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German ExpressionismFilm 3 of 19
From Morning to Midnight
Von morgens bis mitternachts
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Karl Heinz Martin filmed Georg Kaiser's 1912 station drama in 1920 and could not find a German distributor. A bank cashier (Ernst Deutsch) sees a woman, steals a pile of cash, and spends one day trying to buy a life. The sets are black flats and chalk lines: a velodrome, a restaurant, a Salvation Army hall, each one more like a diagram than a room. A press screening in Munich, then a public opening in Tokyo in December 1922. The print that survived is the Japanese one. Filmmuseum München put it back together.
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The limit case. Kaiser's play shot as chalk lines on black, with the actors painted to match the sets, and no German distributor willing to touch it. Watch for the death's head that keeps surfacing in other people's faces.
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