
| music |
Ludwig van Beethoven Richard Wagner |
| camera |
Jules Kruger René Ribault |
| cut | Erich Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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The dreaming mouth is a German-French fictional film by Paul Czinner from 1932 based on the play Mélo by Henri Bernstein .
action
Orchestra musician Peter does not take sufficient care of his young wife Gaby. When she met Peter's childhood friend Michael, she fell in love with the violin virtuoso, but from now on lived with a remorse. On the one hand, she does not believe in the continuation of her marriage to Peter, on the other hand, she does not want to break out of a secure married life. When Peter fell seriously ill, she turned to her husband again. But the love for Michael is stronger. Desperate and without belief in a way out of her predicament, she takes her own life.
background
The film was shot in 1932 as the German version of the French original version Mélo in Paris in the Pathé-Nathan studios. The premiere took place on September 14, 1932. In the French version, Gaby Morlay , Pierre Blanchar and Victor Francen play the leading roles.
Director Paul Czinner and theater star Elisabeth Bergner were also a couple in private. This film should be their last film together in Germany. They fled to England in 1933 and got married there. Czinner and Bergner shot a remake of this film in 1937 in Great Britain, Dreaming Lips . A further remake was created in 1952 in Germany, directed by Josef von Báky with Maria Schell and OW Fischer .
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : The last joint German film by the artist couple Elisabeth Bergner and Paul Czinner, who emigrated in 1932, is a sensitively staged and performed adaptation of the melodrama by Henry Bernstein , which has been filmed several times , impressively above all as a precisely interpreted study of women.
- Lichtbild-Bühne on September 15, 1932: The tension and the concentration of emotions inherent in every Bergner film are something unique that cannot be integrated in any direction. The films by Elisabeth Bergner and her director Paul Czinner are without a doubt the most individual artistic achievements on the international film market. They are the expression of strong personalities with a creative drive of their own.
literature
- Fred Gehler The dreaming mouth . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 306 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- The Dreaming mouth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dreaming mouth at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dreaming mouth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 14, 2017 .