Latin Quarter (1928)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Latin Quarter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
German French |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Augusto Genina |
| script |
Curt J. Braun Fritz Falkenstein Augusto Genina |
| production | Georg M. Jacoby |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Eduard Hösch |
| occupation | |
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Quartier Latin is a German silent film love drama from 1928 directed by Augusto Genina with international cast . The leading roles are the French Gina Manès , the Italian Carmen Boni , the Swede Helga Thomas and the Hungarian Iván Petrovich . The story is based on a template by Maurice Dekobra .
action
Paris, in the 1920s. The young Ralph O'Connor, a wealthy man from a good family, is invited to the artists' ball in the Latin Quarter. Here he met the student Louisette, a talented young painter, with whom he instantly fell in love. In order to have a chance with her, Ralph poses as an artist. Not wanting to show off, Ralph pretends to be as poor a hunger artist as she is. Ralph hopes she will fall in love with him, not his fortune.
The truth, however, comes to light because Ralph briefly gets involved with the Grand Duchess Bolinsky, a seductive lady of the world who has a great hunger for men. When Louisette assumes that Ralph has left for Venice with his latest conquest, the young artist loses all hope. Louisette throws herself in front of a train with suicidal intent and lets herself be rolled over by it. Thereupon the Jack of Hearts Ralph rushes to her sick bed and shows the dying woman that he has not been unfaithful to her.
Production notes
Quartier Latin was created in Staaken (studio recordings) and in Paris (exterior recordings). The film passed the censorship on 29 December 1928, was on May 10, 1929 in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo premiered. The film had seven acts, spread over 3,053 meters, and was banned from young people.
Franz Schroedter designed the film structures.
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A subject that is not only based on the“ bohème ”but also has the charm of Murger's novels is staged with a number of effective, nice ideas, the mood of Parisian artist and student life is clever captured. (...) The presentation is very good, as is the photography and the presentation very beautiful. "
Web links
- Latin Quarter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Quartier Latin at filmportal.de
