Love dance (1927)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Love dance |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 97 minutes |
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| Director |
Rudolf Walther-Fein Rudolf Dworsky (artistic director) |
| script | Siegfried Philippi |
| production | Rudolf Dworsky |
| music | Felix Bartsch |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
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Liebesreigen is a German silent film drama from 1927 by Rudolf Walther-Fein with Wilhelm Dieterle , Claire Rommer , Marcella Albani and Charlotte Ander in the leading roles. The story is based on the novel Fighters (1927) by Ernst Klein .
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President Hessenberg's wife Olga dies unexpectedly of heart failure in a secret love nest in the arms of her lover, the actor Paul Neurath. He is virtually paralyzed by this shock and in a panic calls his best friend, the engineer Robert Baumeister, to ask what he should do now. Baumeister worked for many years in the construction of railways in Persia and Afghanistan and recently returned to Berlin to talk to the industrial president Hessenberg about the modalities of an important construction project on behalf of the Soviet government.
Robert cannot do anything in Germany with modernity and the “immorality” that adheres to it, as he feels it. The world in turbulent and bubbling Berlin has become alien to the engineer, who last lived in the desolate seclusion of the Third World, and has actually become repugnant to him. Lipstick, jazz bands and Charleston also frighten Baumeister off the "hideous" daughter of his interlocutor, Lucie Hessenberg. This aversion is based on mutuality, which Lucie in turn perceives the returnees from Berlin from afar as a barbarian and a hillbilly.
When Neurath rings the doorbell at Baumeister's to give him the terrible news of the death of his lover, Olga Hessenberg, Melanie Neurath, Paul's wife, is with him at that very moment. Robert complains of her suffering: Her husband is often present at Frau Hessenberg's, allegedly because he was discussing the establishment of a film production company, the “Neurath Filmgesellschaft”, with her. But Melanie doesn't believe a word of her husband, and that's why she told him that if he went to this lady again now, she would leave him and the house. And so Melanie has now arrived at Paul's best friend Robert, whom she has loved for a long time. She doesn't value the jubilation and hustle and bustle in Berlin and would immediately follow the engineer to the desert of Persia or Afghanistan. Melanie and Robert decide to rush to the scene of the accident, in Paul's love nest with the dead Olga Hessenberg, to see what needs to be done.
On the spot, the situation begins to get absurd. General anxiety spreads: Paul has to explain to his wife Melanie, Robert, in turn, why he came with Melanie. Then Lucie Hessenberg shows up in the room with her stepmother's corpse. Lucie promptly believes that the "hideous barbarian" Robert, with whom she is gradually falling in love, was the dead man's lover. Robert Baumeister soon has to revise his view of the new times, as the spoiled Lucie shows that you can be a smart, enterprising and smart woman with lipstick and other insignia of the “new times”. And so the eponymous love dance is gradually picking up speed. While Robert sees Lucie in a completely new light and a new pairing is emerging, everyone agrees on at least one thing: to spare President Hessenberg, who has now become a widower, and to give him his very own “truth” about the death of his wife Olga .
Production notes
Liebesreigen was made in Staaken in March and April 1927 and was censored on July 18, 1927. The film was 2,450 meters long, divided into seven acts. The premiere took place the second day later, on October 4, 1927 in Berlin's Primus-Palast .
Jacques Rotmil created the film structures, Walter Tost took over the production management .
criticism
The Neue Freue Presse stated that the film "gives the main actors the opportunity to develop great mimic art" and sometimes conveys "sophisticated social scenes, sometimes sultry images, sometimes domestic idylls full of children".
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Liebesreigen". In: Neue Freie Presse , January 15, 1928, p. 17 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- Love dance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love dance at filmportal.de