From Morning to Midnight

From Morning to Midnight (1920)

Von morgens bis mitternachts

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisfaction in politics, sport, love and religion.

Date of release
1920-01-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Crime, Comedy
Director
Karlheinz Martin

Casting

Interesting facts

From Morn to Midnight is a 1920 German silent expressionist film directed by Karlheinz Martin based on the 1912 play From Morning to Midnight by Georg Kaiser. It is one of the most radical films of the German Expressionist movement.

Production

The film was produced in 1920 by theatre director Karlheinz Martin, a few months after the release of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He had already directed on stage the 1912 eponymous play by Georg Kaiser before World War I. The stage-like painted sets, the costumes and the performance of the actors form an artistic unity and are characteristic of Expressionism.

From Morn to Midnight is one of the first German films that address the lure of "the great world" and "the street". It can be considered as a forerunner of the so-called street films (Straßenfilme), such as Karl Grune's Die Straße (1923) and Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Joyless Street (1925).

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