Nerves (film)
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| Original title | annoy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 2637 meters, after censorship 2054 meters, 110 minutes |
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| Director | Robert Reinert |
| script | Robert Reinert |
| production | Monumental-Filmwerke GmbH., Munich |
| music | new cinema music by Joachim Bärenz, Essen |
| camera | Helmar Lerski |
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Nerven is the title of a silent film drama that Robert Reinert realized in 1919 based on his own script and also in his own company, Monumental-Filmwerke GmbH. Munich produced. The studio recordings took place in the studio of the Transatlantic-Film-Comp., Munich-Nymphenburg, the outdoor recordings in the Nymphenburg castle and in the suburb of Au in Munich , in the Allgäu and at the Königssee . Helmar Lerski was in front of the camera . Among the actors were Erna Morena and Eduard von Winterstein .
action
Germany at the end of the First World War: "The explosive that war and hardship created in people" is portrayed as a "nervous epidemic" that has afflicted people and drives them to all kinds of deeds and guilt ".
The fates of various people from different social classes are described: the factory owner Roloff, who has lost his faith in technical progress, the teacher Johannes, who calls for social reforms in popular assemblies, and Marja, who - turning into a revolutionary - to armed struggle against calls to the rulers.
“The young Marja is about to get married to Richard, but has actually loved the teacher Johannes since childhood, who has become a kind of mouthpiece for the branded people and calls for social reforms; When he rejects her love, which he reciprocates but cannot reconcile with his biblical code, she takes revenge by accusing him of rape. Her brother, the factory owner Roloff, who has long since given up his belief in technical progress, swears in court that he saw the attack: his psyche has long been marked by war and destruction, and soon he will completely go mad. Marja later withdraws the accusation and becomes the leader of a revolutionary group: She wants to tie in with Johannes' ideology, but replaces his pacifist approaches with armed violence. In the end, even Roloff's wife, until then the only person who was perceived as unaffected, fell into insanity: She set Johannes' house on fire and killed his blind sister with it, then she went to the monastery to repent. "
reception
The original version of the film with 6 files (= 2637 meters) was banned by the censors in Bavaria in December 1919. Those from the Berlin Film Inspection Office under censorship no. B.738 approved rental constitution from November 15, 1920 had only 2054 meters.
Its world premiere took place in December 1919 at the Kammerlichtspiele in Munich.
In Berlin it was premiered on January 22nd, 1920 in the representative premier theater Marmorhaus on Kurfürstendamm .
It was awarded by the Süddeutsches Filmhaus company , which was part of the Bavarian Emelka Group.
Nerven was discussed by Heinz Schmid-Dimsch in Der Film 52/1919, Berlin December 28, 1919 and by Hans Wollenberg in Lichtbild-Bühne 4/1920, Berlin January 24, 1920; Viktor Klemperer , who saw the film at the Munich Chamber Light Theater on Kaufingerstrasse , wrote down his impressions in his diary on January 6, 1920. He found that the film had "been given special (gruesome) music".
Reviews
“ Nerven tries a bit bumpy to bring melodrama and social analysis under one roof - but the content, however analytical it may seem, is only the hook. The presentation is significantly heavier and it is enormously fascinating. Born in Austria, Robert Reinert (1872–1928) created one of the first expressionist German silent films, which is particularly evident in the virtuoso opening sequence with its courageous montage. After that the plot takes on more conventional features, but the images are always of an impressive nature. "
“The film is said to have driven several people from Munich crazy until the police chief intervened personally and had Reinert's darkly delirious drama about the decline of a family of industrialists handed over to the censorship authorities. The radical Reinert, who was close to Oswald Spengler's ideas, reached his artistic peak in 1918/19 of all places, when Germany sank deeper and deeper into the chaos of the last months of the war and the emerging revolution ”.
"The opening sequence of the film is an early masterpiece of montage art and looks extremely modern: It creates a panorama of decay and madness, including the extremely daring images of violence and nudity for the year 1919, interrupted by the word 'nerves', sometimes faded in like an inter-title, sometimes undermining the action; Robert Reinert's opening with its dramaturgical inclusion of script and its enormous stylization basically anticipates Sergej M. Eisenstein ... “.
Republication
Stefan Drößler from the Munich Film Museum painstakingly reconstructed Robert Reinert's film classics mutilated by the censorship, which anticipates elements of the expressionist silent film of the 1920s and represents a unique contemporary document. Material was available to him from the following sources:
- Gosfilmfond Moscow: at 1,646 meters, the longest surviving copy, a version of the Berlin version shortened by scenes of the revolution and street battles, which itself had to accept recuts, cuts and the loss of the "living subtitles".
- Library of Congress: Film fragment NERVES, 777 meters long, viraged and toned, the closest to the Munich original.
- Federal Film Archive in Berlin: 65 meters, also viraged and toned.
The pianist Joachim Bärenz from Essen has created a new musical accompaniment. The film was released on DVD together with a booklet with essays on the film by Jan-Christopher Horak , Stefan Drößler and David Bordwell in the Edition Filmmuseum .
literature
- David Cairns, article “The Forgotten: Sick!” August 9, 2012 at mubi.com
- Stefan Drößler: "Nerves" - Reconstruction of a forgotten classic film. In: Edition filmmuseum 41, Munich 2009, on line at academia.edu
- Ulrich Kurowski, Silvia Wolf: The Munich Film and Cinema Book. Edition Achteinhalb, Lothar Just, Ebersberg, 1988. ISBN 9783923979110 , pp. 33–34
- Petra Putz: Waterloo in Geiselgasteig. The history of the Munich film company Emelka (1919–1933) in the antagonism between Bavaria and the Reich. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 1996.
- Sarah Sander, article “Outside the door” at querschritt: kinotexte
- Extra about "nerves" in Ricci's Journal du Cinéma, November 25, 2010
- Jörg Smotlacha, Heike Werner: Article “Deep uncertainty”, November 28, 2008 at langeleine.de
- Doundou Tchil: detailed description of the contents of “nerves” in classical-iconoclast
- Sascha Westphal, article "The film that drove Munich people crazy" in Die Welt on December 29, 2009
Web links
- Nerves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nerves at filmportal.de
- Nerves at The German Early Cinema Database
- Nerves at beforecaligari.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ so 'Scapinelli' in: Deutsche Lichtspiel-Zeitung, Munich, No. 28, July 19, 1919, cf. filmportal.de and beforecaligari.org
- ↑ as 'extra' ( page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Ricci's Journal du cinéma
- ↑ Censorship card ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 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. at beforecaligari.org
- ↑ cf. Kammerlichtspiele In: Kinowiki .
- ↑ Fig. Of the cinema poster by Josef Fenneker for the performance in the Marmorhaus at [1] , reproduction of the program by: Robert Reinert, “Program for Nerven,” From Kinema to Caligari: Sources, accessed on November 24, 2013, archived copy ( Memento des Originals dated December 6, 2013 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.
- ↑ EMELKA = Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG (MLK), united like the 'Prussian' Ufa under one roof production, distribution and cinema park, a “cultural film” department, film copiers and studios (Geiselgasteig), cf. Lexicon of film terms [2] and Putz 1996
- ↑ Texts reproduced at edition-filmmuseum.com
- ↑ cf. beforecaligari.org ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 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. , there more contemporary reviews.
- ↑ so Marco at molodezhnaja.ch
- ↑ so Sascha Westphal December 29, 2009
- ↑ as 'extra' ( page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Ricci's Journal du Cinéma, page 6
- ↑ "... from the film fragments of various editing sequences and quality scattered from Moscow via the Federal Film Archive in Berlin to the Library of Congress ..." reports Sarah Sander at [3] .
- ↑ Information from the information sheet of the Munich Film Museum for the Berlinale 2008 Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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. (PDF; 91 kB)
- ↑ cf. General-Anzeiger Bonn August 21, 2008: Joachim Bärenz was instrumental in the renaissance of the silent film since the 1970s. He is considered a brilliant improviser, but also works on original compositions and uses contemporary motif compilations. Bärenz has been the pianist in the dance department of the Folkwang University since 1984. In 2003 he was awarded the Film Critics' Prize for his services to silent film dubbing. [4] , and stummfilm.info Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2013 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.
- ↑ cf. edition film museum [5]
- ↑ "The Forgotten: Sick!" August 9, 2012 at mubi.com
- ↑ In: Edition filmmuseum 41, Munich 2009, on line at academia.edu
- ^ Edition Achteinhalb, Lothar Just, Ebersberg, 1988. ISBN 9783923979110 , pp. 33–34
- ↑ kinotexte on querschritt.wordpress.com
- ↑ "Nerves" in 'Ricci's Journal du Cinéma' November 25, 2010 on forum.moviemaze.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ November 28, 2008 at langeleine.de
- ↑ Description of the contents of "Nerves" in classical-iconoclast (English)
- ↑ “The film that drove Munich people crazy” in “Die Welt” on December 29, 2009 on welt.de.
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