Phantom (1922 film)
- Alfred Abel: Lorenz Lubota
- Frida Richard: his mother
- Aud Egede -Nissen: Melanie, Lorenz's sister
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski: Hugo, Lorenz's brother
- Karl Etlinger: master bookbinder Strong
- Lil Dagover: Marie, whose daughter
- Grete Berger: pawnbroker Schwabe, Lorenz's aunt
- Anton Edthofer: Wigottschinski
- Ilka Gruening: " Baroness "
- Lya de Putti: Melitta, her daughter and Veronika Harlan
- Adolf Klein: Ironmonger Harlan
- Olga Engl: his wife
- Heinrich Witte: Usher
Phantom is a German film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from 1922. The film is attributed to the style of expressionism and was based on the eponymous story by Gerhart Hauptmann.
Action
Lorenz Lubota writes in retrospect the story of his life: He's Staff writer in the city, bookworm and would-be poet. One day on the way to work, he is approached by a horse-drawn carriage. He is the beauty of the driver, the daughter Veronika rich ironmonger Harlan, beguiles and chases her on a search for such a phantom. Lubota slides off into its own surreal dream world. His thoughts just a matter of getting closer to Veronika turn, he speaks even before their parents and makes a proposal of marriage. Rejected and humiliated neglected Lubota his life and loses his job.
By chance he meets Melitta know that Veronika looks confusingly similar. He consoles himself with her, which brings him out of his money and for which he also lends money at his aunt's, the pawnbroker Schwabe to get under the false pretext soon royalties for his poem publications. When his aunt he threatens to report his fraud to the police, Lubota gets involved in the seedy Wigottschinski. At night they break into the pawnbroker to steal their money from the vault. As they are surprised by her Wigottschinski kill them.
Lubota comes as accomplice in jail. On his release the bookbinder 's daughter Marie waits for Lubota. She has always loved him and secretly takes now its at.
Background
The world premiere of Phantom took the occasion of the 60th birthday of Gerhart Hauptmann on November 13, 1922 held in Berlin Ufa - Palast am Zoo. The buildings of the film come from Hermann Warm and Erich Czerwonski.
The author of the literary work can be seen even briefly at the beginning of the film.
Reviews
For Béla Balázs is this movie ... the ingenious attempt ... to show the world the color of a temperament, in the light of a feeling: objectified poetry.
Fred Gehler says Lorenz Lubotas story is not only the experience of amour fou and its consequences, it also reflects the situation of the German petty bourgeois immediately after the war and the November Revolution - his troubled relationship reality, his vacillation, his perplexity.