Katyusha Maslova

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Movie
Original title Katyusha Maslova
Resurrection
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1923
length 106 minutes
Rod
Director Friedrich Zelnik
script Fanny Carlsen
Ofrassimoff
production Friedrich Zelnik
camera Otto Tober
occupation

and Lydia Potechina , Paul Graetz , Olga Engl , Maria Forescu , Karl Falkenberg , Maria Peterson , Lili Alexandra , Albert Patry

Katjuscha Maslowa is a German silent film from 1923 by Friedrich Zelnik with Lya Mara in the title role. Rudolf Forster can be seen at her side as Prince Dimitri Nechludow. The film is based on the novel Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy .

action

Unlike in Tolstoy's novel Resurrection , the fate of Prince Nechludow is not at the center of the action, but that of the main female character Katyusha and her love for the aristocratic, who, also unlike in the literary model, finds a happy ending suitable for film. Nechludow is appointed as a jury member in a lawsuit that hears the poisoning of the disgusting merchant Smjelkoff. The prostitute Katyusha is said to have given him arsenic, believing it was a sleeping pill, in order to then rob the rich merchant. Nechludow recognizes the accused woman as the former maid of his two aunts and is represented as a jury member. As a young officer, he had once exploited Katyusha's infatuation and seduced her. When he returned to his regiment, he left money for Katyusha and never saw her again.

Back to the trial: Nechludov is back in town when Katyusha is found guilty and sentenced to twelve years of forced labor in Siberia. The verdict is more than dubious, and again the prince's behavior - this time his deliberate absence as a jury member - appears complicit in the terrible fate of this presumably innocent woman. Nechludov's conscience can no longer be suppressed: He visits Katyusha in prison and reveals himself to her. He wants to revise your case. But Katyusha is no longer the little girl she used to be, the past few years have been very hard on her. The prince then sets heaven and hell in motion to get Katyusha free, including intervention with the area governor and a petition for mercy from the tsar. After further trials and tribulations, Katyusha and her prince finally find each other and both can enjoy their life together in freedom.

Production notes

Katjuscha Maslowa , also shown under the title Resurrection , was created in spring 1923, passed the censorship on May 18, 1923 and, depending on the source, was premiered in August or November 1923 in the Berlin Marble House . The film had six acts, spread over 2,420 meters, and was banned from young people.

criticism

Vienna's Neue Freie Presse wrote in 1924: “The Katjuscha of the film is ... not exactly identical to that of the novel; the coarseness that the dirt, through which her fate drags her, leaves behind as traces on her outside and inside and only gradually smooths out again, is missing in the film. (...) The presentation is excellent. Lya Mara, who ... is registered as a representative of the fine comedy film, shows a dramatic creative ability (...) For the awakening of the first innocent tendency in the still childish girl, the desire to suppress love, the agonizing pain of being abandoned, she also finds the concise and moving Expression as for the deep tiredness and disgust in the scenes with the merchant Smjelkow ... "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Katyusha Maslova". In:  Neue Freie Presse , February 12, 1924, p. 16 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp

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