Shadow (1923)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | shadow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 1710 m, at 18 fps 83 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Robison |
| script |
Rudolf Schneider Arthur Robison |
| production |
Enrico Dieckmann Willy Seibold |
| music | Ernst Riege |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| occupation | |
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Shadow is a German silent film by Arthur Robison from 1923. It was also awarded under the alternative titles Schatten - The Night of Knowledge and Shadow - A Nocturnal Hallucination , in the Anglophone-speaking area also as Warning Shadows .
action
A husband is driven by his jealousy. He follows his attractive wife every step of the way, convinced of her infidelity. At dinner in the evening, he thinks he finally has proof of her infidelity. He watches the shadow play behind a curtain. His wife is groped by men's hands. But the shadows deceive him. In truth, these are meaningless gestures, his wife is not even touched by the men. A showman present notices the husband's madness and knows how the deception came about. With a hypnosis he would like to show those present the truth. He shows the hypnotized guests a shadow play that is supposed to show them their erotic desires and fears. The game ends in a grotesque execution of the young woman, the raging husband is thrown out of the window by the cavaliers. After the guests have woken up from the trance , they leave the house. The game has brought clarity between the couple, the husband realizes that his wife is loyal to him.
background
Director Robison managed to make this silent film without subtitles. He and the writer Rudolf Schneider wrote the screenplay based on an idea by Albin Grau , who also designed the set.
The film, which Grau produced in his “Pan-Film GmbH” on behalf of the German-American Film Union AG “DAFU” for producer Enrico Dieckmann, had its world premiere on October 16, 1923 in Berlin in the U. T. at Nollendorfplatz . The shadow play shown in the film was designed, made and demonstrated by Ernst Moritz Engert .
premiere
The music for the premiere was written and conducted by the German composer Ernst Riege (* 1885; † 1976).
Further performances
- The silent film was revived in the late 1920s under the title The Night of Knowledge as a "sound disc lecture film" with illustrative music stored on gramophone records, advertised as an educational film and introduced by a lecture by social medicine doctor Curt Thomalla from Berlin.
- On July 7, 1973, the film was broadcast on the third program of the North German Radio NDR with music based on the original motifs by Ernst Riege and the correct frame rate.
- On November 2nd, 2016 the film was shown at the 54th Viennale, where Florian Reithner accompanied him on the piano.
- In 2016, the composer Johannes Kalitzke wrote a new piece of music to accompany Schatten on behalf of ZDF / Arte , with which the film, restored and viraged , was released on DVD in Edition Arte.
- The culture channel Arte broadcast the film in the night from Sunday to Monday 27/28. November 2016 in a restored, viraged and musically illustrated version. Kalitzke's music was performed by the Stuttgart ensemble ascolta .
Reviews
Lotte H. Eisner wrote about the film in her book "The Demonic Canvas":
“The ambiguity of the shadows has a Freudian sense in this film: the little pocket-player makes the shadows of the actors disappear and thus opens the floodgates of all their most secret desires. That phantasmagoria becomes heavy with meaning: the shadows take the place of the living, who during the drama become lifeless spectators of their own fate. "
“Robison visibly chose the tight-fitting costume of the Merveilleuses and Incroyables in order to intensify the erotic atmosphere of the film. Thanks to an almost animal-like vitality, the characters in his film are far removed from the abstract conventions that Expressionism has imposed. "
“An abysmal self-portrait of the film medium, which plays virtuously with eroticism, but also with psychoanalysis. Successful in all aspects of film technology and design. "
"This film, made by the American Robison, who grew up in Germany, masterfully shows the dramatic use of light, shadow and mirrors developed to perfection in romantic and expressionist German silent films."
literature
- Gerald Bär: The motif of the doppelganger as a split fantasy in literature and in German silent film (= international research on general and comparative literary studies. Volume 84). Rodopi Verlag, 2005, ISBN 90-420-1874-7 , pp. 584-586.
- Peter Buchka: The dark side. ARs "Schatten" 1923. In: German Moments. A sequence of images for a typology of the film. (= Off-Texts. Of the Munich Film Museum. Volume 1). Belleville, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-923646-49-6 .
- Lotte Eisner : The demonic canvas. Revised, ext. and authorized reprint. ed. by Hilmar Hoffmann and Walter Schobert . Municipal cinema in Frankfurt am Main, August 1976.
- Manuel Föhl: Schatten is finally getting its publication in Germany. In: Retro-Filmmagazin 35 mm , June 16, 2016.
- Heinrich Fraenkel : Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film . Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Kindler, Munich 1956, p. 132.
- Klaus Lipper: Shadows. A hallucination at night. In: Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. 2nd Edition. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89487-009-5 , p. 89 f.
- Hans Helmut Prinzler : Light and Shadow. The great silent and sound films of the Weimar Republic . German Kinemathek. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0588-5 .
- Marco Spiess: Shadow - A nocturnal hallucination. at: molodezhnaja. 18th November 2016.
- Klaus Völker : Fritz Kortner: "Jew and rebel against the privileged conventional". Hentrich, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-938485-31-0 , p. 110.
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors . Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956, pp. 566, 577.
Audio documents
- Suggestion. Valse Boston (M: Ernst Riege) Marek Weber with his artist band from Esplanade Berlin. Parlophone P.1101-II (Matr. 2-2691), attach. Sep 10, 1920
- Suggestion. Valse Boston (M: Ernst Riege) Vox Dance Orchestra. Vox 1055-A (Mat. 302-B) (K1921 / 22)
Web links
- Shadows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shadow at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb / Release Info
- ↑ According to user 'Titorelli (Silent Film Chancellor)' from 03/31/2014 09:55 at How many original compositions are there? Was Riege's music an author's illustration, ie a combination of original compositions by Riege and “existing foreign works”: “There are also many films, such as" Nosferatu "(Hans Erdmann) or" Herr Tartüff "(Giuseppe Becce), which only Some of them were composed through - important acts, for example - and the rest were put together in the usual potpourri manner from existing third-party works. The whole conglomerate of composition and arrangement is called "author's illustration". ”A composition by Rieges, a 'Valse Boston for piano' published by Bote & Bock in Berlin in 1919, which also appeared on gramophone records, was entitled“ Suggestion ”, cf. Hofmeister's monthly reports 1922, p. 45.
- ↑ cf. Sentences like “A film for more mature people”, “stirring drama of human passions and desires”, “only for adults” on the movie poster for the Rössle-Lichtspiele in Eppingen and the movie poster for the Capitol-Lichtspiele
- ↑ HPK at Filmtips In: Die Zeit . No. 28/1973: "On television:" Schatten "(Germany 1923) by Arthur Robinson (North III July 7th) [...] The film was copied to silent film speed and underlaid with music based on the original motifs by Ernst Riege."
- ↑ "The Viennale is Austria's largest international film event ." Viennale.at Viennale.at
- ↑ Hans Helmut Prinzler: Schatten (1923), review accessed on January 19, 2017.
- ↑ Shadow-A nocturnal hallucination , Arte Mediathek ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2017 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.
- ↑ shadow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Film tips in: Die Zeit . No. 28. 1973.
- ^ Vox discography
