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Película expresionista, con guión de Carl Mayer, y protagonizada por Asta Nielsen y Paul Wegener. Así que a pinchar todos los fans silentes. La calidad pésima, como no podía ser menos con la rareza que es. No tiene audio.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013728/
Arthur von Gerlach, 1922
Asta Nielsen - Vanina
Paul Wegener - Gobernador de Turín
Paul Hartmann - Octavio
Info en inglés en KG extraida del libro "Siegfried Kracauer - From Caligary to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947)"
VANINA, also released in 1922, dwelt upon the psychological causes and effects of tyranny. Carl Mayer, who fashioned the script after Stendhal's story Vanina Vanini, termed the film a "ballad." The Germans had then a penchant for ballads and legends, which, because of their unreal character, were as timely as the expressionist films proper. This predilection for an imagined world was early recognized and praised as a German feature. "The strength of the German film lies in the fantastic drama," the program-magazine of the Ufa theaters contended in 1921, lest its readers worry about the superiority of the Americans, Italians and Swedes in other departments of screen entertainment.
Vanina is the daughter of a royalist governor who wields his power so tyrannically that the people, exasperated, rebel against him and storm his feudal palace. The governor is a cripple, walking with crutches : this bodily defect makes him a counterpart of Homunculus. Like Homunculus, he is a tyrant whose sadism appears to stem from a basic inferiority complex. If this explanation of tyranny had not touched something in the Germans, it would hardly have been resumed. The rebellion is crushed, and the governor imprisons Octavio, its leader, with whom Vanina has fallen in love. Surprisingly, she succeeds in persuading her father to free Octavio and arrange for their marriage. However, his apparent generosity turns out to be sadistic finesse. While the wedding is still going on, the governor orders Octavio to be thrown again into the dungeon and then hanged. Enraged by this perfidy, Vanina strikes her crippled father and extorts from him Octavio's pardon. She runs to the dungeon, fetches her lover and heads with him for the portal of the palace. But in the meantime the governor, too, moves along with his crutches. On the strength of his counterorder the young lovers are seized just as they reach the last gate that separates them from freedom. Octavio, accompanied by Vanina, is dragged to the gallows, and the governor, convulsed with laughter, pronounces his deathsentence. Vanina drops dead ; she cannot survive her lover.
Supported by such actors as Asta Nielsen and Paul Wegener, Arthur von Gerlach made this study in sadism into a film which emphasized certain emotional complexes rampant under a tyrannical regime. Conspicuous in that respect is the sequence of the lovers' flight from the dungeon. Instead of giving the impression of speed, this sequence shows the couple walking endlessly through endless corridors. It is an escape in slow motion. Whereas an American reviewer complained of these boring "miles of passages," Bela Balazs, who was more familiar with the climate of the film, considered each new passage a "mysterious and uncanny aspect of doom." There is, at any rate, no doubt that the corridors are intended to be symbolic rather than realistic. Their uninterrupted succession, which is certainly not in the interest of suspense, delineates the dread of ever-impending punishment at the hand of a merciless tyrant. This dread decomposes the traditional hierarchy of feelings. The terrorized
fugitives experience one moment as an eternity, and limited space as space beyond any limits. Hope drives them towards the portal, but panic, which under the reign of terror is inseparable from hope, transforms their route into a monotonous repetition of blind alleys
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