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Vormittags-Spuk

Deutschland 1928 Experimentalfilm

Ghosts Before Breakfast

Hans Richter's experimental film – not an abstract one in this case, but with real objects and people in the leading roles – depicts a "rebellion of the objects" (Richter) in a surreal manner: doors opening and closing by themselves, hats travelling through landscapes without a wearer, revolvers multiplying and threatening people are just a few of the objects which develop a life of their own and populate this film's cheerful dream world.

Source: 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

 

Credits

Director

  • Hans Richter

Screenplay

  • Hans Richter
  • Werner Graeff

Director of photography

  • Reimar Kuntze

Editing

  • Hans Richter

Music

  • Paul Hindemith (1928)
  • Fernando Lafferière (1983)

Cast

  • Willi Pferdekamp
  • Hans Richter
  • Werner Graeff
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Madeleine Milhaud
  • Hans Oser
  • Walter Gronostay

Production company

  • Hans Richter-Gesellschaft Neuer Film (Berlin)

Producer

  • Hans Richter

Alle Credits

Director

  • Hans Richter

Screenplay

  • Hans Richter
  • Werner Graeff

Director of photography

  • Reimar Kuntze

Editing

  • Hans Richter

Music

  • Paul Hindemith (1928)
  • Fernando Lafferière (1983)

Cast

  • Willi Pferdekamp
  • Hans Richter
  • Werner Graeff
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Madeleine Milhaud
  • Hans Oser
  • Walter Gronostay

Production company

  • Hans Richter-Gesellschaft Neuer Film (Berlin)

Commissioned by

  • Tobis-Industrie GmbH (Tiges) (Berlin)
  • Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (DE)

Producer

  • Hans Richter
Duration:
1 Akte, 170 m, ca. 9 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1.33
Video/Audio:
s/w, stumm + Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 11.07.1928, B.19467, Jugendfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): August 1928, Baden-Baden, Kurtheater [im Rahmen des Kammer-Musikfests];
Uraufführung (DE): 25.07.1929, Baden-Baden, Kammermusikfest, Film-Palast [Tonfassung]

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Vormittags-Spuk
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Vormittags-Spuk. Die Rebellion der Gegenstände
  • Schreibvariante (DE) Vormittagsspuk
  • Weiterer Titel (ENG) Ghosts Before Breakfast

Versions

Original

Duration:
1 Akte, 170 m, ca. 9 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1.33
Video/Audio:
s/w, stumm + Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 11.07.1928, B.19467, Jugendfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): August 1928, Baden-Baden, Kurtheater [im Rahmen des Kammer-Musikfests];
Uraufführung (DE): 25.07.1929, Baden-Baden, Kammermusikfest, Film-Palast [Tonfassung]

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