The Shards ( German: Scherben ) is a German silent film directed by Lupu Pieck , filmed in 1921 [1] .
| Shards | |
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| Scherben | |
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| Genre | Drama |
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| Author script | |
| In the main cast | Werner Kraus Paul Otto |
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| A country | |
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| Year | 1921 |
| IMDb | |
Creation
In working on his films, Karl Mayer found in Lupu Peak a director equal in talent to him. However, an interesting fact is that Lupu Peak tried his best to avoid words in his films. At the end of 1926, he defined his art as follows:
"The essence interests me more than the form. Each plan should be inspired by thought. But I hate films with a given idea ... Life is an inexhaustible source by which we must invariably nourish inspiration. I am a realist. We should show life in all without hesitation . its forms, unadorned Do not idealism , it is not necessary and pessimism . In the life of joy and sorrow, the tragic and the comic are intertwined - give is this more precisely, however, is not inspired by the example of the great. Chaplin's film should be completely clear from the words no tit?. s Enough photogeny I am a supporter of the unity of time and unity of place, even This makes the film a holistic, clear, colorful, but admit that these rules are not required for all I wrote the script, where the only performers -.... hands and things ... " [ 2]
He also wrote:
"In my films, I try not to use expressionistic delusions and draw inspiration from the everyday sensations of life. Of course, the technique interests me to some extent, as well as the scenery, but the drama of the disadvantaged excites me the most. I think that in our art it should mainly be shown everyday silence, which hides the wretchedness of everyday behavior dictated exclusively by habits. In any case, no captions, no words, even just written " [3]
Story
An inspector arrives in the province who falls in love with a lineman's daughter. Soon, their mother finds them in bed, who goes to church at night and freezes. The daughter of the lineman asks the auditor to take her with him to the city, but receives a gross refusal. She tells everything to her father, and he, in a fit of anger, kills the examiner. At that moment, the only words in the film appear: “I am a killer!” ... [4]
Notes
- ↑ "Shards" on the IMDb website .
- ↑ This quote is provided in the preparatory notes by J. Sadul and, undoubtedly, is taken from the magazine "Cine-Magazine"
- ↑ In: Paoletta R. Storia del cinema muto. Napoli, 1956
- ↑ Krakauer 3. The psychological history of German cinema, p. 103 (in the French original work by J. Sadul, the content of the film is given according to the book: Riess C. Das gab's nur einmal. Hambourg, 1956. There is no doubt the influence of Krakauer, which is confirmed by numerous coincidences. However, in the book of Krakauer the retelling is much more complete and gives more idea of the film)
Links
- Sadul Georges. The general history of cinema. T. 4 (First half-hour): Europe after the First World War. Per. from Fr.- M .: Art, 1982. - pp. 465-470