The love of Jeanne Ney

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Movie
Original title The love of Jeanne Ney
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 113 minutes
Rod
Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst
script Rudolf Leonhard ,
Ladislaus Vajda
production Ufa
music Hans May
camera Fritz Arno Wagner ,
Walter Robert Lach
occupation

The love of Jeanne Ney is a German feature film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst from 1927. It was based on the novel of the same name by Ilja Ehrenburg .

action

The French foreign correspondent Alfred Ney has lived in the Crimea with his daughter Jeanne for six years . It is the final phase of the Russian Civil War . He is so tired of the country that he wants to go back to Paris with Jeanne. From the White Guard spy Chalybieff he gets a list of the names of Bolshevik agents that he buys from him. The Bolsheviks hear about it, and two of them want to take the list off Ney. There is an exchange of fire and Alfred Ney is shot. The rushing Jeanne Ney is shocked, one of the Bolsheviks is Andrei, with whom she fell in love. Andrej's friend Zacharkiewicz helps her to flee to Paris on a ship after the Red Army invades the town.

She finds accommodation in the detective agency of her uncle Raymond Ney as a typist, but only after Raymond Ney's blind daughter Gabriele has urged him to do so. Shortly afterwards, Chalybieff appears at the detective agency. When he sees that Gabriele's father is not incapable, he approaches the blind woman and finally brings her a marriage proposal. Meanwhile Andrej has also arrived in Paris, who is supposed to support the sailors in Toulon with money in revolutionary actions. He contacts Jeanne. At the engagement party with Gabriele, Chalybieff tries to kiss Jeanne, while Gabriele, unsuspectingly, caresses his hand. Later in a bar, drunk, he reveals to the bar girl Margot his plan to get rid of Gabriele after the wedding; he would then flee with Margot and the money. Margot informs Jeanne and Raymond Ney throws the legacy sneak out.

The detective Gaston is tasked with investigating the whereabouts of a diamond that was kept by a wealthy American at a jeweler and was lost there and a reward of 50,000 dollars is offered for finding it. He discovers that the jeweler's parrot has eaten the diamond and, to the horror of the jeweler's wife, makes short work of the animal. Raymond Ney arranges the handover of the diamond for the evening by telephone and in his anticipation is already busy counting the money he has imagined. When he opens the door for the supposed money carrier, he is immediately strangled by two hands. It was Chalybieff who steals the diamond and leaves a jacket with a picture and a letter from Andrei at the scene to cast suspicion on him. Chalybieff goes to his hotel with a whore he has picked up on the street and runs into Jeanne and Andrej, who have spent a night there together. The plan succeeds; Andrej is arrested on the train the next day with a lot of money in his pocket.

Jeanne goes to Chalybieff and implores him to confirm Andrej's alibi. During the discussion the diamond falls out of his pocket and Jeanne sees her uncle's murderer in front of her. After a short escape, he is arrested and Andrei is released. Jeanne and Andrej finally kneel together in front of the altar of a church.

History of origin

The shooting took place from May to August 1927. The outdoor scenes in Paris were filmed on the original location, the others were shot in Ufa's Babelsberg studio. The buildings were designed by Otto Hunte and Victor Trivas . The author Ehrenburg was temporarily present during the shooting and was impressed by the effort; he describes u. a. what effort it was to film a living bug in Chalybieff's hotel room in close-up. On the other hand, he felt dubious when he observed the extras that the White Guard officers had to play - apparently for the most part they really were former White Guards who wore their uniforms for 15 marks a day.

Jeanne Ney's love premiered on December 6, 1927 in the Berlin UT on Kurfürstendamm. The film deviates from its literary model in some places. In particular, it has a happy ending , but in the novel Andrei is convicted and executed. In the essay “An encounter of the author with his characters”, the novelist reported in detail as early as 1927 on the processing of his original: “First I saw the Ufa house ... In one of the two or three hundred rooms, the usefulness of the novel became this Russian author discussed. Everything was taken into account here: girl's tears and the expense of props, the break in relations between England and the Soviet Union, and the Argentinians' fondness for legal errors. 'Jeanne' was weighed, measured and processed. They were given to an experienced bespectacled professional who knew the laws of the lens and the tastes of the public on all five continents. It was trimmed, soaked, dried, cut into pieces. They made a scenario out of it. ”In an open letter to the Frankfurter Zeitung that appeared on the front page on February 29, 1928, Ehrenburg protested against the film's happy ending. Among other things, he made fun of moralizing tendencies; In the hour hotel where Andrej and Jeanne spend their night together, the morally questionable bed had been removed. In the film version, the lovers can be predicted an idyllic bourgeois future in the apartment, with a vacuum cleaner, decaffeinated coffee and a weekly visit to the cinema. Ehrenburg commented on the change in the ending with a sarcastic remark reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht : “In the book, the innocent hero is executed. This food is too heavy for the dragon. In the film they get each other: the innocent hero and the beautiful heroine. Life is badly arranged in the book. So you have to change it. Life is well arranged in the film. Consequently, one should go to sleep. As you can see, it is not that difficult to understand the laws of the lens. "

Reviews

“In extreme camera positions you can feel the influence of the Russian films . In his suggestive visual language, which extensively uses gloom, windows, mirrors, puddles of water, he [Pabst] develops elements of Expressionism. In his stance, the film remains an outsider in the Ufa program, in his staging style Pabst continues the best traditions of his full, drastic reality, although he cannot deny his penchant for melodrama. "

- Christiane Mückenberger

“Sentimental but superbly staged war story about the time after the Russian Revolution: the daughter of a French journalist falls in love with a Red Army officer in Odessa and meets him again later in Paris, where she can save him from the guillotine. Classic UFA silent film that mixes elements of the Soviet revolutionary cinema with German expressionism. The realistic staging is exaggerated by melodramatic effects. "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • Ilja Ehrenburg : The love of Jeanne Ney. Novel (original title: Ljubov 'Žanny Nej ). German by Waldemar Jollos . Buchverlag Der Morgen , Berlin 1985, 368 pp.
  • Christiane Mückenberger The love of Jeanne Ney . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, pp. 160 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg: An encounter between the author and his characters. First appeared in the volume of essays White Coal or Werther's Tears , here quoted after: About literature. Essays, speeches, essays, thaws . Volk und Welt, Berlin 1986, pp. 59f, pp. 62–64.
  2. ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg: An encounter between the author and his characters. First appeared in the volume of essays White Coal or Werther's Tears , here quoted after: About literature. Essays, speeches, essays, thaws . Volk und Welt, Berlin 1986, pp. 55–56.
  3. ↑ Joshua Rubenstein: Tangled Loyalities. The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg , University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London, 1999, p. 409.
  4. ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg: An encounter between the author and his characters. First appeared in the volume of essays White Coal or Werther's Tears , here quoted after: About literature. Essays, speeches, essays, thaws . Volk und Welt, Berlin 1986, p. 66.
  5. ^ Christiane Mückenberger in German Feature Films from the Beginnings to 1933 , Henschel Verlag Berlin 1993, p. 161 f.
  6. ↑ The love of Jeanne Ney. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 18, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used