Youth (1922)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | youth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1922 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fred Sauer |
| script | Fred Sauer, based on Max Halbe |
| production | Hermes-Film GmbH Berlin |
| camera | Heinrich Gärtner |
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Jugend is the silent film adaptation of the naturalistic “love drama in three acts” by Max Halbe , which was first performed in 1893 and which Fred Sauer realized in 1922 based on his own script with first-hand staff such as Grete Reinwald , Theodor Loos and Fritz Schulz for Hermes-Film in Berlin. Fritz Rasp had his first major success in the role of Amandus in the film.
action
Born out of wedlock, Anne, called Annchen, grew up in the parsonage of her uncle, Pastor Hoppe, after the early death of her mother. Annchen's mentally handicapped half-brother Amandus and the chaplain Gregor von Schigorski, a religious zealot who wants to get Annchen to go to the monastery to atone for her mother's guilt, also live here.
When Hans Hartwig, Annchen's cousin and future student, visits the farm on the way to Heidelberg, Hans and Annchen fall in love. Pastor Hoppe tolerated this love, but Amandus and Schigorski observed it with jealousy, envy and resentment.
Hans and Annchen spend the night together. But Amandus, who had secretly sneaked after Annchen that night, observed both of them. Immediately afterwards he goes to Schigorski to tell him about it. He in turn tells the pastor about it. He decides that Hans should leave immediately and only return after completing his studies. When Hans and Annchen say goodbye to each other, Amandus appears to shoot Hans. Annchen, however, throws herself in between and is fatally hit.
background
Fritz Lederer created the buildings for the film . Heinrich Gärtner took care of the photography . Manager was Paul Goergen . The production of the Berlin Hermes-Film GmbH was submitted to the Reichsfilmzensur on July 17, 1922 and was approved under the number B06176. It premiered on October 6, 1922 in Berlin. The film was also shown in Denmark - here as Ungdom - and in Hungary, where it premiered on November 18, 1922 under the title Ifjuság .
reception
In 1922, “Jugend” was received extremely favorably by both audiences and critics.
Max Prels reviewed the film in Cinematograph No. 813 in 1922 :
“The conflict means being young, being young in itself is a conflict. Fred Sauer sensed this conflict very carefully from the stage play and based his manuscript on this tragedy of being young. As a director, he had to deepen this motif and trace it. He could only do it by overly emphasizing the fact of being young, had to let the melody of youth sound out in a hundred variations, had to penetrate the garden of seventeen, which seemed enchanted to all people beyond puberty. "
In 1938, Veit Harlan made a sound film remake of the drama with Kristina Söderbaum , Werner Hinz and Eugen Klöpfer in the leading roles. This time Thea von Harbou had edited half the play for the film.
Web links
- Youth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Youth at filmportal.de
Illustrations:
- Cinema poster “Youth. 5 files by Max Halbe. " Design: Fritz Beyer.
- Photo by Grete Reinwald.
- Artist postcard from Fritz Rasp.
literature
- Alfred Adolph Estermann : The film adaptation of literary works. (= Treatises on art, music and literary studies. Volume 33). Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1965, DNB 451176340 , p. 52.
- Walther Freisburger: Theater in Film: an investigation into the main features and changes in the relationship between theater and film. (= The Schaubühne: Sources and Research on Theater History. Volume 13). Verlag Lechte, Emsdetten 1936, DNB 579871339 , p. 25.
- Rolf Giesen, Manfred Hobsch: Hitler Youth Quex, Jud Süss and Kolberg. The propaganda films of the Third Reich. Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2005, ISBN 3-89602-471-X .
- Alan Goble: The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3 , p. 202 and 821.
- Ludwig Greve (Ed.): If I had the cinema! The writers and the silent film: An exhibition of the German Literature Archive in the Schiller National Museum Marbach aN (= catalog special exhibitions of the Schiller National Museum. Volume 27). Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1976, DNB 770511783 .
- Paul Lesch, Center national de l'audiovisuel (Luxembourg): In the name of public order and morality: cinema control and film censorship in Luxembourg 1895–2005. Center national de l'audiovisuel, 2005, ISBN 2-919873-37-7 , p. 79.
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was in this role that Rasp made his stage debut at the Munich Schauspielhaus in 1909 . See Andreas Zemke, an actor in conversation. 1976: Interview with Fritz Rasp. Broadcast by Deutsche Welle on November 21, 2012, and Focus on Film , issues 1–12, publisher: Tantivy Press, 1970, p. 48: “After his portrait of the half-witted Amandus in Fred Sauer's film version of Max Halbe's play "Jugend" which was received with great enthusiasm by critics and public alike in 1922, Rasp became the acknowledged specialist in villains, rascals and shady personalities. "
- ↑ cf. Birett, sources on film history, "B06176 Jugend 1922."
- ↑ cf. release info
- ↑ cf. Focus on Film 1970, p. 48: "... was received with great enthusiasm by critics and public alike in 1922 ..." .
- ↑ cit. at Greve p. 167
- ↑ Giesen-Hobsch p. 185, filmportal and IMDb