Mata Hari (1927)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mata Hari |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | approx. 131 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Fehér |
| script | Leo Birinsky |
| production | National Film AG, Berlin |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Leopold Kutzleb |
| occupation | |
and Carl Zickner , Nico Turoff , Louis Brody , Zlatan Kacheroff , Dorothea Albu , Georg Gartz . | |
Mata Hari is a German silent film from 1927 by Friedrich Fehér with Magda Sonja in the title role of Mata Hari .
action
Just before and during the First World War. The Dutch dancer Margarethazell has a relationship with the Russian Grand Duke Boris. When she meets the handsome Russian farmer Grigori, the later known as Mata Hari falls head over heels in love with him and lets the old high nobility slip away. But he has Grigori arrested in order to put Mata Hari under pressure to spy for the Russians.
On behalf of an embassy attaché, the first thing she should do is obtain the plans for an opposing fortress. This is how the dancer comes into contact with the Austrian Archduke Oskar. When Mata Hari dragged in falsified documents and handed them over to her client, the Russians arrested her as a spy. Since she wants to give Grigori freedom, Mata Hari confesses that she has not committed espionage and is then sentenced to death by a military court.
Production notes
Mata Hari , also known by the subtitled title Mata Hari the Red Dancer , was filmed in Staaken in February and March 1927. The eight-act, 3275-meter-long film, which does not adhere to any historical facts, was censored on March 17, 1927 and premiered on May 2, 1927 in the Berlin Phoebus Palace and Marble House . In the US, Mata Hari premiered on July 16, 1927 at the Broadway Palace in Los Angeles.
The buildings were designed by Alfred Junge , Hans Fritz Köllner was the production manager.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The subject is very exciting at the beginning and towards the end. In the middle it subsides, but without any length. The presentation is good; Magda Sonja may not be an ideal, but at least a sufficient cast for the title role. "
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse reported on September 9, 1927: “Now the adventurous life of this strange woman has also tempted the film to put her case forward. He does this, however, far from the historical truth by correcting a tragic love fate from Mata Hari's last chapter in life. The film does not deal with Gertrud Margaretezelle, the Dutch bourgeois child, and not with her failed marriage, from which the unfortunate woman later fled into the career of a celebrated dance and love artist. (…) It's not the story of Mata Hari, and that's a shame, but it is an exciting, well-structured film story, the focus of which is the magnificent appearance of Magda Sonja. "
Web links
- Mata Hari in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mata Hari at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mata Hari in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Mata Hari". In: Neue Freie Presse , September 9, 1927, p. 16 (online at ANNO ).
