Friedrich Schiller - The Poet as a Young Man ( Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend )

Friedrich Schiller - The Poet as a Young Man (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1923 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Curt Goetz

Written By:
Curt Goetz
Max Kaufmann

Actors:
Theodor Loos ..... Friedrich Schiller
Hermann Vallentin ..... Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Isabel Heermann ..... Gräfin Franziska von Hohenheim
Max Pategg ..... Johann Kaspar Schiller, Werbeoffizier
Ilka Grüning ..... Elisabeth Dorothea, seine Frau
Robert Leffler ..... Pastor Christoph Moser
Egmont Richter ..... Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Berta Monnard ..... Seine Frau
Heilo Böhlen ..... Ludwig, deren Sohn
Rudolf Klein-Rhoden ..... Der Amtmann von Blaubeuren
Hans Carl Mueller ..... Kapf, Freund Schillers
Erich Walter ..... Scharffenstein, Schillers Freund
Martin Gien ..... Petersen, Freund Schillers
Walter Kassing ..... Hoven, Freund Schillers
Kitty Aschenbach ..... Luise Bischerin, Hauptmannswitwe

Synopsis:

After 16 years' experience on stage, the actor and playwright Curt Goetz (1888-1960) made his debut as a film director and producer with the silent movie Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923). Writing razor sharp dialogue was his profession; acting comic parts in the theatre - without having to renounce speech - was his craft. And that is why the silent cinema presented such a special artistic challenge to Goetz, a task whose accomplishment was prompted by a difficult subject: the poet Friedrich Schiller's adolescence. An enthusiast of the spoken word makes a movie about the early life of a powerfully eloquent poet, but has to eschew the cadence of poetry. Under such circumstances, the artistic potential of a film director must prove itself.

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters. Curt Goetz presumes that these facets of the artist's life are the source of all anger and distress. It is the same affection with which the lead actors in Schiller's debut "The Robbers" confronted the audience at the 1782 Mannheim premiere. The audience acclaimed the play, but in his homeland the young Schiller was banned from writing and was forced to flee. The director Curt Goetz allows the actors to perform almost without pathos, which turns out to be a suitable cinematic device. The leading roles of the opponents are taken by Theodor Loos (Friedrich Schiller) and Hermann Vallentin (Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg). The intertitles and Schiller's occasionally colourful behaviour leave no doubt about his Swabian origins. Such characterisation is sometimes achieved by the director's habit of using puns in the intertitles, the kind of jokes audiences enjoyed in subsequent talkies such as the comedies Napoleon ist an allem schuld, Das Haus in Montevideo, or Hokuspokus.

Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend / The Poet as a Young Man - Germany 1923 - Directed by: Curt Goetz - Written by: Curt Goetz, Max Kaufmann - Photographed by: Otto Tober, Hans Scholz - Cast: Theodor Loos, Hermann Vallentin, Isabel Heermann, Egmont Richter, Paul Bildt, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Ilka Grüning, Max Kaufmann, Kitty Aschenbach - Produced by: Götz Film Co., Berlin - Premiere: March 3, 1923 (Stuttgart) - 2005 restoration: Filmmuseum München - Edition: Stefan Drössler, Gerhard Ullmann - Compositing: Christian Ketels, Hartmut Böhme - Sound recording: Gunther Bittmann, Ernst Schillert

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