The Marked (1922)

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Movie
Original title The drawn
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1922
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
script Carl Theodor Dreyer
production Otto Schmidt
camera Friedrich Weinmann
occupation

The Drawn is a German feature film by Carl Theodor Dreyer from 1922. It was based on the 1912 novel Elsker hverandre by Aage Madelung .

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The story takes place around 1900 in a small Russian town on the Dnieper , at a time of political unrest in Russia. The Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe received an education at a Christian-Russian high school. She was expelled from him when she was denounced by her former child friend and good-for-nothing, Fedja Suchowerski, the son of a Russian businessman. The whole place is talking about her alleged affair with the future student Sascha. Her family's attempt to quickly marry off Hanne-Liebe fails. She goes to see her brother Yakov in St. Petersburg , who works as a lawyer there and is married to an aristocrat. In order to be able to exercise the profession, he converted to the Christian Orthodox faith. However, his wife refuses to accept his sister. He therefore places her in the household of the scholar Florow.

There Hanne-Liebe meets the student Sascha again, who - recruited by a certain Rylowitsch - socializes in oppositional-revolutionary student circles. Accidentally exposed Yakov Rylowitsch at a meeting of intellectual opposition in the house Florows as agents of the secret police . He can no longer prevent Sascha's arrest and Hanna's deportation to her hometown. Rylowitsch walks around the country in monastic costume and spreads anti-Jewish agitation that reaches the population.

Over time, the revolutionary movement also strengthened and forced the release of political prisoners, including Sascha. Jakow goes to his terminally ill mother in the small town and there encounters a pogrom mood against the Jewish population, fueled by Suchowersky and Rylowitsch. Fedja, influenced by Rylowitschs, instigates the pogrom against “the infidels”. After a procession in honor of the Tsar, the population storms the Jewish quarter. Yakov is shot dead while storming the Rylowitsch ghetto. Meanwhile, Fedja tries to make Hanne-Liebe compliant. Sascha saves her and shoots Fedya. Both of them flee the area together with other Jews.

Remarks

The Drawn is a 1921 production of Primus-Film, Berlin. After Die Pfarrerswitwe (1920) it was Dreyer's second film produced abroad. Jens G. Lind was responsible for the buildings erected for the film in Groß Lichterfelde Ost near Berlin ; the costumes are by Leopold Verch , Willi Ernst and Karl Töpfer . In addition to the Russian theater actors Polina Piekowskaja , Vladimir Gaidarow and Richard Boleslawski - the latter two from Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theater - Russian and Jewish extras were also used. The film premiered on February 7, 1922 in Copenhagen and on February 23, 1922 in Berlin's Primuspalast .

Among Dreyer's works The Drawn takes a little noticed place. The original German version has not been preserved. In 1960 a Russian version of the film with the title Pogrom was rediscovered in the Soviet film archive " Gosfilmofond ". Soviet film historians found the portrayal of the Russian atmosphere in the small town's Jewish and upper-class households, the embedding in the historical situation of anti-Semitism of Nikolai II's time and the course of the pogrom as particularly successful . This Russian version in Moscow was also a copy; the original was later found in the Cinémathèque de Toulouse.

literature

  • Klaus Lippert: The marked ones. In: Günther Dahlke, Günter Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginning to 1933. A film guide. 2nd Edition. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89487-009-5 , p. 64 f.
  • Siegbert S. Prawer: Between Two Worlds. The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1919–1933 (= Film Europa. Vol. 3). Berghahn Books, New York NY et al. 2005, ISBN 1-84545-074-4 , p. 29 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lippert: The drawn. In: Dahlke, Karl (Hrsg.): Deutsche Spielfilme von der Beginn bis 1933. 1993, p. 65.
  2. Die Gezeichen ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the program of the Berlinale 2008 (PDF file; 84 kB).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / osiris22.pi-consult.de