Michelangelo - The Life of a Titan
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Michelangelo - The Life of a Titan |
| Country of production |
Germany Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938/1940 |
| length | 20 (1938), 93 (1940) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curt Oertel |
| script | Curt Oertel |
| production | Pandora film (Zurich), Tobis film (Berlin) |
| music | Alois Melichar |
| camera | Curt Oertel Harry Ringger |
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Michelangelo - The Life of a Titan is a German-Swiss documentary film created by Curt Oertel from 1937 to 1940 about the life and work of the painter , sculptor , architect and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti .
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The life and work of Michelangelo, one of the most important artists of the High Renaissance , is presented by the German actor Mathias Wieman as the narrator against the historical background of Michelangelo's time. It starts with the early works and shows the artist's late fame, with the film containing detailed considerations of some of the artist's best-known works. His life's work is also illustrated by photographs of Italian landscapes and old prints. The starting point of the film is a sonnet by Vittoria Colonna, who set a lyrical memorial to her contemporary and friend Michelangelo, which Curt Oertel translated into film.
Production notes and trivia
In 1937 Curt Oertel began shooting a short Michelangelo film in his own production and in collaboration with the Zurich production company Pandora-Film. The first 20-minute result was presented to an audience consisting of art historians for the first time on October 16, 1938 in the Scala cinema in Zurich. This version was later awarded at the Venice Biennale . In view of the outstanding reactions, Oertel and Pandora-Film decided to produce a full-length documentary about the Italian Renaissance genius in collaboration with Tobis-Film from Berlin. This film celebrated its world premiere on March 15, 1940 in Berlin under the title Michelangelo - The Life of a Titan . The Viennese premiere was on June 4, 1940, the one in Zurich on November 8, 1940. The German television first broadcast took place on April 12, 1954, in Austria the documentary was again shown in cinemas on May 4, 1956.
The well-known actor Mathias Wieman speaks the accompanying text from the off.
In 1950, Michelangelo, The Life of a Titan , was awarded the New York City College Prize for Documentary Documentary Creation.
This film was Robert J. Flaherty after the war a shortened by 23 minutes 70-minute US version under the title The Titan: Story of Michelangelo made. This version, which received the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1950 , won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 1951 Academy Awards .
Reviews
"... artistically and technically almost perfect image strips about Michelangelo, Curt Oertel's film that means something new, unique and special in the field of cultural film ..."
"Oertel's fame is based on the documentary Michelangelo (1940), in which he very vividly and vividly traced the artist's life and work and presented his most important works with an illuminating camera and in differentiated light."
Paimann's film lists summed up: “Without an actor's embodiment, a cross-section of the life and work of the master is offered through works; supplemented by maps and contemporary images, with a clairvoyant camera, in different lighting, ... symphonic music. "
“Documentary film about the life and works of Michelangelo (1475–1564) made over several years: on the basis of drawings, paintings, sculptures, buildings. Due to the loss of the German copies, it could only be performed again in a new version after the end of the war. The heroism of the film, which symphonically links its materials and puts its objects in an expressive light, is already clear in the subtitle: 'The life of a titan'. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Hervé Dumont: The history of Swiss film. Feature films 1896–1965. Lausanne 1987, p. 215
- ↑ Time . September 28, 1950
- ↑ Michelangelo in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from September 13, 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.
- ↑ Michelangelo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 8, 2018 .
