Phantom (1922)
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| Original title | phantom |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1922 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau |
| script | Thea von Harbou , Hans Heinrich von Twardowski |
| production | Erich Pommer |
| music | Leo Spies |
| camera | Axel Graatkjær , Theophan Ouchakoff |
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Phantom is a German silent film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from 1922. The film is assigned to the Expressionist style and was based on the novel of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann .
action
Looking back, Lorenz Lubota writes down the story of his life: He is a clerk in the city, a bookworm and a would-be poet. One day on his way to work he is hit by a horse-drawn carriage. He is beguiled by the beauty of the driver, Veronica's daughter of the wealthy hardware dealer Harlan, and from then on chases after her like a phantom. Lubota slips into his own surreal dream world. His thoughts only revolve around getting close to Veronika, he even goes to her parents' house and proposes marriage. Rejected and humiliated, Lubota neglects his life and loses his job.
By chance he meets Melitta, who looks very similar to Veronika. He consoles himself with her, who is robbing him of his money and for whom he is also lending money to his aunt, the pawnbroker Schwabe, under the false claim that he will soon receive royalties for his poetry publications. When his aunt threatens to report his fraud to the police, Lubota gets involved with the seedy Vigottschinski. At night they break into the pawnbroker's shop to steal their money from the safe. When they are surprised by her, Viigottschinsky kills them.
Lubota is imprisoned as an accomplice. When he is released, the bookbinder daughter Marie is waiting for Lubota. She has always secretly loved him and is now taking care of him.
background
The shooting took place in the film studios and the outdoor area of the Decla-Bioscop in Neubabelsberg , today's Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam . The buildings in the film were made by Hermann Warm and Erich Czerwonski .
The premiere of Phantom took place on the occasion of Gerhart Hauptmann's 60th birthday on November 13, 1922 in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo .
The author of the literary source can be seen briefly at the beginning of the film.
Reviews
For Béla Balázs , this film is … a brilliant attempt to… show the world in the color of a temperament, in the illumination of a feeling: objectified poetry .
Fred Gehler thinks that Lorenz Lubota's story is not only the experience of an amour fou and its consequences, it also reflects the situation of the German petty bourgeois immediately after the war and the November Revolution - his disturbed relationship to reality, his vacillation, his perplexity .
literature
- Fred Gehler Phantom . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 80 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- Phantom at filmportal.de
- Phantom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- contemporary reviews (PDF; 588 kB)
- for TV first broadcast at arte
Individual evidence
- ^ Film portal: “Everything is in motion - Babelsberg in the Weimar Republic” www.filmportal.de, accessed February 23, 2016
- ^ Filmzentrale: "Phantom (1922)" www.filmzentrale.com, accessed February 23, 2016
- ↑ Béla Balázs in “The Day” v. April 20, 1923 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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.
- ↑ German feature films from the beginning until 1933 , p. 80 f.
