Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky

Deutschland 1993-1996 Spielfilm

A Trick of the Light

This film by Wim Wenders and students of the Munich Film Academy deals with the birth of cinema in Berlin, where the brothers Skladanowsky built a projector, the "Bioskop", at the same time as the Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in America, and thereby co-invented "moving pictures" in their very own, poetic, poor, endearing and rather "un-German" way.

The film starts a hundred years ago and it ends today, with Max Skladanowsky′s daughter Lucie who still remembers her dad and those early days of cinema very well. The film was shot mostly on an old hand-cranker from the twenties, silent, and in the best slapstick tradition.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

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Shoot

    • 1993 - 1995: Berlin
Duration:
82 min
Format:
16mm - Blow-Up 35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 06.05.1999

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
  • Untertitel Akt I: Wie Papa den Kintopp erfunden hat
  • Untertitel Akt II: Die erste Vorführung
  • Untertitel Akt III: 1895 - 1995
  • weiterer Titel Die Brüder Skladanowsky
  • Weiterer Titel (eng) A Trick of the Light
  • TV-Titel (DE) Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky - Akt I: Wie Papa den Kintopp erfunden hat
  • TV-Titel (DE) Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky - Akt II: Die erste Vorführung

Versions

Original

Duration:
82 min
Format:
16mm - Blow-Up 35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 06.05.1999

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
82 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (IT): 22.06.2024, Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival;
Aufführung (DE): 18.08.2024, Bonn, Internationale Stummfilmtage

Teilfassung

Weiterer Titel (DE)
  • TV-Titel (DE)
  • Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky - Akt I: Wie Papa den Kintopp erfunden hat
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Ton
Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 31.10.1995, Bayern 3

Weiterer Titel (DE)
  • TV-Titel (DE)
  • Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky - Akt II: Die erste Vorführung
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Ton
Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 31.10.1995, Bayern 3

TV-Fassung

Duration:
46 min
Video/Audio:
s/w + Farbe, Ton
Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 28.12.1995, Arte [Enthält Bestandteile aller drei Akte.]