Von morgens bis mitternachts (Martin)

Georg Kaiser decribes in his Expressionist theater play the attempt of a bank cashier to escape his middle class daily life. Director Karlheinz Martin's adaptation transfers Kaiser's play into an Expressionist film of radical stylization.
The German film industry was so irritated by the result that the film never found a distribution and was never shown in German cinemas. The only existing print of this classic survived in Japan where the film received a cinema release and was preserved by the National Film Center.
The Munich Filmmuseum restored the film and added two scores transferring the visual avantgarde concept of the film into a musical structure: An improvised performance for three percussionists by the SchlagEnsemble H/F/M and a modern score for seven musicians composed and conducted by Yati Durant.






Von morgens bis mitternachts
Directed by: Karlheinz Martin
Written by: Karlheinz Martin, Herbert Juttke, based on the play by Georg Kaiser
Cinematography by: Carl Hoffmann
Cast: Ernst Deutsch, Erna Morena, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Eberhard Wrede, Roma Bahn, Frieda Richard
Produced by: Produktion, München, Germany 1921

Von morgens bis mitternachts, 73'
Improvised score by SchlagEnsemble H/F/M
New ensemble music composed and conducted by Yati Durant
Percussion Art auf den Internationalen Stummfilmtagen Bonn 2008, 8'
Booklet with essays by Fritz Göttler, Inge Degenhardt and Jürgen Kasten
Edited by: Filmmuseum München, Goethe-Institut München

R0 / Dolby Digital 2.0 / German intertitles / optional subtitling: English, French, Spanish