SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Sommernachtstraum!

Synopsis

German silent film. A modernised version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Stellan Rye.

Country

Germany

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1913

Duration

c4000 feet

Availability

No archive copy found. Presumed a lost film.

Credits

Director

Stellan Rye

Producer

Hanns Heinz Ewers

Cinematographer

Guido Seeber

Screenplay

Hanns Heinz Ewers; Stellan Rye

Cast

Grete Berger	Puck (Robin Goodfellow)
Anni Mewes
Carl Clewing	Lysander
Grete Reinwald
Hanni Reinwald
Ida Winter
Jean Ducret
Otto Reinwald

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General

Ball surmises that the film was released in four reels.

Reviews

Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (p.177). Ball writes’ Grete Berger, who played Puck, presented that character with lickerish leers. In short, the playful fantasy of Shakespeare must have become a grotesquerie with sensual implications, and quite possibly a gross and nasty distortion, ill met by moonlight or any other time’.

Production Company

Name

Deutsche Bioscop