Stummfilmtage Bonn 2022

Veranstaltungsort:

Venue:

Arkadenhof der Universität Bonn

11.8.2022

21:00

Vom Diener zum Herrscher – Der ungekrönte König

Male and Female

USA 1919, 119 Min.

That Cecil B. DeMille has proven himself one of the foremost directors on the screen has long been recognised. It looks as if he has excelled himself with MALE AND FEMALE […]. MALE AND FEMALE is Cecil B. DeMille’s achievement any way you look at. it. True he has incorporated Barrie’s underlying thought that English life is divided by sharp contrasts – that equality does not figure in it except in moments of extremity. And when stressful events are over things are as they were in the beginning.

Master and mistress become the servants and the butler and maid preside when all are cast upon a Crusoe island in the South Seas. Remarkably thrilling is this wreck and the suspensive moments contained in the scene are intermingled with flashes of humor […].

It is a remarkable picture, this MALE AND FEMALE. The story is well told, the acting is of a superior order despite the fact that most of the players do not suggest Britishers, and it is produced with a lavish disregard of expense. It is rich in details and atmosphere and realistic strokes and there is a story interest that keeps one fascinated.

Laurence Reid, Motion Picture News, December 6, 1919

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Regie

Directed by

Cecil B. DeMille

Drehbuch

written by

Jeanie MacPherson based on the play "The Admirable Crichton" by J. M. Barrie

Kamera

Cinematography by

Alvin Wyckoff

darsteller

cast

Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Bebe Daniels, Robert Cain

Produktion

Produced by

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Hollywood/CA

premiere

23.11.1919

format

DCP

farbe

color

Colour

tinted

zwischentitel

intertitles

English with German translation

Regie

Directed by

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) was a stage actor, co-founder of the later Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp. In 1912, and made his film directorial debut in 1913/14 with a small-town Hollywood western, THE SQUAW MAN. The erotic thriller THE CHEAT (1915) also brought him to international attention. A series of frivolous social and marital comedies followed in 1918-21, often starring Gloria Swanson. But he became famous for historical and monumental films, especially the Bible adaptations THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923) and THE KING OF KINGS (1927). And in the talkies, too, historical and biblical material such as or SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949) or the 1956 film version of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, which became his last film, proved most effective.

Musik

Music

Elizabeth Jane Baldry (harp)

Die mehrfach preisgekrönte Harfenistin, Komponistin und Filmemacherin Elizabeth-Jane Baldry begleitet seit über fünfzehn Jahren Stummfilme in Großbritannien, Europa und Amerika. Ihre Kompositionen waren auf ITV und der BBC zu hören, sowie in Film-, Radio- und Fernsehproduktionen in Irland, Japan, Dänemark und Kanada. Ihre Orchesterpartitur für den Spielfilm "Sir Lanval" wurde mit einem Media Innovation Award ausgezeichnet. Sie verfilmt auch britische Märchen und ist in der glücklichen Lage, einen magischen Wald im Dartmoor National Park zu besitzen, in dem sie ein Wald-Amphitheater für Open-Air-Aufführungen unter den Bäumen und Sternen errichtet.

The multi-award-winning harpist, composer and filmmaker Elizabeth-Jane Baldry created film music for harp for numerous silent films, which she presented at appearances in Great Britain, Europe and America. Her compositions have been heard in ITV and BBC, as well as in film, radio and television productions in Ireland, Japan, Denmark and Canada. Her orchestral score for the feature film "Sir Lanval" was awarded a media innovation award. She also makes films of British fairy tales and is fortunate to have a magical forest in Dartmoor National Park, where she plants trees, breeds bees and brews her own tea.

Musik

Music

Stephen Horne (piano, flute, accordion)

Stephen Horne begleitet seit zwanzig Jahren Stummfilme. Er ist ›Hauspianist‹ des Londoner National Film Theatre, spielt aber auch an allen anderen wichtigen Veranstaltungsorten in Großbritannien, wie dem Barbican Centre und der Tate Modern. Er hat Musik für DVDs, BBC-Fernsehproduktionen und Stummfilminstallationen in Museen aufgenommen. Er tritt regelmäßig international auf, seine Stummfilmbegleitungen bei den Filmfestspielen in Pordenone, Telluride und Berlin in den letzten Jahren fanden große Anerkennung. Seine Filmmusik zu A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR, die er im New Yorker Lincoln Center, der Washington National Gallery of Art und beim San Francisco Silent Film Festival aufgeführt hat, ist inzwischen als BFI-DVD erhältlich.

Stephen Horne has been accompanying silent films for 20 years. Based at London’s National Film Theatre, but playing at all the major UK venues such as the Barbican Centre and Tate Modern, he has recorded music for DVD releases, BBC TV screenings and museum installations of silent films. He regularly performs internationally and in recent years his accompaniments have met with acclaim at the Pordenone, Telluride and Berlin Film Festivals. He has performed his score for A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR at New York’s Lincoln Center, Washington’s National Gallery of Art and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. It is now available on BFI DVD, while his other work on DVD includes RW Paul: THE COLLECTED FILMS, SOUL OF YOUTH (included on TREASURES FROM AMERICAN ARCHIVES 3) and the Imperial War Museum’s forthcoming release THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. He is also a specialist in dance accompaniment and plays regularly at the London dance academies. Further information at www.stephenhorne.co.uk

Musik

Music

Elizabeth Jane Baldry (harp)

Musik

Music

Stephen Horne (piano, flute, accordion)

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