Scenery magic

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Movie
Original title Scenery magic
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1915
Rod
Director Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
script Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
production Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
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Kulissenzauber is a German silent film drama from 1915 with Alexander Moissi in the leading role.

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The film is about the life, love and suffering of a stage person who has committed himself through and through to being an artist. This is the theater director Hans Werner, to whom all his thoughts and actions apply to the boards that mean the world. This also affects the relationship of his no less theater-obsessed wife, who is also the mother of a common child, who soon gets involved with another man out of ambition. The overflowing emotions on all sides lead one day to Werner shooting his own wife in a jealous frenzy, but then saving his own child so that it does not get caught in the vortex of love and madness, jealousy and hate. He brings his child to his former lover, who promises bourgeoisie and thus offers a better refuge for the little one than the crazy world of the theater boards. After all, Hans Werner kills himself nervously.

Production notes

Kulissenzauber was created at the turn of the year 1914/15 in the BB-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Steglitz . The film with a prelude and three acts passed the film censorship in February 1915 and was presumably premiered in the same month.

criticism

“The importance of Alex. Moissis is nothing more to add. He is one of the greats on the German stage. He masters the word artfully, the expression, the gesture and his eye speak true inwardness and feeling. This makes him the ideal actor for the film and perhaps one of the greatest in German film. (...) But what he offers in the play “Kulissenzauber” ... is called to bring him into contact with the broadest circles of the cinema audience. (...) His Hans Werner is a being who wears everyday clothes and who, even if banned in his own circles, can be fathomed humanely. (...) The film show offers numerous photographic beauties, which emerge with pleasure in magnificent winter shots. The staging is to be counted among the best. The artist's death is moving and effective, the tension is skillfully increased. With this film, a first-class work has emerged that determines the progress made in the art of photography. "

- Cinematographic review of February 21, 1915. p. 57

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