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Mania
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Mania
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Produced by: Projektions-AG
Union, Germany Runtime: 85 minutes Mania Walkowska,
a good looking young employee in a cigarette factory is to become
a model on an advertisement poster. She is courted by Morelli,
a rich and influential art patron. But Mania is on love with Hans,
who is a young composer. She inspires him to write an opera, to
be staged in an opera house in Berlin. Jealous Morelli uses his
influence, and Hans's work, entitled Mania, is rejected. Mania
tries to convince Morelli to help Hans. He agrees on the condition
that she gives herself to him on the day of the opening night.
On the opening night Mania, being desperate, locks a dancer in
a dressing room and takes her place on the stage. She also switches
a dummy revolver for a real one
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"Mania" is the
result of an international cooperation between artists, from
the time when silent movies crossed the national and linguistic
borders. The movie was shot in Berlin in politically turbulent
times; however its contents pertain to universal truths. The
great artistic value of "Mania" comes from the lively narration,
interesting acting and characters, as well as innovative operator's
tricks, which make it a valuable relic of cinematography, among
the most important silent movies. The elaborate scenery was
designed by Paul Leni, later known for his direction of expressionist
movies. The movie was long thought irrevocably lost. In 2006,
Filmoteka Narodowa bought the nitrate copy from a Czech collector
and subjected it to painstaking reconstruction process. Thanks
to those efforts "Mania" was in a sense brought back to life.
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