The Bartered Bride (1932)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | the sold bride |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Ophüls |
| script |
Curt Alexander Max Ophüls Karel Sabina (Libretto) |
| production | Reichsliga film (production manager: Karl Ritter ) |
| music |
Theo Mackeben Bedřich Smetana (opera) |
| camera |
Reimar Kuntze Franz Koch |
| cut | Paul May (as Paul Ostermayr) |
| occupation | |
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The Bartered Bride is a film adaptation of the comic opera The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana, made by Max Ophüls in 1932 . This production was the first film opera.
action
1859 at a parish fair in Bohemia. The matchmaker Kezal wants to couple the mayor's daughter Marie to Wenzel, the son of the rich Micha. Marie falls in love with the stagecoach, Hans, and hides with him in the hustle and bustle of the parish festival.
Meanwhile the traveling circus Brummer has arrived, and Wenzel has his eye on the artist Esmeralda, the ringmaster Brummer's foster daughter. Marie and Wenzel's parents are dissatisfied with this development. Marie is locked in her room and the mayor does not give the circus permission to perform.
Kezal offers Hans 300 guilders if he renounces Marie, and when he accepts the money, word gets around that he has sold his bride. The humiliated Marie is now ready to marry Wenzel. But Hans only accepted the money because the circus needs it to be allowed to play. When a circus bear breaks out and Hans Marie rescues him, everything comes back to normal. The parents give their consent, Wenzel gets Esmeralda, and even Kezal gets his expenses reimbursed twice.
background
The film was shot from May 16, 1932 to June 1932 in the vicinity of Munich and in the Emelka studios in Munich-Geiselgasteig. In order to create the most realistic parish fair atmosphere possible, real fairground people were hired to come to Geiselgasteig with their families. Karl Valentin can be seen in his first sound film, supported by Liesl Karlstadt, and Beppo Brem had his first ever film appearance in a silent role.
The film was launched on August 18, 1932 in Munich and on September 2, 1932 in Berlin with the advertisement "First sound opera film - world premiere". The audience received the film with great applause. The fast-paced work, interspersed with many outdoor recordings and strongly musically influenced, meant the breakthrough as a director for Max Ophüls, who was hardly known until then.
Reviews
“The parodic and lively production brought together an ensemble consisting of opera stars and folk actors. The comedy owes its liveliness and comedy to the collision of these different worlds. "
"Ophüls staged lively, relaxed, parodic ... The film set aesthetic standards for a new genre, the opera film."
“With a slight shift in accent, adapted version of Smetana's comic opera of the same name, which lives primarily from the virtuoso use of the camera, the naturalness of the scenery, the ironic spice and the comedic performances of Karl Valentin. The successful implementation of the music in filmic image compositions is also very attractive. "
literature
- Eberhard Berger The Bartered Bride . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 304 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- The Bartered Bride at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The sold bride at Filmportal.de
- Movie scenes
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bartered Bride. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 23, 2017 .