Réalisation:
Leo MittlerPhotographie:
Friedl Behn-GrundActeurs·trices:
Lissy Arna, Sig Arno, Fritz Genschow, Margarete Kupfer, Paul Rehkopf, Jean Toulout, Friedrich GnaßRésumés(1)
A beggar, a prostitute and an unemployed man get caught up in lethal conflicts over a pearl necklace, which could mean their escape from poverty. Some jewellery lands right next to his feet. At long last, he, and the poor young boy lodging with him, have an opportunity to live a better life. At a little celebration party at the dive, they are drawn into in a vicious circle of dealers and prostitutes, in which many a worker is trapped – along with the prostitute who learns of the beggar's suddenly gained wealth.
This barely known masterpiece of proletarian cinema, made by Leo Mittler in 1929, is outstanding mainly due to Friedl Behn-Grund's fantastic camera work and brilliant montage sequences. Prometheus promoted these young talents, who learned a quite a lot from their Russian colleagues at Mezhrabpom-Film. Social issues and a new cinematic language were combined to create films with mass appeal. Hitherto, only a fragment of the film was known to exist, but recently the missing act was discovered. Now this stylistically sound film, which penetrates deep into the underworld and its seemingly inescapable poverty, can be seen in full length again.
(Berlinale)
Acteurs·trices
Lissy Arna
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
Der Zinker (1931)
Les Monts en flammes (1931)
Sig Arno
Meilleurs films :
Die vom Rummelplatz (1930)
Le Dictateur (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Fritz Genschow
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
Titanic (1943)
Margarete Kupfer
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
Die vom Rummelplatz (1930)
La Femme sur la Lune (1929)
Le Congrès s'amuse (1931)
Paul Rehkopf
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
Die vom Rummelplatz (1930)
M le maudit (1931)
Varieté (1925)
Jean Toulout
France
Meilleurs films :
Le Pays d'où je viens (1956)
Madame de... (1953)
La Dixième Symphonie (1918)
Friedrich Gnaß
Empire allemand
Meilleurs films :
M le maudit (1931)
La Tragédie de la mine (1931)
L'Histoire du petit Muck (1953)