The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov

The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov
The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov
Directed by	Erich Engels; Fedor Ozep;
Screenplay by	Erich Engels; Leonhard Frank; Fedor Ozep; Victor Trivas;
Based on	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Produced by	Eugene Frenke
Starring	Fritz Kortner; Anna Sten; Fritz Rasp;
Cinematography	Friedl Behn-Grund
Edited by	Fedor Ozep; Hans von Passavant;
Music by	Karol Rathaus; Kurt Schröder;
Production; company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	6 February 1931;
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German
Budget	$100,000
Box office	$2 million

The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (German: Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Erich Engels and Fedor Ozep, starring Fritz Kortner and Anna Sten. It tells the story of a lieutenant who is suspected of having murdered his father. The film is based on motifs from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.^[2] A separate French version The Brothers Karamazov was produced.

Cast[edit]

Fritz Kortner as Dimitri Karamasoff
Anna Sten as Gruschenka
Fritz Rasp as Smerdjakoff
Bernhard Minetti as Iwan Karamasoff
Max Pohl as Fedor Karamasoff
Hanna Waag as Katja
Fritz Alberti as Gerichtspräsident
Werner Hollmann as Der Pole
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Fenja

Production[edit]

The film was produced by Terra Film and shot at the company's Marienfelde Studios in Berlin. Filming took place from 22 October to 24 November 1930.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Richter and Victor Trivas.

Reception[edit]

The British film critic Raymond Durgnat wrote in a 1993 article about Ozep for Film Dope: "The Karamazov film is a tour de force of stylistic eclecticism: expressionist acting (Kortner), dynamic angles, Russian editing, marathon tracking shots. It's a real showpiece of formalism geared to psycho-lyrical ends, exactly as Eisenstein intended, except that Dostoievskian soul-torments replace Leninist collectivism to which the 'official' montage-masters tuned their lyres."^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "NEWS OF THE SCREEN: Warners Seek to Settle Dispute With Cagney—Garbo film, 'Conquest,' Opens Here Today Of Local Origin Role for Cary Grant Warners Borrow Bellamy". New York Times. 4 November 1937. p. 28.
^ ^a ^b "Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff". Filmportal.de (in German). Deutsches Filminstitut. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
^ MacKenzie, Scott (2003). "Soviet Expansionism: Fedor Ozep's Transnational Cinema" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 12 (2). Film Studies Association of Canada: 97. doi:10.3138/cjfs.12.1.92. ISSN 0847-5911.

External links[edit]

The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov at IMDb

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[nyt-1] "NEWS OF THE SCREEN: Warners Seek to Settle Dispute With Cagney—Garbo film, 'Conquest,' Opens Here Today Of Local Origin Role for Cary Grant Warners Borrow Bellamy". New York Times. 4 November 1937. p. 28.

[filmportal-2] "Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff". Filmportal.de (in German). Deutsches Filminstitut. Retrieved 27 May 2015.

[filmstudies-3] MacKenzie, Scott (2003). "Soviet Expansionism: Fedor Ozep's Transnational Cinema" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 12 (2). Film Studies Association of Canada: 97. doi:10.3138/cjfs.12.1.92. ISSN 0847-5911.

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