Christian Wahnschaffe, Teil 1: Weltbrand | Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 1: ...
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1920
by: Urban Gad
Lillebil Christensen, Leopold von Ledebur
Christian Wahnschaffe, Teil 1: Weltbrand | Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 1: ...
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1920
by: Urban Gad
Conrad Veidt (links | left), Fritz Kortner (Mitte | middle)
Christian Wahnschaffe, Teil 1: Weltbrand | Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 1: ...
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1920
by: Urban Gad
Conrad Veidt, Helga Molander
Christian Wahnschaffe, Teil 1: Weltbrand | Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 1: ...
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1920
by: Urban Gad
Conrad Veidt, Fritz Kortner
At the salon of his lover, Paris dancer Eva Sorel, Christian Wahnschaffe, the spoiled son of an industrialist, meets Iwan Becker, a leader in the Russian Nihilist movement. Impressed by Becker’s concern for society’s weak and poor, Christian develops sympathies for the movement’s ideals. When Eva begins a relationship with a powerful Russian prince, she poses a danger to Becker, who has entrusted her with his secret plans for a revolution for safekeeping. And, indeed, they end up in St Petersburg, where Christian and Iwan try in vain to gain possession of them. It is then easy for the Prince to put down the 1905 revolution … Weltbrand is a wide-ranging panorama of society, unfolding along several parallel plot lines against a backdrop of luxury and misery. From its use of historical subject matter, to its gala premiere attended by dignitaries from industry and politics at the Hotel Esplanade, the two-part star-studded film version of the book anticipated later media storms, making Christian Wahnschaffe seem like a Weimar-era forerunner of modern-day event television.
by
Urban Gad
Germany 1920
German intertitles
80’ · 2K DCP
Reconstructed Digital Version 2017/18
Conrad VeidtLillebil ChristensenHermann VallentinHugo FlinkFritz KortnerErnst MatrayTheodor LoosHelga MolanderLeopold von LedeburFrida RichardFranz SuttonJosef Peterhans
Terra-Film AG
DCP: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden