Nocturno (1915)

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Movie
Original title Nocturno
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1915
Rod
Director Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
production Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
occupation

Nocturno is a German silent film melodrama from 1915.

action

A young count is seriously ill at home in the castle bed and needs the daily, self-sacrificing care of his mother and sister. One day a gypsy troop travels through the country with an old, shabby maringotte (a small bus-like carriage with a horse) and also stops in the area. A beautiful, well-built girl is getting some attention with her barefoot dances. The count's heart is instantly aflame, and the moribund aristocrat asks the classy beauty for a rendezvous at night in the palace gardens. The gypsy girl also feels drawn to the needy youth. From the open castle windows sages of Chopinian sounds - hence the film title - ring out to them, and the girl begins to dance, just for him. Enchanted by overflowing emotions, the count forgets his illness for a moment, kisses her passionately and gives the sensual dancer a ring, a family heirloom, as an expression of his deeply felt love. But then an even stronger fever threw him back onto the sick bed.

The gypsy returns to the street and tries to catch up with her people, who have already moved on with the Maringotte. On the highway, she is stopped and checked by a police officer. When the vigilante discovers the precious ring with the count's coat of arms on her, he immediately assumes that the gypsy girl must have stolen it. The ring is handed over to the doctor who is called to the castle, with the request that the piece of jewelry be returned to its owner, who is struggling with death. In his feverish fantasies, however, the young count repeatedly calls for his dancer. Based on these words, the doctor realizes that the ring must have been a gift from the count to the dancer. The gypsy girl is immediately released from custody. Immediately she rushes to his deathbed and dances again, for the last time, for her lover. Then his heart stops beating. "In a quiet night she still sprinkles flowers on the dead man's bed and then she too seeks redemption from all earthly sufferings in the water of the nearby pond."

Production notes

Nocturno , often with the subtitle The Dream of a Spring Night , was probably made in spring / mid-1915 in the BB-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Steglitz and had four acts. The film passed the censorship in August 1915, was banned from young people and was premiered a little later.

criticism

“The term drama in the sense of the usual terminology for film works of a serious nature is actually not the right expression for this film game, which is deeply felt in both the development and the plot. It is rhythmic grace that breathes the individual scenes of this cinematographic poetry, almost alien to real life, which must touch the heart of the beholder and trigger the most soulful moods. (...) In the role of the gypsy girl, the well-known Munich nude dancer Olga Desmond knows how to weave a wealth of cozy motifs, especially in her artistic dances, and to give deeply moving expression to the film poetry, which is so beautiful. The technique of this picture, which is characterized by excellent photography and scenes that are really captured with an artistic eye, is also in accordance with the plot and the presentation. And so "Nocturno" is a milestone in the field of poetic art. "

- Cinematographic review of July 18, 1915. P. 52 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original text of the Kinematographische Rundschau from July 18, 1915. P. 53

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