Film non identificato n. 7 / Unidentified film #7
[LIEBESTRAGÖDIE] (titolo assegnato/assigned title) [Tragedia dell’amore/Love Tragedy] (DE?, ca 1923?) (fragment) dir: ? cast: ? prod: ? copy: DCP, 8'30", col. (from 35 mm pos. nitr., 176 m, 18 fps, tinted & toned); titles: GER. source: DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (Archive no. DFF Nr. 20.028).
Edge code: AGFA with flat-topped A, extending over half a frame (pre-1925). No company markings on film edges or in titles. Digital duplication 2015 at ARRI in shorts programme “Frühe Farbfilme”, from a tinted & toned nitrate print of unknown provenance; no archival arrival date recorded.
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (GCM), Pordenone: Sine Nomine – Film da identificare / Unseen and Unidentified
Grand piano: Daan van den Hurk
Viewed with English / Italian e-subtitles at Teatro Verdi, 9 Oct 2024
Anke Mebold (GCM Catalogue 2024): " This “Weimar Street Film”-style fragment looks like a Berlin based film industry production. It shows interesting dynamics regarding power and abuse, family and workplace environment, and gender roles and stereotypes. The central characters are a working-class mother, Frau Hart, employed in the packing department of a factory. She has two children, a girl around 5 years old and a happy-go-lucky wayward daughter, Magda, probably in her late teens, who is in charge of the household while her mother is at work. "
" Magda is an avid reader of sentimental novels, and is deeply in love with Paul, whom she seems to have recently met. He belongs to a family of better financial standing and higher social class. Magda comes home late at night, after enjoying cake and sweet wine at Paul’s place. A man of somewhat ominous demeanor, perhaps the husband of Mrs. Hart or her eldest son, lives in the Hart household and works in the same factory. To curb Magda’s excessive evening excursions and keep her occupied, he and mother Hart decide to get Magda employment at the factory, and approach the factory owner about it. Meanwhile Paul is torn between his liaison with Magda and his affiliation with a woman from his own class, whose father is expecting to meet him. " – Anke Mebold
AA: Scenes from the éducation sentimentale of Magda Hart, a teenage daughter of a working-class family, in a budding love affair with Paul, a son of a more upscale family, expected to marry comme il faut. Romantic illusions on a crash course with social reality. Moments of urban solitude.
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