Maria Stuart (1927)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Maria Stuart |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | approx. 110 (Austrian version) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Fehér |
| script |
Anton Kuh Friedrich Fehér |
| production | National Film AG, Berlin |
| music | Pasquale Perris |
| camera | Leopold Kutzleb |
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Maria Stuart is a two-part, German historical silent film from 1927 by Friedrich Fehér with Magda Sonja in the title role.
action
The film primarily looks at the human side of the tragic life of the Scottish Queen. As a Catholic striving for internal and internal religious balance, she wants to put the Protestant classes at rest with a treaty and for this reason she marries her lover, a Protestant. But soon she is so disgusted by her husband that she finally has him murdered.
A secret treaty that suddenly appears and that she signed as a child, which contradicts the first treaty, means that Maria Stuart has to flee from her homeland to England, where she is placed in the care of Queen Elizabeth I. When a page perpetrated an attack on the English monarch, Maria Stuart is suspected to be behind this attack, who is then arrested and sentenced to death.
Production notes
"Maria Stuart" was filmed in Staaken from August to November 1927 . The first part of the film was censored on December 7, 1927, the second part on December 9, 1927. Both parts were premiered immediately afterwards in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . In Austria, the film began in 1928 under the title "The Queen of Scotland".
The artistic director was the famous theater director Leopold Jessner . The buildings were designed by Robert A. Dietrich , Fritz Brunn was the production manager.
Reviews
“Unfortunately, the story of Maria Stuart could only be read from countless titles on the screen, because from Magda Sonja, who played the Queen of Scotland, one only got the impression that Maria Stuart must have been a very beautiful fashion queen from West Berlin . In other words, a complete wrong choice and therefore a deserved failure. "
In the issue of January 14, 1928, the Österreichische Film-Zeitung reads: “In this film, scenes and moments of great artistic power and originality undoubtedly shine through. (…) Magda Sonja as Maria Stuart is the only woman who participates. She bears all the more responsibility. She is a mature artist with great expressiveness. She mitigates the task of being a siren with lighter, tasteful Parisian coquetry. It is regretted that Kortner's role is no bigger and nothing more can be said than that a few meters with him bring strongest impressions. (...) Technically, the film is excellent. "
Web links
- Mary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maria Stuart - 1st part atfilmportal.de
- Maria Stuart - Part 2 at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Maria Stuart". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , 14 January 1928, p. 19 (online at ANNO ).