New Year's Eve (1924 film)

New Year's Eve
Directed by	Lupu Pick
Produced by	Lupu Pick
Written by	Carl Mayer
Starring	Eugen Klöpfer; Edith Posca
Music by	Klaus Pringsheim, Sr.
Cinematography	Karl Hasselmann; Guido Seeber
Edited by	Luise Heilborn-Körbitz
Production; company	Rex-Film GmbH
Distributed by	Universum Film AG
Release date	3 January 1924;
Running time	66 minutes
Country	German
Language	Silent film

New Year's Eve (German: Sylvester: Tragödie einer Nacht) is a 1924 German silent Kammerspielfilm directed by Lupu Pick and written by Carl Mayer. It was filmed in 1923 and premiered in Berlin on 4 January 1924.[1][2] The film is known to be one of the earliest examples of a kammerspielfilm[3] and was innovative in its extensive use of "entfesselte Kamera", using tracking and gliding techniques as opposed to keeping the camera stationary.[4] Like Pick's previous films, New Year's Eve does not use intertitles.

Plot

A man is celebrating New Year's Eve with his wife and his mother, who are at odds with one another. As the evening progresses, the rivalry between the two women increases to an open hatred that eventually escalates into a big fight. The man assumes no position in favor of either woman and instead chooses to flee from the conflict.

Cast

Eugen Klöpfer as Der Mann
Edith Posca as Die Frau
Frida Richard as Die Mutter
Karl Harbacher
Julius E. Herrmann
Rudolf Blümner

External links

References

Grange, William (28 October 2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780810859678. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Scheunemann, Dietrich (1 September 2006). Expressionist Film: New Perspectives. Camden House. p. 277. ISBN 9781571133502. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Silberman, Marc (1995). German Cinema. Wayne State University Press. p. 253. ISBN 0814325602. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Thompson, Kristin (1 February 2006). Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press. p. 119. ISBN 9789053567081. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

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[1] Grange, William (28 October 2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780810859678. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

[2] Scheunemann, Dietrich (1 September 2006). Expressionist Film: New Perspectives. Camden House. p. 277. ISBN 9781571133502. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

[3] Silberman, Marc (1995). German Cinema. Wayne State University Press. p. 253. ISBN 0814325602. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

[4] Thompson, Kristin (1 February 2006). Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press. p. 119. ISBN 9789053567081. Retrieved 10 September 2012.