The deadly dreams

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Movie
Original title The deadly dreams
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1950
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Paul Martin
script Gustav Kampendonk
production Fritz Kirchhoff ,
for Pontus Film
music Hans-Otto Borgmann
camera Fritz Arno Wagner
cut Rosemarie Weinert
occupation

The Deadly Dreams is a feature film by Paul Martin from 1950. It mixes motifs from different stories by the writer ETA Hoffmann .

action

Albert Winter, a philology student, spends his semester break in Bamberg to study art history. He lives on Schillerplatz, sublet from second-hand dealer Alexis Wilbrand, who promptly rented him the room in which the poet E. T. A. Hoffmann once lived. In Wilbrands' shop Albert discovers a female statue barely the size of a hand, which Wilbrand dismisses as junk and which Albert takes to his room. The statue shows astonishing similarities with the daughter of the second-hand dealer, Angelika.

Strange things happen in the house at midnight. The characters on a stage model come to life and seemingly begin to perform Fouqué's Undine . The ink drawing of a man with a cylinder comes to life and introduces himself to Albert personally as E. T. A. Hoffmann. While Albert falls into a twilight sleep, Hoffmann tells him the "Deadly Dreams", stories that sometimes go back centuries and whose plot always focuses on Albert in various roles. This mixes fiction and true experiences of Albert, such as the encounters with Alexis Wilbrand and a mysterious girl he had seen the day before in Bamberg Cathedral .

production

The Fatal Dreams was "the first Hoffmann adaptation after the Second World War ", which takes up, among other things, doppelganger motifs from works such as The Gambler and The Fraulein von Scuderi . The shooting took place in the Wiesbaden studio and in Bamberg (cathedral, old court, rose garden, Böttingerhaus).

The German first performance took place on January 10, 1951 in the "crank" in Berlin . The film was shown in competition at the 1951 Film Festival in Cannes . The film was later changed in parts and with "Happy End" under the title Liebestraum .

criticism

The lexicon of international films saw Die tödlichen Träume as an “attempt to cultivate German post-war production”. The film had “excellent… actors… in multiple roles” and “congenial… camerawork”, but was “developed in a rather cumbersome manner by the script and the direction.” “The film seems to be meant to be serious and demanding, but it works in spite of the Prominence in double and triple roles is completely wrong, ”said the Berliner Zeitung .

Awards

In 1950, actor Rudolf Forster was awarded the bronze E. T. A. Hoffmann plaque by the Society of Friends of E. T. A. Hoffmann for his portrayal of the poet in The Deadly Dreams . The state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the film the title "artistically high".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Ringel: E. T. A. Hoffmanns Works in Film . In: E. T. A. Hoffmann yearbook . No. 3, issue 41, 1995, p. 88.
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 225
  3. ↑ See festival-cannes.com
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 8. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 3830.
  5. ^ Forster's stories . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 14, 1951, p. 3.
  6. ↑ See effective word. German language work in teaching and life . Vol. 1-2, 1951, p. 319.