The Other (1930 film)
The other is an early German sound film by Robert Wiene from the year 1930.
- Fritz Kortner: Attorney Haller
- Käthe von Nagy: Amalie Frieben
- Henry George: Innkeeper Dickert
- Hermione Sterler: Haller's sister
- Ursula van Diemen: Marion
- Eduard von Winterstein: Dr. Köhler
- Oskar Sima: Rogue Green Woodpecker
- Julius Falkenstein: Secretary Bremer
- Paul Bildt: Professor Wertmann
- Otto slide: Medizinalrat Rien Hofer
- Emil Heyse: Police Commissioner
- Hans Ahrens: sergeant
Action
The film is a Dr. Jekyll - and - Mr. - Hyde story. Haller is a prosecutor who fights crime during the day and at night turns into a criminal. The other I Haller falls in love with the seedy wife Amalie Frieben, which is known in the underworld as a Red Male. Attorney Dr. Haller is Amalie's greatest enemy, but they recognize the transformed Haller's not again and persuades him to kill Haller. He can even out and breaks together with the innkeeper Dickert in his own house a. In his own home, the other I the prosecutor breaks through again and he can arrest the innkeeper. By this action his double life is recognized and Haller's split personality can be treated. Haller is faced with a life-long stay in a mental institution, but the prosecutor takes the heavy fighting on with others and be healed.
Background
The other is a remake of the silent film by Max Mack from the year 1913. Mack When Albert Bassermann played the role now Kortner Fritz took over. Both films are based on a play by Paul Lindau. The film is the first sound film of the legendary silent film director Robert Wiene. He was later also awarded with the title Attorney Haller.
The buildings of the film created Erno Metzner, the camera led Nicholas Farkas. The recordings took place in Berlin, including the Luna Park instead.
The other was premiered in Germany on 12 August 1930 Berlin Great Cinema Capitol. He also ran in Denmark, Australia and America, where he had been in New York City on 14 January 1932 as The Other One Première.
Film Music
As is common in the early days of sound film, received the other by the composer Artur Guttmann, Will Meisel and Friedrich Hollaender except the background music also two sound film hit whose lyrics - a rather briskly, the others were rather emotional - of written Hollaender and Kurt Schwabach:
- Kiss me if you love me, song and Tango ( Meisel, Guttmann and Schwabach )
- You've got a tear in his buttonhole. Tango ( TM Fr Hollaender )
They are preserved in recordings of the brand Ultraphon:
Ultraphon A 531 ( mx 10 984 ) Kiss me if you love me, Tango ( Meisel, Guttmann and Schwabach ) adTonfilm " The Other ": tango orchestra Juan Llossas, chorus vocals Walter Jurmann.
Ultraphon A 556 ( mx 15 024 ) You've got a tear in his buttonhole, Tango ( TM Fr Hollaender ) adTonfilm " The Other ": Alfred Beres with orchestra. Chorus vocals Walter Jurmann.
The latter is dealt with his witty and ironic text in the treasure berlinischer phrases. However, its roots are likely to be older than the hit.
Criticism
" A memorable moment in the beginning of the young German sound film era"
" Early sound film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' theme. A prosecutor, whose alter ego is possessed by a gangster must fight himself. It was with difficulty he escapes the lifelong admission to a hospital and finds out after a severe crisis from his split consciousness. A remarkable film acting. "
" For the director, Robert Wiene THE OTHER, means a return to his beginnings, as expressed in his remake of Max Mack's classic auteur films from the year 1913, renewed interest in psychoanalysis, the unconscious and the dark side of the human soul from the already his masterpiece THE CABINET OF DR Caligari (1920 ) had determined. At the same time marked Wiene's first sound film THE OTHER also a departure and a fresh start: The sound film appears here as the bed of the analyst, on the unconscious mind is transformed into language. Thus, THE OTHER than can attempt a dialogue between silent film and sound film and read as self-reflexive examination of the translation of images into words. "