Palos bridal trip
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Palos bridal trip |
| Original title | Palos brudefærd |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Dalsheim |
| script | Knud Rasmussen |
| production | Svend Nielsen |
| music | Emil Reesen |
| camera |
Hans Scheib , Walter Traut |
| cut | Georges C. Stilly |
| occupation | |
|
Non-professional actors from the Ammassalik district | |
Palos Brautfahrt (original title: Palos brudefærd ) is a semi-documentary, Danish fiction film from 1934 based on a script by polar explorer Knud Rasmussen . The German ethnologist Friedrich Dalsheim directed it . The authentic film deals with the East Greenland Inuit culture .
action
The two seal hunters friends, Palo and Samo, court the hand of the beautiful Navarana, who feels flattered by their advances. The competition of the suitors intensifies more and more and takes on violent features, whereupon the village elders decide on a traditional competition. The winner is allowed to ask for Navarana's hand. So it happens that the two rivals duel in front of the villagers in a drum dance with singing. Meanwhile, Navarana's brothers realize how much they are dependent on their sister in the household, and without further ado they kidnap her to their winter quarters. In the competition, Samo stabs his opponent when he threatens to lose hope. Palo is then nursed back to health by a shaman and goes on an adventurous journey to his beloved in a kayak .
production
Pâlos brudefærd was created as part of Knud Rasmussen's last Greenland expedition in 1933. The polar explorer not only acted as the initiator of the film project, but also contributed the script and selected the actors who were to recreate the way of life of the previous generation. The film was shot on location in the Ammassalik region in 35mm format . The German ethnologist Friedrich Dalsheim directed it . The Danish composer Emil Reesen contributed the classical background music, which was played by the Royal Band . Screenwriter and initiator Knud Rasmussen died of meat poisoning at the end of the year and did not live to see the premiere of the film on March 5, 1934. The artist Kârale Andreassen , who was hired as a technical consultant, also died before the film premiered. Dalsheim committed suicide two years later.
reception
The film is considered remarkable because of its authentic everyday scenes. In addition to the tradition of the drum dance, essential components of Inuit culture such as seal hunting in a kayak and shamanism as well as coexistence in general are presented. In a retrospective at the 51st Nordic Film Days Lübeck , the film was described as follows in 2009:
" Due to its ethnographically unadulterated and cinematographically beautiful shots, Palo's bridal trip is one of the highlights of the cinematic capture of nature and culture in Greenland."
In 1934, Palo's bridal trip was nominated at the Venice Film Festival for the first ever Coppa Mussolini , the previous award for the Golden Lion . In 1937 he was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the National Board of Review .
In a former expedition station, a German sailor discovered a copy of the film that she brought to Germany and had it restored at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . The State Museum for Nature and Man showed the film on May 26, 2016 together with works by the painter Carl Rasmussen .
The film has been available on DVD since 2007 and on Blu-ray since 2013 and is offered by Flicker Alley in a set with the stylistic predecessor Nanuk, the Eskimo (1922). There is neither an English nor a German dubbed version , but English subtitles do exist .
Web links
- Palos Brautfahrt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Catalog page of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck (PDF).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Retrospective - Palo's Bridal Trip. (PDF) Nordic Film Days Lübeck , 2009, accessed on March 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Palos brudefærd. danskefilm.dk, accessed on March 25, 2017 (Danish).
- ^ Sabine Barth: Greenland. Dumont Reise-Taschenbuch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7701-7398-3 , p. 271.
- ↑ Palos brudefærd. Film Affinity, accessed March 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Hausmann: “Palo's Bridal Trip” in icy Greenland. In: Nordwest-Zeitung . May 24, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .