Sommernachtstraum, Ein

Alternative title

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wood Love Heiteres Fastnachtsspeil, Ein

Synopsis

Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the accompaniment of Eric Borchards’s Original-Jazzband. Klabund’s titles were not bridges between sequences, but in their smart-alec, sometimes amusing, sometimes banal, way directed the spectators to unconventional interpretations an became the centre for the whole film. sequences. The court of Athens, man, Shakespeare himself were ridiculed. The tone was mocking, ironical, parodistic’.

The film was believed to be lost but nitrate fragments were found in the Deutsches Historisches Museum in the 1990s and may now be in the Bundesarchiv (unconfirmed 3/2013).

Country

Germany

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1925

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Director

Hans Neumann

Producer

Hans Neumann

Cinematographer

Guido Seeber; Reimar Kuntze

Screenplay

Hans Neumann

Music

Hans May

Production Design

Ernö Metzner

Costume

Ernö Metzner

Cast

Alexander Granach
André Mattoni
Armand Guerra
Barbara von Annenkoff
Bruno Zieger
Charlotte Ander
Ernst Gronau
Fritz Rasp
Hans Albers
Lori Leux
Martin Jacob
Paul Günther
Ruth Weyher
Tamara Geva
Theodor Becker
Valeska Gert
Walter Brandt
Werner Krauß
Wilhelm Bendow

Production Company

Name

Neumann-Producktion