Typhoon (1933 film)

Typhoon
Typhoon
Directed by	Robert Wiene
Written by	Melchior Lengyel (play); Robert Wiene;
Produced by	Adolf Noé; Robert Wiene;
Starring	Liane Haid; Viktor de Kowa; Valéry Inkijinoff; Veit Harlan;
Cinematography	Heinrich Gärtner
Edited by	Carl Otto Bartning
Music by	Stefan Rényi; Helmut Wolfes;
Production; company	Camera-Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Terra Film (Germany)
Release dates	25 August 1933 (Vienna, 1st version); 27 July 1934 (Berlin, 2nd version);
Running time	81/76 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Typhoon (German: Taifun) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Liane Haid, Viktor de Kowa and Valéry Inkijinoff. It was based on the 1911 play Typhoon by the Hungarian writer Melchior Lengyel. It was the last German film made by Wiene,^[1] who had been a leading director of German silent cinema.

Synopsis

A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a

blackmailer

.

Production and release

The film was produced by Wiene's own

censors were also concerned that the incompetence of the French justice system would be taken by audiences to mean the German one, undermining their faith in it.^[2]

The film had its debut in the Austrian capital Vienna. It was later released heavily re-shot under the alternative title Polizeiakte 909. The new version dramatically altered its plot from the original and the Japanese are now portrayed as unsympathetic villains.^[3] The new version was approved by German censors and released in 1934 although its critical reception was poor. It is possible that Wiene, who had left for Budapest in 1933 following the Nazi rise to power, did not personally work on the new version.^[4]

Cast

Liane Haid as Helene Laroche
Viktor de Kowa as Charles Renard-Brinski
Valéry Inkijinoff as Doctor Nitobe Tokeramo
Veit Harlan as Inose Hironari
Arthur Bergen as Yoshikawa
Paul Mederow as Vorsitzender
Bernhard Goetzke as Prosecutor
Paul Henckels as Defense lawyer
Josef Dahmen as Werkdetektiv
Friedrich Ettel as Kriminalrat Morre

References

^ Jung & Schatzberg p.176
^ Jung & Schatzberg p.172-173
^ Jung & Schatzberg p.173-174
^ Jung & Schatzberg p.174-175

Bibliography

Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

Typhoon at
IMDb

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[1] Jung & Schatzberg p.176

[2] Jung & Schatzberg p.172-173

[3] Jung & Schatzberg p.173-174

[4] Jung & Schatzberg p.174-175

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v t e Films directed by Robert Wiene
1910s	He This Way, She That Way (1914) The Canned Bride (1915) Frau Eva (1916) The Queen's Love Letter (1916) The Queen's Secretary (1916) The Wandering Light (1916) The Robber Bride (1916) Lehmann's Honeymoon (1916) The Man in the Mirror (1917) Life Is a Dream (1917) Steadfast Benjamin (1917) Fear (1917)
1920s	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) The Three Dances of Mary Wilford (1920) Genuine (1920) The Night of Queen Isabeau (1920) Panic in the House of Ardon (1920) A Woman's Revenge (1921) Playing with Fire (1921) The Infernal Power (1922) Raskolnikow (1923) The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning (1923) I.N.R.I. (1923) The Hands of Orlac (1924) Boarding House Groonen (1925) The Guardsman (1925) Der Rosenkavalier (1926) The Queen of Moulin Rouge (1926) The Mistress (1927) The Famous Woman (1927) The Woman on the Rack (1928) Leontine's Husbands (1928) The Great Adventuress (1928) Folly of Love (1928)
1930s	The Other (1930) The Prosecutor Hallers (1930) The Love Express (1931) Venetian Nights (1931) Panic in Chicago (1931) Typhoon (1933) A Night in Venice (1934) Ultimatum (1938)