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From Morn to Midnight

192073 minGermany
Drama

Synopsis

A bank cashier imagines a more exciting life after seeing an elegant foreign customer. He steals money and abandons his family, hoping wealth will buy the intensity he has been missing. Moving through fashionable entertainments and public gatherings, he repeatedly discovers that the experiences he purchases do not answer the need that drove him away.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German.
This copy runs
72:25
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Karlheinz Martin, Herbert Juttke · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsKarlheinz Martin

Behind the scenes

Karlheinz Martin brings Georg Kaiser's play into a visual world of distorted painted scenery, emphatic costume and stylized performance. The coordination of those elements makes the film a particularly concentrated experiment in German Expressionism.

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  • Ernst Deutsch — Waldemar Franz Hermann Titzenthaler; scan from: Enno Kaufhold: Berliner Interieurs. Photographien von Waldemar Titzenthaler , Berlin: Nicolai 1999, S. 130. · Public domain
  • Erna Morena — Alexander Binder; https://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/4797957893/ · Public domain

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