Monna Vanna (1922)
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| Original title | Monna Vanna |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1922 |
| length | 146 minutes |
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| Director | Richard Eichberg |
| script |
Helmuth Ortmann Ola Alsen based on historical treatises by Niccolò Machiavelli and Paolo Giovio |
| production | Richard Eichberg |
| camera |
Franz planner Georg Schubert Max Lutze |
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Monna Vanna is a German history and costume silent film from 1922. Directed by Richard Eichberg play Paul Wegener and Eichberg's then wife Lee Parry the leading roles. The story is based on Maurice Maeterlinck 's play of the same name .
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The story takes place in Italy shortly before the dawn of the High Renaissance , at the end of the 15th century. At the center of the action is the 17-year-old orphan Madonna Giovanna, known by everyone for short as "Monna Vanna". She was born in Venice and is kidnapped by Guido Gurlino, the ruler of Pisa, after Gurlino's wedding to the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi broke off due to an uncovered conspiracy. The consequences are dramatic, because as a result of this grave event, war rages between Pisa and Florence, the two most important urban centers of power in central and northern Italy. The Florentines then besiege Pisa and finally take the city. Monna Vanna is now sitting between all the chairs. Gurlino, who had to do without Maddalena, now wants to marry Monna Vanna, who, however, is reluctant, because she sinks into the arms of the young general Pitellozo Vitelli.
Vitelli is already being pestered by the renegade Gurlino bride Maddalena, who genuinely loves the attractive Florentine, an enemy and occupier of Pisa. While the fighting flares up, Monna Vanna takes care of the needy people of Pisa in a self-sacrificing way. Soon Monna possessed the boundless love of the urban population. Vitelli, on the other hand, shows pity and arranges for food deliveries to be made in the starving and emaciated city. Monna Vanna decides to go to the enemy's camp and sacrifice herself for the good of the city. But Vitelli does not accept her victim and is even drawn as a traitor by his own people. He has his Florentine troops withdrawn from the siege ring while he rushes to Monna Vanna. After Guido Gurlino's death, Vitelli can finally marry the noble Monna Vanna.
Production notes
Monna Vanna was created between May and September 1922 in the Jofa studios in Berlin-Johannisthal and in the Emelka studios in Geiselgasteig near Munich. The exterior shots were made in Dachau-Etzhausen. The film was 3346 meters long, divided into seven acts. Monna Vanna passed the film censorship on December 5, 1922 and was premiered on December 20, 1922 in the Leipzig UT-Lichtspiele. The Berlin premiere took place one day later in the marble house.
Kurt Richter designed the extensive film structures that were implemented by him, Willy Reiber and Jacques Rotmil . Walter Böhm designed the costumes.
Leading actors Wegener and Lyda Salmonova , who embodies the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi here, were married to each other.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists found: "Despite the predominance of the presentation in some places, the subject retains a lot of tension, the presentation is in line with the demands made on equipment films, the equipment is up to date in every respect."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monna Vanna ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2017 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. in Paimann's film lists
Web links
- Monna Vanna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Monna Vanna at filmportal.de