Hotel Potemkin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hotel Potemkin |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1924 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Neufeld |
| script |
Ernst Vajda Jacques Bachrach |
| production | Vita-Film (Vienna) |
| camera |
Eduard Hoesch Günther Krampf |
| occupation | |
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Hotel Potemkin is an Austrian silent film fun play from 1924 by Max Neufeld .
action
Lord Henry Berry is a young nobleman who really wants nothing but boredom to death. One day he meets a weird stranger, a certain Mr. Witt, who makes a pact with him according to which the stranger promises to give the weary man the most original and ingenious way of death within three weeks before he turns 30 could imagine.
Lord Henry would not be averse to this idea if he did not get to know the beautiful and dashing Mabel in the days that followed, who brought him joy in life again and awakened love in him. In the end it turns out that Mr. Witt is none other than Lord Henry's good neighbor and at the same time Mabel's father.
Production notes
Hotel Potemkin was filmed in Vienna in the second half of 1923. The film passed the Austrian film censorship on January 29, 1924 and was premiered two weeks earlier, on January 15, 1924 as part of a press screening. The mass start was on March 21, 1924. The six-act film had a length of about 2200 meters and was banned from young people.
Eugen Neufeld , who embodies a mysterious stranger, was the older brother of director Max Neufeld. Alexander Ferenczy and Stefan Wessely created the film structures. EW Emo was an assistant director.
In Germany, the strip was awarded under the title The Last Hour .
criticism
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse wrote: “'Hotel Potemkin' is really a delightful, fine comedy, which one can boast as an original virtue that it cleverly saves the funny mood for the last act, in which this strange story has its amusing, amiable solution thinks (...) Max Neufeld's direction is absolutely flawless. There is nothing to be found about exaggeration or tastelessness. (...) The presentation is excellent throughout. "
In Paimann's film lists you can read: “The framework is exciting and has a brisk pace, while the inserted scenes are a bit broad. The presentation is consistently good, Jean Angelo at the top. The design and photography also deserve special mention ”.
Web links
- Hotel Potemkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hotel Potemkin at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Hotel Potemkin". In: Neue Freie Presse , February 26, 1924, p. 16 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Hotel Potemkin in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 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.
