The white intoxication - new wonders of the snowshoe
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The white intoxication - new wonders of the snowshoe |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arnold Fanck |
| script | Arnold Fanck |
| production | Harry R. Sokal for Sokal Film GmbH, Althoff-Amboss-Film AG |
| music |
Paul Dessau , Fritz Goldschmidt |
| camera |
Richard Angst , Hans Karl Gottschalk , Bruno Leubner , Kurt Neubert |
| cut | Arnold Fanck |
| occupation | |
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The white intoxication - new wonders of the snowshoe is a comedy by the director Arnold Fanck with Leni Riefenstahl in the leading role.
action
The film is about the young girl Leni who wants to take part in a ski race during her winter vacation on the Arlberg . She is taught to ski by the ski instructor Hannes, Hannes Schneider . The two Hamburg carpenters Tietje and Fietje, Walter Riml and Gustav Lantschner , also want to win the race, but they teach themselves to ski by themselves . The two groups meet again and again. Ultimately, Leni wins the beginners' race with the help of little Lothar, played by Lothar Ebersberg .
In the next year, everyone involved will be back together and take part in a fox hunt in which Leni and Hannes represent the pair of foxes. Due to the clumsiness of the two Hamburgers, the couple manage to escape again and again. Only little Lothar can put them both at the end.
production
The photography in the studio was done by Hans Karl Gottschalk and Bruno Leubner, the outdoor shots in St. Anton and Zürs am Arlberg were shot by Richard Angst and Kurt Neubert; The camera assistant was Robert Dahlmeier. The sound recordings were made by Emil Specht, assisted by Hans Bittmann. Manager was Walter Tost . The film buildings were built by Leopold Blonder . The illustration music was composed by Paul Dessau , assisted by Fritz Goldschmidt. The film was a production by HR Sokal-Film GmbH (Berlin) on behalf of Aafa-Film AG (Berlin). The producer was Henry Sokal.
The White Rush - New Wonders of the Snowshoe was submitted to the Reich Film Censorship on December 9, 1931 for review and was premiered on December 10, 1931 in the UFA-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
Movie review
The lexicon of the international film is enthusiastic about the landscape and ski shots on the Arlberg , but notes: "The thin plot is just the starting point for the presentation of skiing with the best skiers of the time."
precursor
The film The White Rush - New Wonders of the Snowshoe was the third film adaptation of the topic. The wonder of the snowshoe - part 1 was premiered in 1920. The second part followed in 1922. Hannes Schneider was the ski star in all three films and all three films were produced by Arnold Fanck. The sound film technology and the participation of Leni Riefenstahl as “Schibaby” were new at the White Rush in 1931.
Sound document
Toni Birkhofer composed a hit for the film , to which Hannes Reimar wrote the text “ The mountains, they are my home ”. Toni Meindl and Hans Lessmann sang it, accompanied by the Carl Woitschach wind orchestra , on the gramophone record in October 1932.
Web links
- The white noise - new wonders of the snowshoe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The white intoxication - new wonders of the snowshoe at filmportal.de
- Walter Riml at WaRis - Tyrolean Film Archive about the film The White Rush
- Report by Lothar Rübelt : “Ski film on the Arlberg”. In: Die Bühne , year 1931, issue 317/1931, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). , P. 9 and p. 10
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. The white intoxication - new wonders of the snowshoe. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on November 4, 2016 .
- ↑ The white intoxication - new wonders of the snowshoe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Deutsches Filminstitut ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ “Toni Birkhofer” was a pseudonym for the pop composer Rolf Marbot (1906–1974), whose real name was Friedel Albrecht Marcuse and was born in Breslau; see. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. US Government Printing Office, 1980, p. 63
- ↑ “Hannes Reimar” was a pseudonym for the hit poet Bert Reisfeld (1906–1991), cf. Sophie Fetthauer at LexM Uni Hamburg (2006, updated on Sept. 8, 2014)
