\u00bbElisabeth was the peerless embodiment of a figure that was neither woman nor man. The short hair and the Bergner curl on her forehead\u2014this look became the fashion of the day. She spoke the German language in her own way, putting accents on unexpected syllables. She played with the audience like a magician. The fascination intoxicated us all. She knew that.\u00ab
\nMarlene Dietrich<\/p>\n
Young Ariane<\/strong> Kusnetzowa is fun-loving and full of energy. The expatriate Russian gravitates from Switzerland to Berlin to begin her mathematics studies. \u00bbI so long to finally become free and independent. I have to go out into the world at last, I have to\u00ab, she declares after passing her school-leaving exams with flying colours. Ariane promptly meets the much older bon vivant Konstantin Michael at the opera, who flirts intensely with her. She submits to his charms and plays up her inexperience to him, also because he makes no bones about having no time for deeper feelings and innocent girls and just wanting a casual fling. Ariane, on the other hand, throws all her emotions into their relationship, going out of her way and investing far more in her first affair than he does. When Konstantin dumps her while they are on holiday in Italy, Ariane acts cool but is deeply hurt. Guests: <\/strong>Renate Berger <\/strong>(art historian& curator), Anke Hahn<\/strong> (Head of Film Distribution of the Deutsche Kinemathek) With Elisabeth Bergner<\/p>\n Elisabeth Bergner, born in 1897, studied at the Vienna Conservatory and is one of the pre-eminent actresses of the early 20th century. Her major breakthrough came in 1923 as Rosalind in Max Reinhardt\u2019s production of As You Like It<\/strong>. She made her film debut in the same year. In 1924, she began her artistic collaboration with Paul Czinner, who wrote roles for her that brought out Bergner\u2019s androgynous eroticism. The couple emigrated to England in 1933 and married. She successfully continued her career in theatre and film, was nominated for an Oscar and went to Hollywood in 1940. She died in London in 1986. In 2021, the biography Die Schauspielerin Elisabeth Bergner: Ein Leben zwischen Selbstbehauptung und MeToo<\/em> was published, in which Renate Berger describes how difficult it was for actresses in the theatre in the 1920s to assert themselves within a deeply sexist system.<\/p>\n Films with Elisabeth Bergner (Selection)<\/strong>
\nAriane is the first sound film in Elisabeth Bergner\u2019s distinguished film career.<\/p>\n
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\nFeine Gesellschaft \u2013 beschr\u00e4nkte Haftung<\/strong> 1982 | Der Pfingstausflug <\/strong>1978 | Die gl\u00fccklichen Jahre der Thorwalds <\/strong>1962 | Verlass mich niemals wieder <\/strong>1935 | Katharina die Gro\u00dfe <\/strong>1934 | Fr\u00e4ulein Else <\/strong>1929 | Do\u00f1a Juana <\/strong>1927 | Der Geiger von Florenz <\/strong>1926 | Nju <\/strong>1924 | Der Evangelimann <\/strong>1923<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26039,"template":"","movie_year":[702],"movie_genre":[629],"movie_cat":[718],"festival":[687],"class_list":["post-25092","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-702","movie_genre-spielfilm-2","movie_cat-focus-2023-en","festival-2023-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n