New Years Eve (film)
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| Original title | New Years Eve |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1924 |
| length | 66 minutes |
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| Director | Lupu pick |
| script | Carl Mayer |
| music | Klaus Pringsheim |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann (indoors), Guido Seeber (outdoors) |
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Sylvester is a German chamber fiction film by Lupu Pick from 1924. It is subtitled “Tragedy of a Night”.
action
A man celebrates New Year's Eve with his wife and mother. In the course of the evening, the rivalry between the two women escalates into open hatred, which ultimately escalates into a solid argument. However, the man does not take a position in favor of any of the women, but flees the conflict and ultimately commits suicide by hanging. At the end you find his corpse, while the New Year's hustle and bustle approaches its climax.
Remarks
Sylvester is one of the classic examples of the chamber feature film , which is characterized by a script that follows subtle emotions . Director Pick clarifies the plot and these impulses without subtitles with the addition of threatening symbols as well as the overshadowing of the event by gloomy lighting effects. At the end of the film, resignation determines what happens, with the death of the man serving as a warning to society. However, this warning is ignored by them by continuing to dance during the New Year's Eve celebrations.
Lupu Pick was one of the first German directors to use a moving camera on New Year's Eve . The film premiered shortly after New Year's Eve on January 3, 1924.
Carl Mayer's New Year's Eve manuscript appeared in print in 1924 as one of the first film scripts. The Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag in Potsdam moved it as the first of a series of film manuscripts.
literature
- Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski: RECLAMS Filmführer, S. 544, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 , Stuttgart 1987
- Fred Gehler New Years Eve . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 96 f. ISBN 3-89487-009-5