Wallenstein (1925)
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| Original title | Wallenstein |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | approx. 186 (both parts) minutes |
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| Director | Rolf Randolf |
| script | Hans Behrendt |
| production | Gustav Althoff |
| music | Pasquale Perris |
| camera | Axel Graatkjaer |
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Wallenstein is a two-part German historical silent film from 1925 by Rolf Randolf with Fritz Greiner in the title role.
action
Germany at the time of the Thirty Years War .
The general Wallenstein is at the height of his power and begins to make full use of it. When Emperor Ferdinand asked for financial support, Wallenstein asked for an enormous consideration. This makes him extremely unpopular at the imperial court in Vienna. His sincere admiration for his Protestant opponent, King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, also encourages his opponents to suspect that Wallenstein is not wholeheartedly involved, especially since he hesitates for a moment when it comes to the final blow against the Swedish monarch. Nevertheless, Wallenstein has a great victory.
In the second battle, in which the King of Sweden falls, his opponents are motivated to such an extent that they inflict a serious defeat on the Catholic military leader. An imperial commission of inquiry is then sent to Prague. Finally, Wallenstein's internal opponents fell into the hands of a dangerous document that a Wallenstein confidante had once drawn up and can now be interpreted as high treason. Now the military leader is finally isolated in his own camp. His followers turned away from him, and his confidante Butler finally murdered him in 1634 in Eger in northern Bohemia.
Production notes
Wallenstein was shot in the Efa studio at the zoo in the winter of 1924/25. Each of the two parts was seven acts long. The first part of the film was called Wallenstein Macht , was 2435 meters long and, like the second part, Wallenstein's death 2237 meters , was censored on March 26, 1925. The first part was premiered on May 20, 1925 in Primus -Palace.
The buildings were designed by Robert A. Dietrich .
Reviews
“Wallenstein” (1925) was not a big hit as a film. Schiller's shadow was too great. Rolf Randolf was not up to the cinematic design of this enormous material, and Fritz Greiner, the film-Wallenstein, was not a general who was whipped by ambition, but got completely into the bourgeoisie. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A Wallenstein film could either have been a character piece with the general as the focus or a painting of times and battles. The author of the present film (Hans Behrendt) did neither, but provided illustrations of the Wallenstein history, which shows us treating the whole thing as a cultural film as the only viable option. Some love stories, some of which were taken over from Schiller and some of which were fictitious, as subplots, cannot influence this overall impression. It should therefore be said that the subject is primarily of a biographical character and only shows signs of dramatic design in the second part. From this point of view, the presentation is acceptable, the presentation is kept in a small format, the photos are unequal, but generally satisfactory. "
Web links
- Wallenstein's power in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wallenstein's death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wallenstein's power at filmportal.de
- Wallenstein's death at filmportal.de
