Striking Weather (1923)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Breaking weather |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Grune |
| script | Julius Urgiß and Max Jungk based on a template by Stefan Großmann |
| production | Karl Grune for Stern-Film GmbH (Berlin) |
| music | Georg Graewe |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann |
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Schlagende Wetter is a naturalistic silent film by the director Karl Grune, who became famous through the subsequent classic Die Strasse . He tells a triangle story against the background of a precise study of the mine environment .
action
Marie is chased out of the house by her father when he learns that his daughter is expecting an illegitimate child from the windy seducer George. Alone she gives birth to the child and is found by the miner Thomas and taken in with the child. When he marries her, happiness seems perfect, but George finds out about the marriage and ensnares Marie again. When George harassed her at home and even wanted his son back, Thomas looked for a confrontation in the mine tunnel. George is killed in an explosion and Thomas is buried with Marie, who is looking for him underground. After a few days, nobody believes that they will be rescued alive. Only Thomas' parents do not give up hope and his father continues to search with some buddies underground. Eventually he finds them both alive and can bring them back to his wife and mother.
criticism
The critics at the time judged the film benevolently and praised the convincing portrayal of the fates and the authenticity of the depicted milieu. Foreign film critics also praised the film, especially in Great Britain, where the aspect of the worker portrait was particularly popular. The occupation of the Ruhr at the time also increased attention for the film.
background
- The film was shot in the autumn of 1922 in the studio and outdoor facilities of the Eiko studio in Berlin-Marienfelde . It was written before the occupation of the Ruhr, but its performance was seen as a "declaration of solidarity" for the strikers.
- “For the jealous drama in the miners 'milieu, director Karl Grune and architect Karl Görge had a labyrinthine mine built, which the journal Film-Kurier described with fascination in 1922:' Half the glass house has been turned into a jumble of rails, the iron pit dogs are fully loaded there, and miners run into the narrow, low tunnels ... The seams flow from the side. '” Ernő Metzner was responsible for the costumes .
- Striking weather premiered on February 15, 1923 in Berlin's Ufa Theater on Kurfürstendamm.
- The film was reconstructed by the Deutsche Kinemathek from a German and an Italian copy in a length of 67 minutes and supplemented with hand-colored effects and atmospheric single-color viraged sequences that underline the atmospheric representation. In 2005, a 59-minute version was restored.
- The film was re-performed with new music by Karl Gräwe by the conductor Titus Engel and the Cologne Radio Orchestra (conductor: Winfried Fechner) in 2010 as part of the annual RUHR.2010 program.
literature
- Fred Gehler Striking weather . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 84 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
Web links
- Green Was My Valley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Booklet accompanying the performance at the 55th Berlinale 2005 (pdf)
- Brigitte Ulitschka: Silent film drama "Schlagende Wetter" underground
Individual evidence
- ↑ Booklet accompanying the performance at the 55th Berlinale 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brigitte Ulitschka: Silent film drama "Schlagende Wetter" underground . Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ↑ Kristina Jaspers: Moving Spaces. Production Design + Film ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Exhibition at the Filmmuseum Berlin. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ↑ Jens-Uwe Völmecke: “Extraschicht” for the WDR radio orchestra - the silent film music for Karl Green's drama “Schlagende Wetter” . New music newspaper online. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
