With LIVE-MUSIC by Maud Nelissen (Piano)
Germany 1921 | 48 mins | FORMAT 35mm, black & white | DIRECTOR Leopold Jessner | SCREENPLAY Carl Mayer | WITH Henny Porten, Fritz Kortner, Wilhelm Dieterle
An invalid postman prevents a maid receiving her lover’s letters because he desires her for himself. She eventually becomes involved with him, but then her true love suddenly re-appears unexpectedly! This expressionist chamber piece by screenwriter Carl Meyer about a love triangle that ultimately ends fatally was one of the successful attempts to elevate the medium of film into an art form. Followed by:
»VANINA«
Germany 1921 | 69 mins | FORMAT DCP, tinted and black & white | DIRECTOR Arthur von Gerlach | SCREENPLAY Carl Mayer, freely adapted from Stendhal | PRODUCTION DESIGNER Walter Reimann | WITH Paul Wegener, Asta Nielsen, Paul Hartmann, Bernhard Goetzke
The physically disabled Governor of Turin brutally suppresses an uprising. Meanwhile, his daughter falls in love with the prisoner Octavio, and wants to save him from execution. The father agrees to the marriage: but only to make his daughter a widow shortly afterwards: it is a gallows wedding. This dark and expressive film creates an atmosphere of menace that inevitably anticipates its fateful ending.
