Peter the Great (1923)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Peter the Great |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dimitri Buchowetzki |
| script | Ludwig Metzger-Holland |
| production | European Film Alliance |
| camera |
Willy Hameister , Curt Courant |
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Peter the Great is a German historical silent film from 1922 by Dimitri Buchowetzki with Emil Jannings in the title role.
action
A few scenes from the life of the famous Russian tsar are shown. In Russia in the early 18th century, Tsar Peter wanted to raise his son to be a worthy and powerful heir to the throne. With this intention, however, he meets the resistance of his wife, the Tsarina Eudoxia, who is completely under the influence of the Orthodox Church. Finally there is a rift and the empress is banished from her wife to the Suzdal monastery far away.
Peter's son, the Tsarevich, turns out to be ungrateful and rebellious to his father and soon turns out to be the head of a conspiracy against the Tsar. The absolutist ruler then lets his own flesh and blood fusilate without further ado. This cruel act will not let go of him from now on and accompanies Peter's infirmity. From then on he placed the fate of his country in the hands of his second wife, Tsarina Katharina.
Production notes
Peter the Great had six acts over a length of 2,545 meters. The film, shot in the Efa studio at the zoo, was censored on November 27, 1922 and, depending on the source, premiered on February 9 or November 2, 1923 in Berlin's Alhambra on Kurfürstendamm .
The buildings were designed by Hans Dreier , Walter Schulze-Mittendorf created the sculptures, and Victor Aden created the costumes.
“In the film“ Peter the Great ”(1923), the director Buchowetzki selected too small a sector from the life of the great Russian tsar, so that ultimately all that remains in the memory of this film is the battle of Poltava, filled with huge crowds . Emil Jannings as Peter was too human, not heroic, so that Peter's "greatness" was nowhere to be expressed properly. "
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The subject puts the game scene in the foreground, subordinating the depiction of historical events to it, which leads to the avoidance of the length otherwise unavoidable in costume films, just as the director allows the mass scene to be developed only for the sake of the game scene. The presentation is excellent, Jannings as Tsar Peter outstanding. The technical side of the picture also deserves unreserved praise. "
Web links
- Peter the Great in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter the Great at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter the Great . In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's Filmlisten , Nr. 359_5, February 23, 1923, accessed October 11, 2016 .
