Tartüff (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Tartüff |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau |
| script | Carl Mayer |
| production | Erich Pommer |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
| camera | Karl friend |
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Tartuffe is a German silent film - drama from director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from 1925. It is based on the comedy of Tartuffe or The Cheat (Original title: Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur ) from the year 1664 by Molière , but settled in the then present.
action
A wealthy old man is cherished and cared for by his housekeeper. Since the latter is after his fortune, she persistently tries to convince him to consider her in the will instead of his grandson. She succeeds in doing this through an intrigue. In order to get the inheritance, she then begins to slowly poison the old man.
The grandson becomes suspicious, but cannot get to his grandfather to warn him. Now it turns out that his career choice as an actor is an advantage. He disguises himself as the operator of a traveling cinema and drives up in front of his grandfather's house. At first the housekeeper wants to get rid of him, but then his charm persuades her to let him perform a film in the house. The film will be shown Tartüff , a film whose story is about a hypocrite and the all too frivolous belief in him. The hypocrite in the film is exposed, and the same happens after the performance of the housekeeper: She is thrown out and grandfather and grandchildren are in each other's arms. According to the film, hypocrites should therefore also be called Tartüff.
background
The term Tartüff was created by Molière. It describes a pious person who abuses their piety to gain advantage.
The initial situation - a rich father casts off his son because of his passion for films - is an autobiographical detail from Murnau's life. The film, the title of which was originally supposed to be Mr. Tartüff , is only available in the American distribution version; the original German version is no longer available.
Reviews
"The superbly staged, historically important silent film classic has a virtuoso balance between comedy, crime thriller and costume film," said the film service . Tartüff also called Cinema a “silent film classic”, which was “not [von Murnau's] most important work, but a nice little work with humor and an almost ironic use of contemporary stylistic devices”.
Thomas Groh from filmzentrale.com wrote that “ Tartüff is simply a still functioning, aesthetically beautiful and last but not least, quite humorous contribution from the silent film era”. In his review of the DVD edition, Carsten Henkelmann said that the film “unfortunately seems a little old-fashioned” today, which is probably also due to the fact that “[...] similar stories have already been told in countless other films”. However, there are "small details that make the film a little interesting when you consider the time it was made". This included the partly “really successful camera settings”, but especially “the pretty appropriate use of the music”.
literature
- Molière : Tartuffe or the deceiver (original title: Le Tartuffe ). In the other: three comedies . German by Hans Weigel . Diogenes, Zurich 1997, 179 pages, ISBN 3-257-20201-6 .
- Christiane Mückenberger Tartüff . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, pp. 123 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5 .
Web links
- Tartüff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tartüff at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tartüff. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See filmzentrale.com
- ↑ See senseofview.de