Waterloo (1929 film)
- Otto fee: Field Marshal Blücher / Frederick the Great
- Charles Willy Kayser: King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
- Charles Vanel: Napoleon Bonaparte
- Auguste Prasch - Grevenberg: Blucher woman
- Friedrich Ulmer: Gneisenau
- Georg Henrich: State Chancellor Prince Hardenberg
- Carl Graumann: Prince Metternich
- Humberstone Wright: Duke of Wellington
- Carl de Vogt: Marshal Ney
- Helmuth Renar: Talleyrand
- Vera Malinovskaja: Countess Countess
- Camilla from Hollay: her maid
- Oscar Marion: Lieutenant Reutlingen
- Betty Bird: Rieke, his bride
- Fred Immler: First Grenadier
- Franz Schwarwenka: second Grenadier
- Will Dohm: Count Lagarde
Waterloo is a German silent film from 1928. Directed by Karl Grune Otto fee plays the eponymous hero of the battle, the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
Action
The monumental, equipment and war film depicts in patriotic and national German way the course of the eponymous final battle against Napoleon, and immediately before the events played out.
For Synopsis: During the Korsenkaiser on the island of Elba in exile lives, meets after the defeat of France in Vienna Congress to reshape Europe. Amid the complicated negotiations succeed Napoleon escape to the French mainland. Marshal Ney is of France's King Louis XVIII. sent his troops to prevent a rise of Napoleon to Paris. But instead of arresting him, numerous soldiers run over to the returnees. Soon Napoleon has the power again torn in France, and Ludwig has to go to Belgian exile again.
The European leaders are not doing anything about since the bad news of Napoleon's return and have once again forged an alliance against Napoleon. The British appoint as commander in chief of the young Duke of Wellington who has to stop a further rise of Napoleon. His closest ally, the elderly, 72 -year-old Field Marshal Blücher, the send the Prussians into the field. We are each other's promise to assist one another in the struggle against Napoleon. A first meeting between the French and Prussians at the Battle of Ligny on 16 June 1815 leads a delicate defeat of Blucher, who is also wounded in the fray.
Wellington decides then to place two days later the French near the small ( in present-day Belgium lying ) Location Waterloo. But the battle is different than expected, Napoleon's troops sent to fight and foolhardy. Even Wellington almost threatens to defeat when at the last moment Marshal Forward, like Blucher name with reverence and admiration is popularly known, with his soldiers in the hilly landscape emerges and therefore the alliance helps to victory.
Production Notes
The film was produced on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Munich-based production company Emelka (founded on 1 January 1919). Waterloo was conceived as a gigantic battles and history painting and has ten files on 3505 meters in length as well ( for silent film standards) enormous proportions. The film can be viewed in some way as a continuation of the previously set by the same director in film scene in Queen Luise.
The film was shot at Castle Schleißheim in the Isar valley and in the studio of Munich - Geiselgasteig. The film happened on December 29, 1928, the film censorship and premiered on January 11, 1929 in Berlin two Erstaufführungstheatern.
In a brief scene Blücher performer emerges fee in his signature role as Frederick the Great - both emanation and Gemahnung the heritage of Prussia - thereby giving his marshal forward another, a urpreußische legitimacy. CineGraph was in charge of his biography even that " Fridericus trains [ ... ] Moreover, the role played by Blücher fee in Grunes WATERLOO (1928 ) ' Wear.
As in his two-part Queen Luise- film director picked Grune this time the Frenchman Charles Vanel for the role of the Emperor Napoleon. Blücher's main ally occupied in the defeat of the French Emperor Grune also for a national key: The Duke of Wellington was represented by the largely unknown British Humberstone Wright.
The Filmbauten come from Ludwig Reiber, the technical management took over his brother Willy Reiber.
Reviews
The film received - depending on time and political point of view - very different reviews.
Oskar Kalbus ' Becoming German cinema wrote in the early phase of the Third Reich: Karl Grune's "Waterloo" (1929 ) is a happy mixture of fact and fiction: Napoleon between Elba and St. Helena, the Congress of Vienna, the great battle, by the Europe was freed for the second time of Napoleon. The focus this time Blucher, played by Otto fee, historically completely real, even down to the smallest features of the Marshal Forward.
From the perspective of Polish nationalists Jerzy Toeplitz - Napoleon was for the Poles at the beginning of the 19th century, the hopefuls with regard to the recovery of state sovereignty - the assessment of Waterloo presented as expected completely different dar. In his history of the film it says in communist ideological terminology: "So took over as Karl Grune, who had in 1923 the interesting expressionist film the street created the director to two historical films with revanchist tendencies: Queen Louise (1927) and Waterloo ( 1929), whose hero Marshal Blucher is. "
In the CineGraph biography Karl Grune both his Queen Louise - parter as well as his Waterloo staging as two were called " luxurious historical films ", the latter " is oriented to Abel Gance's NAPOLEON and projected some scenes on a three-part screen."