The island of the blessed

Movie
Original title	The island of the blessed
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1913
Rod
Director	Max Reinhardt
script	Arthur Kahane
production	Paul Davidson for Projektions-AG Union
camera	Friedrich Weinmann
occupation
Wilhelm Diegelmann : good-natured father Willy Prager : violent father Gertrud Hackelberg : cheerful girl, daughter of the good-natured father Lore Wagner : shy girl, daughter of the violent father Werner Lotz: cheeky youth Ernst Hofmann : dreamy youth Friedrich Kühne : grouchy bachelor Ernst Matray : absent-minded bachelor Mary Dietrich : Galathea, mistress of the floods Erika de Planque : Cupid Greta Schröder : Psyche Leopoldine Konstantin : Circe, nymph Ernst Matray : Faun Wilhelm Diegelmann : a sea god Willy Prager : Triton, another sea god Friedrich Kühne : water devil

The Isle of the Blessed is a German feature film by Max Reinhardt from 1913.

action

Two young girls are looking for young men and quickly find success. This displeases their fathers because they had already chosen marriage candidates for their daughters themselves. According to her, two of her Skat brothers, both still bachelors, would be the suitable games. The girls flee with a rowboat to an island with gods, nymphs, fauns and water devils. They are followed by the young men and soon also by the fathers with the bachelors. The gods, and especially Cupid, play all kinds of games and tease people and bring the young couples together. The fathers are turned into pigs by Circe and at the end of a triumphal procession they leave the island again.

background

The Isle of the Blessed was Max Reinhardt's second and last silent film - the previously shot A Venetian Night was not released to the cinema until the following year due to censorship problems. The shooting took place in the Tuscan seaside resort of Marina di Massa near Carrara and on the Gulf of La Spezia .

The film was based on an original screenplay by Arthur Kahane , who had previously worked as a writer with Reinhardt and the Deutsches Theater . Reinhardt called on the painter Paul von Schlippenbach as a consultant for the composition of the picture. The style of the film created by this is based on neoclassicism and neo-romanticism. The camera work is static and does not even come close to exhausting the possibilities of film work that were already discovered in his time. The film, shot for the Projektions-AG Union (PAGU) company, had a length of 1888 meters and premiered on October 3, 1913 at the opening of the “UT am Kurfürstendamm” cinema in Berlin. The event was advertised as a "Reinhardt premiere".

The film contains scenes with bar-breasted women.

literature

• Michael Hanisch The island of the blessed . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 22 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5 .

Web links

• The island of the blessed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The island of the blessed in the online film database
• The island of the blessed at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Hanisch in German Feature Films from the Beginnings to 1933 , p. 22 f.