New Year's Eve (1924 film)

New Year's Eve
Directed byLupu Pick
Written byCarl Mayer
Produced byLupu Pick
StarringEugen Klöpfer
Edith Posca
CinematographyKarl Hasselmann
Guido Seeber
Edited byLuise Heilborn-Körbitz
Music byKlaus Pringsheim Sr.
Production
company
Rex-Film GmbH
Distributed byUniversum Film AG
Release date
  • 3 January 1924 (1924-01-03)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageSilent film

New Year's Eve (German: Sylvester: Tragödie einer Nacht) is a 1924 German silent Kammerspielfilm directed by Lupu Pick and written by Carl Mayer. It was filmed in 1923 and premiered in Berlin on 4 January 1924.[1][2] The film is known to be one of the earliest examples of a kammerspielfilm[3] and was innovative in its extensive use of "entfesselte Kamera", using tracking and gliding techniques as opposed to keeping the camera stationary.[4] Like Pick's previous films, New Year's Eve does not use intertitles.

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  2. ^ Scheunemann, Dietrich (1 September 2006). Expressionist Film: New Perspectives. Camden House. p. 277. ISBN 9781571133502. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  3. ^ Silberman, Marc (1995). German Cinema. Wayne State University Press. p. 253. ISBN 0814325602. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  4. ^ Thompson, Kristin (1 February 2006). Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press. p. 119. ISBN 9789053567081. Retrieved 10 September 2012.