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The Other (1930 film)

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The Other
Directed byRobert Wiene
Written byJohannes Brandt
Based onDer Andere
1894 play
by Paul Lindau
Starring
CinematographyNicolas Farkas
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 12 August 1930 (1930-8-12)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Other (German: Der Andere) is a 1930 German drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Fritz Kortner, Käthe von Nagy and Heinrich George. It was based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau but it is very likely that Wiene was influenced by its first screen adaptation, released in 1913.[1] It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin.[2] A French-language version titled The Prosecutor Hallers was shot by Wiene immediately afterwards in the same Berlin studio, but with different actors.

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Reception

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Ernst Bloch extensively analysed the differences between the 1913 and the 1930 and their social context.[3]

The similarities between the plot and Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde have been noted.[4]

The film was also described as one the "first auteur films about the doppelgänger motif".[5]

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References

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  1. ^ Larrue, Jean-Marc; Pisano, Giusy (29 May 2017). Le triomphe de la scène intermédiale: Théâtre et médias à l'ère numérique (in French). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. ISBN 978-2-7606-3770-2.
  2. ^ Jung & Schatzberg p. 153
  3. ^ Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film. BRILL. 29 June 2015. ISBN 978-94-012-0501-6.
  4. ^ Curti, Roberto (16 April 2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9437-8.
  5. ^ Bär, Gerald (2005). Das Motiv des Doppelgängers als Spaltungsphantasie in der Literatur und im deutschen Stummfilm (in German). Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1874-7.

Bibliography

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  • Jung, Uli; Schatzberg, Walter (1999). Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-156-1.
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