The lost shoe
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The lost shoe |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ludwig Berger |
| script | Ludwig Berger based on templates by the Brothers Grimm , ETA Hoffmanns and Clemens Brentanos |
| production | Erich Pommer for Decla-Bioscop on behalf of UFA (Berlin) |
| music | Guido Bagier |
| camera |
Günther Krampf Otto Baecker |
| occupation | |
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The lost shoe is a German silent fairy tale film from 1923 by Ludwig Berger with Paul Hartmann and Mady Christians in the leading roles.
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Berger's staging is closely based on the Cinderella fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm . In this story, the leading actress is called Marie von Cucoli. Her widowed father has married a new wife, Countess Benrat, who brings two daughters, Violante and Estella, into this relationship. While she fondles her own daughters like princesses, Marie from then on experiences deeply neglected treatment by the new lady of the house.
Herr von Cucoli is a lean, little man and cannot help but control the dominant nature of his domineering new wife. It takes the resolute intervention of Marie's godmother to put an end to Marie's miserable existence with her and her servant's help. From then on, the pretty girl was also lucky in love: at a ball she met the handsome Hereditary Prince Anselm Franz, who immediately fell in love with Marie. Thanks to magical powers, the two come together, and the terror regime of Countess Benrat and her two spoiled daughters comes to an abrupt end.
Production notes
The lost shoe was filmed from the end of April to October 1923 in the Ufa studio in Neubabelsberg and on the open-air site in Neubabelsberg . The five-act film was censored on December 3, 1923, was released for young people and premiered on December 5, 1923 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo .
Director Berger had discovered his leading actress Helga Thomas for the film the year before (1922) and gave her the role of Abigail in his Eugène Scribe film adaptation of A Glass of Water . Mady Christians and Lucie Höflich also starred in this film , whom Berger also cast again in Der verlorene Schuh .
Director Berger's brother Rudolf Bamberger and his partner Heinrich Heuser created the film structures, Maria Willenz created the extensive costumes. Eduard Kubat and Max Wogritsch acted as production managers .
The Brothers Grimm fairy tale Cinderella served as one of the literary models .
Reviews
Contemporary criticism
In Paimann's film lists you can read: "The old fairy tale in an adaptation that allows the most cinematic possibilities, quite appealing and in some places very atmospheric. The representation is excellent in all roles, the presentation is generous and the trick scenes are technically perfect. The photography deserves unreserved praise. "
“It was more than a great film success, it was the breakthrough of a special German film, not to be copied in any country and therefore effective in every country. The film is not German because of its material. (...) This film is German because it contrasts the language of the German fairy tale with something organically equivalent. "
"... a cinematic act in which an advanced, technical skill can be admired to the same extent as esprit, charm and the most cultural aesthetics."
Later reviews
“The German film directors have developed more and more instinct for the costume issue. Any verism of former theater requisite stuff has long since disappeared. Robison and Ludwig Berger indulge in MANON LESCAUT and in the LOST SHOE by showing subdued velvet reflections, illuminating trickling, half-wrinkled silk surfaces. "
"With Der verlorene Schuh (1923), a paraphrase of the fairy tale of Cinderella, he turned out to be one of the few German directors who were able to master the particular difficulties of fantasy films ..."
Web links
- The lost shoe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The lost shoe at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The lost shoe in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 11, 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.
