Samson and Delilah (1922 film)
- Maria Corda: Delilah / Julia Sorel
- Franz Herterich: Abimelech / Prince Andrey Andreyevich
- Alfredo Boccolini: Samson
- Ernst Arndt: impresario
- Paul Lukas: Ettore Ricco
- Franz Hauenstein: Ebu Ezzra
- Oskar Engelmann: Lodní Kuchar
And about 400 extras
Samson and Delilah is an Austrian monumental and silent film from 1922. Directed by Alexander Korda his then wife Maria Corda plays the main role.
Action
The action takes place on two levels: a modern and biblical times.
Julia Sorel is a famous opera singer and lined up success after success. My most persistent admirers is the Grand Duke Andrei, who proves to be particularly intrusive. Your next stage stop will be La Scala in Milan, where she will give a performance in the " Delilah ". In order to embark on their part and history, leaving the celebrated artist the samples and visited an old rabbi. Who tells her about the biblical story of Samson and Delilah. Soon arise parallels their own lives to this legend.
Back in the theater, Julia Sorel showing her Diva Attitude. They denied her colleague, the young tenor Ettore Ricco, cooperation on the stage, as this is chosen to replace the originally planned, but currently prevented tenor. As this appears but then, peace seems restored. After the Scala Presentation of the Grand Duke invites the singer on a his yacht. Andrei Andreyevich but followed very own plans: he has by no means going to let Julia Sorel walk again. Is a kidnapping from the banquet, and Juliet finds herself locked in her cabin. Then the Prince sets sail with his ship in the high seas.
Andrei Andreyevich is only willing to return, when the artist has heard him. Neither Julia nor Andreyevich have noted, however, that the Julia brusquely rejected colleague Ettore has also sneaked on board. He also knows the biblical legend of Samson and Delilah only too well and turns to her rescue an old list ( with an alleged anarchists in the center of the action ), which even then had worked. All participants will be issued by the young man a valuable lesson. Finally, even the Grand Duke orders return his yacht in the next port.
Production Notes
Samson and Delilah 1922 was rotated as a monumental film, as the first production in the not yet completely finished Rose Hill movie studios, with the intention of being able to succeed with this international material on the world market. The premiere took place in Vienna on Christmas Day 1922.
Karl Hartl had the assistant director, the Filmbauten designed Alexander Ferenczy. When Otto makers cared for the pyrotechnic effects.
The early 1920s was a brief heyday of Austrian film in which one produced several well -consuming as costly big movies around Vienna. Korda, who had in 1922 for this movie his old employer, the Sascha Film, leave, let himself in Samson and Delilah obviously of DW Griffith's epic Intolerance inspire. The work done for this movie, enormous expenditure of men and materials and their cost has been meticulously listed: 400 beards and 100 kg human hair (1500 crowns), makeup artist ( 275,000 crowns), 160 working days ( 4,400,000 crowns). Total cost: 12,333,750 crowns.
The high cost incurred including by Korda himself, who covered the shooting schedule hopeless. In order to stem spending some extent, Korda worked here with the Hungarian production company Vita movie together. After Samson and Delilah, however, could not import the approximate cost again Korda left Austria and went with his wife Maria for more film projects temporarily to Germany.
Criticism
J -s. ruled in Film-Kurier: " The positive thing about this film is not for this reason the enormous magnificent buildings that recur in numerous repetitions, but the modern images, the experience with the failure of the opera performance her first dramatic climax and then very cleverly glad tuned to a final episode leak that loses none of tension against the first images of modern conflict. Director Technically very gratifying services available: the confusion in the opera house after the assassination of the Prince Andrei, the game moments aboard the yacht " Rul ", the appearance of the mysterious " anarchists " on this ship and the resolution of the assassination suspicion - that's all with much skill has been carried out, and also the performer Maria Corda, Franz Herterich, Paul Lukaos and Ernst Arndt fully meet their role responsibilities; in the historicizing of action, however, everything remains shadowy, unsuitable - somehow human to heat and thus establish internal relations with the trial. "