Gold (1934)
Gold (1934)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5700 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (optional)
02:00:00 | Germany | Crime, Sci-Fi
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5700 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (optional)
02:00:00 | Germany | Crime, Sci-Fi
After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
Director: Karl Hartl
Cast: Hans Albers, Friedrich Kaysler, Brigitte Helm, Michael Bohnen, Ernst Karchow, Lien Deyers, Eberhard Leithoff, Rudolf Platte, Walter Steinbeck, Heinz Wemper, Hansjoachim Buttner, Erich Hausmann, Rainer Litten, Ernst Behmer, Fita Benkhoff, Rudolf Biebrach, Friedrich Ettel, Frank Gunther, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Curt Lucas, Philipp Manning, Elsa Wagner
Gold (1934)
Gold (1934)
After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk works with him on a similar project… The only German science-fiction film that gives Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) a run for its money is Karl Hartl’s Gold, made at the beginning of the National Socialist era in 1934. It stars Hans Albers, already one of Germany’s most popular box-office attractions, as an atomic research scientist who attempts to turn lead into gold through atomic fragmentation, and Brigitte Helm, one of cinema’s most enduring icons as Maria the robot in Metropolis. The spectacular laboratory sequences are directly out of James Whale (Frankenstein), and the climactic flood that destroys the lab - which cinematographer Gunther Rittau renders in a magnificent rapid-montage sequence - provides enough industrial mayhem to make the cataclysm reminiscent of the destructive finale of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, to which it bears a striking visual resemblance… Gold was Ufa’s 1934 super-production; the picture was said to have taken fifteen months to shoot. Hans Albers took the studio to court, demanding almost twice his agreed-upon salary; he did not win his case. Gold was a predictable, internationally successful, box-office hit upon its release on 29 March 1934.
Extras:
- Historical Background Slideshow: Spectacular Science Fiction in Karl Hartl’s Gold (in English)
- Original Promotional Material Slideshow (in German with English Translation)
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Gold (1934)
Gold (1934)
