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Four Around The Woman (Germany) 1921
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Nov 7, 2012, 11:34:30 AM11/7/12
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There have been three re-discovered Fritz Lang films kicking around for the last twenty years or so in washed out prints showing up on Youtube or the internet archive and now Kino has restored them and released them on DVD.
This film – made just before Der Müde Tod – is clearly Lang coming into a recognizable style and also shows the ascendancy of Thea von Harbou – this is their second film together as co-writers – and there are scenes that will reappear in somewhat different form in later films.
Little has been written critically about these films as they were lost when Lotte Eisner and Frederick Ott wrote their books about Lang and Patrick McGilligan pays them scant attention is his recent biography of Lang.
Film und Presse noted at the time:
“The core of the complicated plot is the struggle of four men for one woman. Chance, kismet and mysterious darkness, heightened by a doppelgänger. Final exposure of the evil principle and victory of the good.”
The “complicated plot” isn’t helped by still-missing pieces of the film and yet this film is classic Lang.
“Vier um die Frau” (aka “Four Around A Woman”) produced by Erich Pommer for Decla-Bioscop. Directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou and Lang based on Rolf E. Vanloo’s play Florence oder Die Drei bei der Frau. Cinematography by Otto Kanturek. Art Direction by Ernest Meiwers and Hans Jacoby. Starring Ludwig Hartau, Hermann Böttcher, Anton Edthofer, Carola Trölle, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Anton Edthofer, among others.
This film – made just before Der Müde Tod – is clearly Lang coming into a recognizable style and also shows the ascendancy of Thea von Harbou – this is their second film together as co-writers – and there are scenes that will reappear in somewhat different form in later films.
Little has been written critically about these films as they were lost when Lotte Eisner and Frederick Ott wrote their books about Lang and Patrick McGilligan pays them scant attention is his recent biography of Lang.
Film und Presse noted at the time:
“The core of the complicated plot is the struggle of four men for one woman. Chance, kismet and mysterious darkness, heightened by a doppelgänger. Final exposure of the evil principle and victory of the good.”
The “complicated plot” isn’t helped by still-missing pieces of the film and yet this film is classic Lang.
“Vier um die Frau” (aka “Four Around A Woman”) produced by Erich Pommer for Decla-Bioscop. Directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou and Lang based on Rolf E. Vanloo’s play Florence oder Die Drei bei der Frau. Cinematography by Otto Kanturek. Art Direction by Ernest Meiwers and Hans Jacoby. Starring Ludwig Hartau, Hermann Böttcher, Anton Edthofer, Carola Trölle, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Anton Edthofer, among others.
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