SPECIAL EVENTS
SPECIAL EVENTS
IL FIGLIOL PRODIGO (DER VERLORENE SOHN) The Prodigal Son
regia e sceneggiatura / director and script: Luis Trenker
fotografia / camera: Albert Benitz, Reimar Kuntze
musica / music: Giuseppe Becce
produzione / production: Deutsche Universal FilmGermania 1934 102 minuti b/n 35mm.
Premiato alla Biennale di Venezia 1935con Maria Andergast; Luis Trenker (Tonio Feuersinger); Marian Marsh; Paul Henkels; Jimmy Fox
Prima proiezione dell'edizione italiana ristampata da negativo restaurato a cura del Museo Nazionale della Montagna - CAI Torino
Anton, a mountain man, leaves his native land attracted by the American dream. New York, his new surroundings are hostile. His grows depressed. His world is in Baviera, with his home, his mountains and his girl friend. Urged on by his homesickness, he goes back home. This is TrenkerÌs most significant film, with several neorealistic sequences, about Heimat, desertion and returning home.
Luis Trenker (1892-1990), South-Tyrolese, is one of the most well known directors of mountain films. Alpinist, architect, violinist, actor, director, scriptwriter, writer, Luis became an important figure in 1930s cinema.
He worked with Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl.
The National Mountain Museum is organising a film exhibition of Luis TrenkerÌs production called ÏLuis Trenker, il mito della montagna in celluloideÓ, showing in December 2000.
