People and Masks (1923)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | People and masks |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | approx. 161 (both parts together) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Piel |
| script |
Edmund Heuberger Max Bauer |
| production | Harry Piel Heinrich secondary number for Ha Pe Film Co. (Berlin) |
| camera |
Gotthardt Wolf Georg Muschner |
| occupation | |
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People and Masks is a two-part, German adventure silent film by and with Harry Piel from 1923.
action
A well-known film actor is currently traveling. During his tour of Europe, he met an Indian ruler and they became friends. One of the two had the idea to swap roles for the time of the vacation trip, and so the actor became the emir and the ruler the artist.
The fun turns serious when suddenly Pasantasena, the ruler's bride, appears and tells him that unrest has broken out in his country. So the wrong emir has to hurry to India to calm down the angry feelings there. Finally, the real emir also returns and can save the actor / false emir from having to marry his bride for the sake of peace.
Production notes
People and Masks owned two parts: The False Emir and A Dangerous Game . The double feature was censored on November 24th (Part 1) and November 29, 1923 (Part 2). Both parts were premiered on New Year's Day 1924 in the Alhambra on Kurfürstendamm. The first part of the strip was six acts long and 1,873 meters long. The second part also had a length of six acts and was 1,896 meters long. A youth ban was issued for both parts.
Harry Piel was seen in a dual role. The film structures were designed by Kurt Richter . Co-author Edmund Heuberger had the manager .
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up:
“To come to the point: the whole thing is again completely in the Harry Piels genre and tailored to the tastes of his audience. This time the subject is, to its advantage, less fantastic than in the earlier appearances of this brand, it is entertaining throughout and staged at a brisk pace. With regard to the presentation, Harry Piel's performance deserves a mention, the rest of the ensemble is a bit dull, but this is less of a factor in films of this type. The photography is very good this time. "
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse reported in its September 2, 1924 issue:
“Although Harry Piel knows how to wear the pompous Asian robes with noble decorum, he looks most interesting when he plays himself. If only because you can watch him take a film, so to speak, you get to see a film in a film and such studio secrets and jokes can always be sure of the audience effect. Incidentally, there are so many amazing tricks to be seen in this film that you accept the inconsistencies of the plot. (...) Photography is almost artistic, and the only regret is that such a expenditure of artistic and technical achievements does not benefit a more valuable plot. "
In 1935, Oskar Kalbus ' Vom becoming German film art described the principle of Pielscher films as follows:
“Even in the sensational films of the war time, Harry Piel was the“ man without nerves ”. He has always remained the same, who carries out his sensations with his peculiar mastery of elegance and bravura. In all of his films it is part of his personal bad luck that criminals always pursue him, or else he is the liberator of persecuted innocence. Women especially like that. That is why Harry Piel was one of the most popular actors on the German screen in the silent film era. "
Web links
- People and masks, 1st part: The wrong emir at filmportal.de
- People and masks, part 2: A dangerous game at filmportal.de
- People and masks, Part 1: The wrong Emir in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- People and masks, Part 2: A dangerous game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ People and masks in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "People and Masks". In: Neue Freie Presse , September 2, 1924, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. 1st part: The silent film. Berlin 1935. pp. 89 f.
