Orient Express (1927)

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Movie
Original title Orient express
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Wilhelm Thiele
script Wilhelm Thiele
production Phoebus-Film AG
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Karl Puth
occupation

and Julius von Szöreghy , Iris Arlan , Georg D. Gürtler , Max Maximilian , Neumann students

Orientexpress is a German silent film melodrama from 1927 by Wilhelm Thiele with Lil Dagover and Heinrich George in the leading roles.

action

Peter Karg is the station manager of a train station on the same route that the famous Orient Express runs. The somewhat stocky and somewhat clumsy-looking railroad worker has always dreamed of the big, wide world for which the Orient Express symbolizes. But the train never stops, and so these dreams fly away at the same pace as the train rushes past its little station. One day, contrary to expectations, the express actually stops, and a lady from this “big, wide world” is put in his bed, who obviously needs several days of strict bed rest. This grande dame is the elegant Beate von Morton, whom he looks after as best he can. After a few days she feels better again and leaves the small, inhospitable ward home and returns to her own, sophisticated world.

Karg then feels infinitely alone, especially since he promptly fell in love with the noble woman, and begins to drink. Karg no longer does his job according to regulations and lets himself go. Driven by endless longing, he leaves everything and goes after the woman, whom he can no longer get out of his thoughts, into the big city. When he stands in front of Beate von Morton's house, her wedding is being celebrated there. He is granted admission, there he looks like a clumsy bear in his clumsy sluggishness that does not fit into this upper-class glittering world. Deeply disaffected, Karg realizes that this is not his place and decides to return immediately to his own little world, the idyllic village.

Production notes

Orient Express was made in May and June 1927 in the Phoebus studio and passed the film censorship on August 1, 1927. The film was 2627 meters long, divided into six acts. A youth ban was issued. The premiere took place on September 22, 1927 in Berlin's marble house .

Karl Machus created the film structures based on designs by Hans Baluschek .

criticism

In the Austrian film newspaper it was said: “The film wants to be a good intimate play, and it is. There is something infinitely soft, kind and womanly about Lil Dagover about her. Heinrich George, the station master, is again one of his poignant, simple creatures. (...) The director Thiele, who is also a manuscript author, is an understanding director and skillfully works out the subtleties of these large-scale characters and their connection ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Orient Express". In:  Österreichische Film-Zeitung , October 15, 1927, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fil

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