DEUTSCHES FILMINSTITUT – DIF, Frankfurt
Restored films
HAMLET (Sven Gade, Heinz Schall, Germany 1920/1921 produced by Art-Film GmbH Berlin).
Silent feature film, previously only circulated in b/w American export
version from the collection of MoMA. Restored to original German premiere
version, from near-complete polychrome German (DIF) and French (CNC)
vintage release prints deriving off same camera negative. Front titles
and inter titles completed based on surviving German censorship record.
Work completed in 2007. 35mm, photochemical restoration using Desmet
method reproduction of tinting and toning combined with stencil coloured
shots handled in digital domain (2K), silent, German inter titles,
2367m including restoration credits.
ALT-WIESBADEN (Germany 1914)
Wiesbaden am Rhein (Dr. Paul Wolff, Germany 1929)
Films in danger
HELEN LA BELLE (Lotte Reiniger, GB 1957)
A KNIGHT IN A HAREM (Lotte Reiniger, GB 1958)
HOCHBAHNKATASTROPHE (Valy Arnheim, DE 1921)
Activities 27.10.
HANS TRUTZ IM SCHLARAFFENLAND
Sunday, 8.30 pm, Kino des Deutschen Filmmuseums Frankfurt
The DIF will provide insight into the detective-work of researching and reconstructing film material. Using the film HANS TRUTZ IM SCHLARAFFENLAND (Paul Wegener, Germany 1917) as an example, we will illustrate why numerous works of film history are lost. Only incomplete prints of this once feature-length film, produced by, are held in archives around the world. On this occasion, 90 years after the film´s celebrated premiere, the fragment preserved by the film archive of the DIF will be presented along side surviving paper documents, contemporary reviews and stills.