You don't play with love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | You don't play with love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| script | Willy Haas |
| production |
Hermann Fellner Arnold Pressburger Josef Somló (FPS-Film) for Phoebus-Film |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera |
Guido Seeber Curt Oertel Robert Lach |
| cut |
Mark Sorkin Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| occupation | |
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You don't play with love is a German silent film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst released in 1926 . It is a film adaptation of the play On ne badine pas avec l'amour by Alfred de Musset, written in 1834 . The film is considered lost .
action
The film is set in Viennese society at the time of Emperor Franz Joseph and deals with the chaos of love between three people: The aging Prince Colalto, caught in the conservative-monarchical, falls in love with Calixa. She is brought up more at home, her father works as a property manager for the imperial-royal house. Third in the league is the young Lewis, son of an upstart who has made his fortune as an automobile manufacturer. He presents the modern world with colorful advertising for the group. This also includes the soubrette Amina and her friend Paris, who enjoy life in the hotel, dance the Charleston and thus present modern city life in contrast to the conservative, aristocratic world of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
production
You Don't Play With Love was filmed from August to September 1926. The film had its world premiere on November 10, 1926. There is no known copy of the 3038 meter long film.
Originally Pabst had wanted to make a film about the mutiny of the Imperial Navy in Kiel. Since the Phoebus received secret subsidies from the Ministry of Defense at the time, which were intended to finance patriotic films - which after exposure led to a scandal - Pabst's film project remained unrealized. Instead, he turned for Phoebus Man Doesn't Play With Love .
criticism
"So much delicacy, so much pure, neat order in emotional matters has not been on a canvas for a long time," was the contemporary criticism. The film treats its subject with "noble [m], substantial [m] seriousness".
Other critics called the film “costume harmlessness” and in retrospect called it “an indisputable failure due to the inept casting of Werner Krauss - hardly a romantic type - as the old gentleman opposite Lily Damita, who lacked the necessary innocent, virginal qualities . "
Web links
- Do not play with love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- You don't play with love at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See silentera.com
- ^ Stefan Grossmann: The diary . 7th year, 2nd half of the year, issue 47, November 20, 1926, p. 1771.
- ↑ You don't play with love . In: Ilona Brennicke, Joe Hembus: Classics of the German silent film 1910–1930 . Goldmann, Munich 1983, p. 206
- ↑ Dt .: a definite failure, especially because Werner Krauss, anything but a romantic type, was completely wrongly cast as the older lover, and because his partner Lily Damita did not have the virginal innocent virtues asked for here (Ü. Lt. Brennicke / Hembus, p. 206.) Cf. Lee Atwell: GW Pabst . Twayne Publishers, 1977, p. 43.