Police File 909

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Movie
German title Police File 909
Original title typhoon
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Robert Wiene
script Robert Wiene
production Robert Wiene
Adolf Noé
music Stefan Rényi
Helmut Wolfes (musical director)
camera Heinrich Gärtner
cut Carl-Otto Bartning
occupation

Polizeiakte 909 is a German feature film from 1933 by Robert Wiene , the last German production of which was this. Liane Haid , Viktor de Kowa and Valéry Inkijinoff play the leading roles. The story is based on Melchior Lengyel's play Taifun (1909).

action

Dr. Nitobe Tokeramo, a Japanese living in Paris, is on an important mission for his country. However, friends and acquaintances of his are astonished to see that Tokeramo has recently devoted himself more and more to private pleasures instead of important tasks. His enthusiasm is currently a small cabaret in the Parisian district of Montmartre , the "White Lily". The attractive chanson singer Helene Laroche appears here. Although Helene has had a friend in the Revolverblatt journalist Charles Renard-Brinski for two years, she is inexplicably drawn to the exotic-looking Tokeramo. Helene and the Japanese spend happy weeks together in the following years, but the French woman experiences the man from the Far East as difficult to fathom, despite all the affection, as a man who, in his reticence, will ultimately always remain a stranger to her.

Tokeramo's closest confidante, Yoshikawa, reminds him one day why he is in Paris and that he must no longer neglect his duty. As a principled and disciplined Japanese, Tokeramo then cuts off his relationship with Helene, which affects her deeply. Helene doesn't like to accept this decision and tries to get him to revise it. Helene reminds Tokeramo that he said he loved her, and the Japanese replies that this is exactly the reason why he separates from her, as he does not want to harm her soul. Helene then gets emotionally out of hand, love turns into hate. Her whole desire only wants one thing: to inflict the greatest possible damage to Tokeramo. And so one day she took a Japanese document that later fell into the hands of the unscrupulous riot journalist Renard-Brinski.

Renard-Brinski plans to take advantage of this and tries to use this document to blackmail Tokeramo. Soon there is a real duel between these two fundamentally different men who only have one thing in common: their passionate love for Helene. This is also the real reason why both encounter escalated extremely. In anger, Tokeramo puts his hands around Renard-Brinski's neck and strangles him. Since Tokeramo's mission is too important to fail because of an act of the highest passion guided by private motives, one of his Japanese friends likes to take the blame after a long consultation so that Tokeramo remains unmolested. His compatriot Inose Hironari is willing to make this sacrifice and, after the court has been tricked, has to serve a long prison sentence instead of Tokeramo. Tokerami says goodbye to Helene in a polite and distanced manner, because he wants to finish his mission quickly and then voluntarily surrender to justice.

Production notes

Police file 909 was created from the beginning of January to mid-February 1933 under the title Taifun in the Terra Glass House in Berlin-Marienfelde . The premiere planned for Germany was postponed for a long time because the National Socialists had taken power in the middle of the shooting and the director Wiene was a prominent Jew. Thereupon the film was presumably premiered on March 16, 1933 in Hungary, the Austrian premiere took place unabridged under the original title Taifun in Vienna on August 25, 1933. In the German Reich the censorship authority banned the showing of Taifun on August 30, 1933. Only after one The film was also allowed to be shown in Germany in a series of cuts and follow-ups and has now been given the new title Police Files 909 . The German premiere took place on July 27, 1934 in Berlin's Primus-Palast. The name Robert Wienes was not mentioned in the opening credits.

Artur Schwarz designed the film structures, Emil Specht provided the sound. Manager was Conny Carstennsen .

criticism

The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “The main features of 'Taifun' are taken from Melchior Lengyel's well-known play and has also proven to be an effective subject in its modified form, adapted to the requirements of the film. (...) In the film directed by Robert Wiene, Inkischinoff is ideally placed as Tokeramo's actor, his partner is Liane Haid, who shows new nuances of her skills. "

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 5th year 1934. S. 175 (105.34), Berlin 1993
  2. ↑ "Typhoon". In:  Österreichische Film-Zeitung , September 2, 1933, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fil

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