Marizza, known as the Smuggler Madonna

Movie
Original title	Marizza, known as the Smuggler Madonna
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1921
length	95 minutes
Rod
Director	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
script	Hans Janowitz Wolfgang Geiger (template)
production	Erwin Rosner
camera	Karl friend
occupation
Tzwetta Tzacheva : Marizza Adele Sandrock : Mrs. Avricolos Harry Frank : Christ, your eldest son Hans Heinrich von Twardowski : Antonino, their second son Leonhard Haskel : Pietro Scarzella Greta Schröder-Matray : Sadja, Scarzella's daughter Maria Forescu : the old Yelina Albrecht von Blum : Mirko Vasics, smuggler Max Nemetz : Grischuk, smuggler Toni Zimmerer : Haslinger, border hunter

Marizza, known as the Smuggler Madonna, is a German film drama directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from 1921.

action

The real job of the beautiful Marizza, who works for a smuggler in a potato field, is to keep the border guards from their work. Since she is tired of this life, she tries to start a new life on the estate of Mrs. Avricolos. There she is chased away after she has started a relationship with Christ. She escapes with Antonio, who is in love with her. After giving birth to Christo's child, she works again for the smuggler. The jealous Antonio starts a fight with a border guard. Marizza, who joins them, kills the border guard. Antonio takes on the deed. Meanwhile, the hut where Marizza left her child goes up in flames. Christo saves both of them at the last second.

background

The script by Hans Janowitz is based on the manuscript "Green Eyes" by Wolfgang Geiger, Heinrich Richter was responsible for the buildings. It was produced by Helios-Film Berlin and was shot in the Jofa studio in Johannisthal in October 1920. On July 16, 1921, the Reichsfilmcensorship issued a youth ban (No. 3761). The film had a length of five acts and a total of 1735 meters (approx. 95 minutes). It also ran under the title Die Schmugglermadonna or The beautiful animal . The Johann-Georg-Lichtspiele, Berlin-Halensee, Johann-Georg-Straße 19, opened with the film. At that time, Murnau lived in the immediate vicinity of the cinema, at Johann-Georg-Straße 21–22.

The film was thought to be lost for a long time . As the film historian Olaf Brill reported on his website filmhistoriker.de , a fragment of the film, which was in the possession of an Italian collector, was found and restored in 2010. It was shown publicly for the first time in October of that year at the Silent Film Festival in Pordenone . This Italian version was discovered in 1970 and acquired by a Roman museum and transferred to the National Film Archive in 2008.

reception

According to Lotte Eisner , this film is an anticipation of "the luminosity, the shadowy atmosphere of Murnau's rural chamber feature films" such as The Burning Acker , The Expulsion and Sunrise .

Web links

• Called Marizza the smugglers Madonna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marizza, called the smuggler Madonna at filmportal.de
• Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna on the pages of the Murnau Society
• Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna on the pages of the Deutsche Kinemathek
• Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna on the side of the Cineteca Nazionale

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3
2. ↑ The Italian version was 1572 meters long and was presented to the censors on April 2, 1923.
3. ↑ Time: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 8:30 p.m., location: Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, Pordenone, Italy, cf. Olaf Brill, Sept. 27, 2010 on filmhistoriker.de
4. ↑ http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/marizza-di-murnau-la-versione-restaurata/395445