Explosive excavator 1010
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Explosive excavator 1010 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg |
| script | Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg |
| production | Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg, Hans von Wolzüge |
| music | Walter Gronostay |
| camera |
Helmar Lerski , Arthur von Schwertführer , Herbert Körner , Hugo von Kaweczynski |
| occupation | |
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Sprengbagger 1010 (pronounced: "Sprengbagger Tausendzehn") is a 1929 German silent film by the director Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg .
action
The engineer Karl Hartmann develops a new lignite excavator . During a short vacation in his home town, he discovers a brown coal deposit and decides to use the excavator there. Director March, head of the Carolinenwerke, buys the land while Hartmann finishes manufacturing the new excavator. But there is also resistance: Hartmann's fiancée, the landlady Camilla, who sees personal happiness in danger, and Hartmann's mother, who fears the destruction of the landscape and the loss of identity. Ultimately, director March and engineer Hartmann remove all resistance so that the mining of lignite can begin. Hartmann in particular pays a high price for this: his mother dies in a fire in the local mill and he becomes estranged from his fiancée. This dies from an explosion in which a mountain slope, a supposedly safe observation point, collapses. Ultimately, the valley is cleared and the brown coal is extracted. The film ends with a look at a newly built factory where Hartmann's home village was previously.
Production notes
The film, shot from May to October 1929, premiered on November 30, 1929. It had a length of 2712 meters (about 132 minutes playing time), but was shortened by about 45 minutes shortly afterwards. There was only one copy of this shortened version of the film in the Berlin film archive of the Federal Archives , which was digitally restored by ZDF and ARTE in 2010 and was shown for the first time in over 80 years in Essen's industrial monument Zeche Zollverein in March 2011 .
The film structures were designed by Andrej Andrejew , Erich Holder was the recording manager and Hans von Wolzüge was the production manager .
music
The original score of the film music by Walter Gronostay was completely preserved and was in the estate of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . Gronostay composed the music for a classical chamber orchestra, but also experimented with the sounds of gas bottles , factory sirens and an eight-member speaking choir.
The Mainz composer Bernd Thewes adapted this score to the revised film version on behalf of ZDF and ARTE. The WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln then played the music again under the direction of Titus Engel .
Reviews
The film received mostly reviews. Below is a small selection:
“A big topic that CL Achaz-Duisberg wanted to portray in his first film: the industrialization of the country. (...) Certainly, the beginning of the film, the shots from the Leuna works, are great, and they are also superbly photographed. For the first time one sees in such unity and autonomy an enormous machine world, destined to give face and expression to a newly emerging age. But this beginning is unrelated within the whole, it is only good as a 20-minute industrial and machine film. At most, the transition to the natural world of the country from here still has compelling contrasting effects ... But the director Achaz-Duisberg has taken on a task that he was not up to. Because his insight into time problems becomes useless because of the falsity of their representation. "
“The good intentions and good will granted to Achaz, who made his first film. Technically, a lot has been achieved here, the photos of the Leuna factory, even if they are not always well edited, give an impressionistic image of this gigantic company. Unfortunately, Achaz is not satisfied with that, but rolls a plot across the screen before our horrified eyes, which one ultimately only watched to the end because its content probably only reflects the disarming naivety and infantile unworldliness of the manuscript writer and the director not a consciously tendentious attitude. But the fable itself would ultimately still be accepted, only the implementation is bad. No detail is right, neither psychologically nor actually. "
" Sprengbagger 1010 ... is the costly and non-film crank attempt by an amateur director, Carl-Ludwig Achaz, who exploits the great material that was made available to him from the factories and operating facilities of the Leuna-Werke to create a haphazardly wandering Russian copy. The aim was to show how large estates are being ousted by large-scale industry, agriculture by machines, and peasants by factory workers. Instead, one sees a romantically diluted jealousy story about the majestically pounding "Sprengbagger 1010", a Courths-Mahler apotheosis shifted into the technical, which, between randomly copied machine images, engages an actor of Heinrich George's rank for her private hobbies. The frighteningly outward accompanying music from Gronostay, overloaded with acoustic gimmicks, is hardly suitable to clarify the concept of "new cinema music" significantly. "
“The music from Gronostay. On the whole far more stimulating than the film. Much has already been there. Much is already back on yesterday's modern tracks. Since Meisel , there has been no decisive attempt to modernize the film accompaniment. After all, Gronostay can only transpose into the acoustic what the image processes allow. In the essential parts, especially where the film allows the orchestra ideas to be spun out for a longer period of time, Gronostay, who has proven himself in funk, has proven to be a creative illustrator. (...) The greatest attraction of the music lies in the instrumentation, due to the fact that Gronostay dispenses with the usual symphony mash. "
Web links
- Sprengbagger 1010 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Explosive excavator 1010 at arte.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ so in the opening credits of the film; naA ( 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. on November 25, 1929
- ↑ a b c SPRENGBAGGER 1010 - Comeback after more than 80 years in the Zeche Zollverein at nmz.de, accessed on May 16, 2011
