Das blaue Licht. Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten
Kuvaus:
Hans SchneebergerSävellys:
Giuseppe BecceNäyttelijät:
Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer, Martha Mair, Franz MaldaceaJuonikuvaukset(1)
Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a mysterious blue light glows when the moon is full. Many young men of the village have died trying to follow her. She is soon driven out of town, and takes to living in the mountains. Eventually, she shares the secret of the blue light with one man, and he betrays it. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
Stereolab: However, The Blue Light is one of the best sound films of the Weimar era, and the fact that Leni Riefenstahl was part of many silent films is perhaps also well known... so why speculate on whether she was inspired? She was the top female performer in mountain films, a genre she did not abandon even in sound film. Thanks to the success of such films, she was then able to produce The Blue Light herself because she was financially independent. Yes, she had offers from Hollywood, and Joe von Sternberg even considered casting her as the antithesis of the new Marlene... but as many experiences have shown, there was no clear choice for Europeans in the early years of sound film between Hollywood and Babelsberg. Marlene herself literally suffered from separation and loss of her roots, and the completely different work method in the early years. In the end, sound film buried the transnationalism, and back then a lot of people were coming back. How the political situation changed shortly thereafter is another matter and no one was omniscient.
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