Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 562 | AVC @ 1800 Kbps | 132 min | 2.07 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps (2Tracks) | Subs: English, French, (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Silent, Drama | Germany
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 562 | AVC @ 1800 Kbps | 132 min | 2.07 Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps (2Tracks) | Subs: English, French, (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Silent, Drama | Germany
Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act. They want to ascend, but how? A way out beckons when a theatrical agent named Nevin enters Else’s life. He is played by Hubert von Meyerinck as a slick and oily villain, who oozes refinement; his experience behind bars is waved away with a silk scarf. He is cunning to the point of perfidiousness, but is not completely unsympathetic. He also embodies a new type - the scrounger.
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Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Writer: Luise Heilborn-Körbitz, Gerhard Lamprecht
Actors: Lissy Arna, Gerhard Dammann, Mathias Wieman, Paul Heidemann
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 132 min
Nevin represents not the straight and narrow, but the crooked path. In this film it is portrayed as an understandable alternative, even though it doesn't pay in the long run. At the music hall, lurking haughtily in his cutaway, he watches the début of the stage act of Else, Hans, and Max. The trio perform an equestrian number, the men in a horse costume, one as the head, one as the hind end, she the trainer in a tutu. Nevin has eyes only for Else. He wants to go to bed with her. First he gets rid of his old girlfriend.
The camera captures the stage number, looking into the orchestra pit from above, shows the stagehands enjoying themselves, and travels along the stamping feet of the customers in the front row, male trousers and female calves in silk stockings. Now sex appears. Else can escape the first attempt at violation. But she can only ascend by descending. She cannot escape Nevin’s clutches. A coincidence brings them together again. Lace underwear is laid out; blouse, panties, and hose are prettily draped on a line. The camera tracks slowly past this string of sexual promise and male imaginations of desire. What is happening outside the frame is not actually shown, but the staging could not be much more openly lascivious.
Else eventually ends up as a whore. At first she hires herself out as a bar girl in a club. There the chatting-up is like a military drill. Finally she walks the streets, and degenerates. From her room the camera's gaze goes out through the window, capturing a gas meter and a railway line. In such a setting Anna Karenina threw herself in front of a train, an act committed in a mixture of revenge and despair. As cultural historian Peter Gray has observed, since the 1820s the locomotive has been “a symbol for power and revenge”, a “killer in sober reality” viewed as “suitable as an engine of retribution, a social superego punishing offenses against man and the gods”.
Though Else is not caught and crushed by a locomotive, her gaze imagines her longing for a transgression of frontiers, into the realm of Eros, but not via a return to the backroom of sex for money This is not to be realized; in this vision, a redemptive death is taken into account. Male attributes have become “favourite players” in quite a different way in her life, and in her “theatre of the libido” Other whores finally carry her outdoors. She wants to see the countryside just one more time.
Now the film really does lose its social composure. Else lies in the street; her eyes look up towards the light of a streetlamp. A dissolve follows, to the sun, to trees, and to a sea of flowers. This is paradise. And this is no barren field. A cut brings us back to the lamplight, and Else. Her eyes lose their light. A party rages on nearby. The director and his colleagues, more unconsciously than consciously, act as archaeologists of feelings. And determine that in this society, no good comes of them. - Wolfgang Jacobsen (adapted from his book Zeit und Welt - Gerhard Lamprecht und seine Filme, Munich: edition text + kritik, 2013)
But then, a good 13 hours after the day had begun, we voluntarily spent two and a half further hours, locked in urban hell with Gerhard Lamprecht’s emotional assault-course of a street film, Unter der Laterne (Under the Lantern, 1928). It’s Berlin in the 1920s and good girlkultur goes bad as Lissy Arna’s sweet Else falls through social strata like Alice down a rabbit hole: a bullying father, sexual double standards, the sleaziness of show-business and a thriving sex trade are no match for her morals and her romantic dreams. It’s like Pandora’s Box with less glamour and more heart and I savoured every wounding moment. The clever score provided by a group led by Donald Sosin and a record player made great use of a drinking song that features prominently in the stunning freehand intertitles: “Drink, drink, brothers, drink.” The inescapable circular structure, an insistence on escapism through oblivion – rarely has a song so jolly sounded so terribly sad.
Pamela Hutchinson said, in her website Silent London
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Two audio streams, the soundtrack by Donald Sosin and by the Ensemble mosaik music.
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
Unter der Laterne / Under the Lantern (1928)
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