World Fire (1920)

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Movie
Original title Weltbrand (Christian Wahnschaffe, 1st part)
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1920
length 6 acts, 2,083 meters, 77 minutes
Rod
Director Urban Gad
script Hans Behrendt ,
Bobby E. Lüthge
production Terra film
music Giuseppe Becce
camera Max Lutze
occupation

also

Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent film Christian Wahnschaffe , which Urban Gad made in Berlin in 1920/21 for Terra Film , which was founded at the end of 1919 . The title of the second part is Escape from the Golden Dungeon  (1921). The script by Hans Behrendt and Bobby E. Lüthge was based on the two-volume novel Christian Wahnschaffe by Jakob Wassermann , published by S. Fischer in 1919 . The title role played Conrad Veidt , his opponent was Fritz Kortner . The female lead was given to the Norwegian dancer and actress Lillebil Ibsen.

action

Christian Wahnschaffe is the son of a wealthy manufacturer, but his mindset is ideal. When the first revolution came in 1905 in Russia, where wealth and poverty were irreconcilable, he met the anarchist Iwan Becker. He takes Christian to his rebellious friends and can soon inspire him for his ideas. However, the dancer Eva Sorel, who also frequented anarchist circles and who has been entrusted with important secret papers, betrays the movement without wanting to, so that the uprising is put down right from the start.

background

The film was produced by Terra-Film AG Berlin. Terra Filmverleih GmbH took over the first rental. Berlin, the film buildings were built by Robert A. Dietrich . Max Lutze was in front of the camera .

World fire was before the test center on October 26, 1920 and happened under test no. B 00644.

For the first screening on November 6th, the Terra-Filmgesellschaft hosted a “film social evening” in the noble Grand Hotel Esplanade on Potsdamer Platz , in which “intellectual Berlin, the press, the film and finance world” and “even politics” were represented. Karl Muck conducted the cinema music compiled by Giuseppe Becce ; Members of the State Opera Orchestra played. Alexander Schirmann led the orchestra at the regular screenings in the cinema .

Weltbrand premiered on November 12, 1920 in Berlin in the Schauburg cinema.

The Murnau Foundation specifies the length of the film as 2,083 meters (77 minutes). The copy (BSP 25447-4) preserved in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv is 1,074 meters long.

reception

The film was discussed in: Der Kinematograph , No. 722, from November 14, 1920 and in the Lichtbild-Bühne , No. 46, from November 13, 1920. In the Illustrated Film Week No. 46/47, year 8, 1920 contains a report about the film, which highlights the two main actors Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner.

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Daniela Eisenstein, Dirk Niefanger, Gunnar Och (Eds.): Jakob Wassermann. German, Jew, writer. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0158-0 .
  • Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film. Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Kindler, Munich 1956, p. 403.
  • Elisabeth Jütten: Discourses about justice in the work of Jakob Wassermann. (= Volume 66 of Conditio Judaica). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-093724-4 .
  • Jakob Wassermann: Christian Wahnschaffe. Novel in two volumes. Zenodotus Collection. Zenodot Publishing House, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86640-153-2 .
  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Lichtbild-Bühne, No. 46, November 13, 1920: "The social problems that give Wassermann's novel its strong ethical content form the background of the film plot."
  2. ↑ Short Biographies / filmography of Lillebil Ibsen on the English Wikipedia, see Lillebil Ibsen
  3. ↑ See Lichtbild-Bühne, No. 46, of November 13, 1920.
  4. ↑ Cf. Critique in the Lichtbild-Bühne, No. 46, November 13, 1920: “Then the light goes out. It becomes deathly quiet. And as if from the spheres of another world, Beethoven's Egmont Overture floods over our hearts and minds; voiced by members of the State Opera Orchestra, conducted by General Music Director Dr. Karl Muck. “Biret, t p. 138 on B 644 - VII 429
  5. ↑ See Birett, p. 143 on B 644 - VI 505
  6. ↑ Opened in 1919, belonged to the Munich Emelka Group, cf. allekinos.com [1]
  7. ↑ See bundesarchiv.de [2]
  8. ↑ to be found at filmportal.de [3]
  9. ↑ Read more at filmportal.de [4]