the winner
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | the winner |
| Original title | After the Verdict |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 3,036 meters, 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henrik Galeen |
| script | Alma Reville |
| production | IW Schlesinger for Chechowa Film Ltd. / GmbH. |
| music |
Leslie Elliott (theme song) Werner Schmidt-Boelcke (world premiere music) |
| camera | Theodor Sparkuhl |
| occupation | |
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The winner is the title of the German version of a silent film drama that Henrik Galeen wrote in the studios of British International Pictures (BIP) in Elstree, England in 1928 under the original title After the verdict with Olga Chekhova and Warwick Ward in the leading roles for the production company Chekhova Film Ltd . London / Chechowa Film GmbH. Berlin realized.
Alma Reville wrote the script ; The template was a novel of the same title by Robert Smythe Hichens from 1924, which was published in Germany by Ullstein Verlag as "Vivian and her husband".
After the Verdict was photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl and was distributed by the British Independent Film Distributors . In the United Kingdom, the film was released in January 1929.
The title song "Long Ago" was written by the composer Leslie Elliott.
content
Clive Baratrie, having returned from the colonies, becomes engaged to his childhood friend Vivian Denys. On the same day Mrs. Sabine arrives, who has followed him. She had nursed him with touching care after a malaria attack in the tropics. When Clive found out she was married, he had decided to embark. On the evening of the engagement day, Clive sees Mrs. Sabine for a final discussion, in the course of which he shoots her. Clive is arrested on suspicion of murder. The dramatic events weigh heavily on Vivian. On the day of the trial, she meets Mr. Sabine, the husband who wants revenge on Clive. He is in possession of a suicide note from his wife, in which she informs him that she is leaving her life voluntarily. Vivian desperately tries to get the man to bring evidence of Clive's innocence to court. Finally she succeeds.
In Germany, the film premiered on February 7, 1929 in the Berlin “ Capitol ”. Curt Wesse had arranged the German version, the music for the premiere was by Werner Schmidt-Boelcke . The film was discussed by Georg F. Salmony in "BZ am Mittag" No. 38 on February 8, 1929 and by Michael Kurd in "Welt am Abend".
The film must be considered lost. It was Galeen's penultimate directorial work.
Sound document
Columbia 5449 (A 9101) Long Ago. Theme Song from “After The Verdict” (Leslie Elliot). Quentin MacLean at the Regal Cinema, London (Christie Unit Organ)
literature
- Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder (Ed.): The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, Oxford / New York 2009.
- Gero Gandert: The film of the Weimar Republic. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-11-085261-6 .
- Illustrated film courier. No. 1072 to The Winner .
- Ehsan Khoshbakht: wild girl poster. In: Il Cinema Ritrovato. 2, 2012, published on 28 June 2012.
- Rachael Low: History of the British Film, 1918–1929. Allen & Unwin, London 1971, p. 327.
- Curt Wesse: great power film. The creature of art and film. 1st edition. German Book Association, Berlin 1928. (Almost philosophical examination of the possibilities and stylistic devices of the cinema)
Web links
- The winner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The winner in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IMDb [1]
- ↑ cf. Ehsan Khoshbakht: “But what if you see both shots and many more similar narrative devices in Henrik Galeen's After the Verdict (1929)? Shocking, but not if we consider that the scriptwriter of the film is Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife and collaborator. Has the master of suspense consulted his wife at the dinner table or was it Hitch who taught Alma how to combine suspense and ambiguity in the early years? The story of After the Verdict is quite predictable, but the editing that shows the influences from avant-garde elevates the film. The long dissolves between the close up of the actors and written texts (many letters exchanged in the film) seem like an early practice of Godard's Histoire (s) du cinéma . "
- ↑ Book cover reproduced with Archived Copy ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 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.
- ↑ after: Filmwoche Berlin, No. 8 of February 20, 1929, quoted in in Gandert p. 598.
- ↑ Screenwriter and film writer, cf. film portal [2] ; wrote the book "Grossmacht Film", published in January 1928 in Berlin.
- ↑ Reviews reproduced in Gandert pp. 599–600.
- ↑ after his return to Germany he shot the spy film Salon Dora Green in 1933 , in Germany: “Salon Dora Green” [3] with Mady Christians ; Film poster shown at [4] , title page "Illustrierter Film-Kurier No. 594" shown at Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 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.
- ↑ Europe's largest cinema organ stood in this British cinema at that time, cf. cinematreasures.org [5] : "The Regal Cinema was equipped with a Hill, Norman & Beard designed Christie 4 Manual / 36 Rank theater pipe organ, the largest in Europe which was opened by Quentin Maclean." ; Audio samples with MacLean on this organ at [6] . Title page of a program booklet of the cinema from February 18, 1929 shown at [7] ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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