Skull rider
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Skull rider |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | 1,552 meters minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Otto Lins-Morstadt |
| script | Otto Lins-Morstadt, August von Mackensen |
| camera | Eugen Hamm (black and white) |
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Totenkopfreiter is a 1917 silent film by the Berlin Mercedes Film Society . The first screening of the film took place on August 25, 1918 in the Danzig sports hall.
description
The lost film took place in the Napoleonic period from 1806 to 1814 and was about the so-called "skull hussars" of the 1st and 2nd Leibhusarenregiment in Danzig (Langfuhr). Alternative film titles were The History of the Leibhusaren and The Leibhusaren and their History .
The film, made under the patronage of August von Mackensen , was not well received after its showing in 1918, and even after it was shown again in 1920 in Munich, it did not receive particularly favorable reviews. In Film-Kurier No. 57 of March 7, 1920 to read:
“So far, such a low work has neither been produced nor shown in Munich. Not the slightest whiff of an artistic endeavor, however minute, could be felt. The crude tendency of the film to freshen up the somewhat battered militarism can only be addressed as a clumsy maneuver with these inadequate attempts. When I read the list of temperamental actors, I thought I had the electoral roll of the former royal Prussian mansion in front of me: Excellencies , major generals , members of the senior government and other bigwigs . "
Age ratings
The Berlin police classed the film as "suitable for minors". The Reich film censorship in Munich issued a "youth ban" on April 27, 1922, but lifted it on August 14, 1924.
Web links
- Totenkopfreiter at filmportal.de
- Skull Riders in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Oliver Loew : The literary Danzig 1793 to 1945: Building blocks for a local cultural history , Peter Lang AG , 2009, p. 209.
- ↑ a b Totenkopfreiter (1917) , University of Cologne .
- ↑ Totenkopfreiter , KinoTV.com.
- ↑ At UFA it was done like this ...: Cinema - the great dream business (5th cont.), Der Spiegel , edition 41/1950, October 11, 1950