Salome (1919)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Salome |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 6 acts, 1805 meters, after censorship 1533 meters, at 18 fps 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eugene Burg |
| script | Robert Heymann |
| production | Wanda Treumann |
| camera | Josef Dietze |
| occupation | |
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Salome is a German film drama by Eugen Burg from 1919. The silent film was made based on a script by Robert Heymann for the film company Treumann-Larsen Film-Vertriebs GmbH. Berlin. Wanda Treumann took over the title role, accompanied by Josef Peterhans , Ferdinand Bonn and Ida Perry .
action
The plot, which does not adhere to the biblical Salome material, was moved to the time of Alexandre Dumas ' “Three Musketeers”: The president Filipe Hero and the journalist Manuel Bragelona are political opponents, but both court Salome. Because of an insult she has the journalist killed - and dies too. (according to GECD)
background
The film was produced by the leading actress Wanda Treumann in her own company, the “Treumann-Larsen Film GmbH”, founded in 1912 with her husband Carl Treumann, in Berlin. The costume designs came from Mathieu Pruschinski, the buildings were built by the Dutch production designer Mathieu Oosterman . Josef Dietze was in charge of the camera, and the film was distributed with a virus.
“Salome” was submitted to the Berlin police for censorship in January 1920 and received the number 43 758 youth ban. The Berlin Reich Film Censorship also confirmed the verdict on June 4, 1920 under number 2590.
“Salome” was premiered in December 1919 in “UT Unter den Linden”, which was reopened in the same year as “Lichtspielpalast”.
literature
- Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970.
- Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Decisions d. Film censorship: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart: 1911-1920. Munich: Saur 1980
- Herbert Birett: Sources on film history 1906-1920. On the history of film censorship, (online)
- Herbert Birett: Sources on film history 1920 - 1931. Title list of German silent films at kinematographie.de (online)
Web links
- Salome at The German Early Cinema Database
- Salome at filmportal.de
- The Salome at kinotv.com [1]
- Biographical notes on Wanda Treumann at kinotv.com [2]
- Biographical notes on Ferdinand Bonn at kinotv.com [3]
Individual evidence
- ↑ there is a viscount de Bragelonne in the third part of the novel
- ↑ cf. Sabine Lenk at filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de
- ↑ cf. allekinos.de: UT Unter den Linden , accessed on October 2, 2016.