[HN Gopher] Gold (1934 Film)
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       Gold (1934 Film)
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2022-11-23 23:46 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org)
        
       | joshuaheard wrote:
       | Here's a link to the movie:
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDXcyJ2x5M
        
         | cf100clunk wrote:
         | Alternative links to same:
         | 
         | https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=1LDXcyJ2x5M&quality=hd7...
         | 
         | https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=1LDXcyJ2x5M&quality=hd720
        
       | masswerk wrote:
       | I love that trope of the maverick hero embarking on his mission
       | reflected by their loved ones, left behind, as in, "Ich weiss mir
       | keinen Rat mehr, Frau Schmidt." (I don't know what to do anymore,
       | Mrs. Schmidt.) - We don't get to see this anymore... :-)
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/1LDXcyJ2x5M?t=1123
        
       | masswerk wrote:
       | Somewhat a precursor: "F.P.1 antwortet nicht" (F.P.1 Doesn't
       | Answer), 1932. The film was shot in three versions, German,
       | French, and English, each with distinctive lead actors. Hans
       | Albers, lead actor of the German version, and director Karl Hartl
       | then teamed up for "Gold". (Hartl filmed "Tunnel", another
       | success, in-between these two.)
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.P.1
       | 
       | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022869/
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       | German version (English captions available):
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkl0rjjMjQ
        
         | twic wrote:
         | As far as i can tell, Hartl had nothing to do with Tunnel. What
         | am i missing?
        
           | masswerk wrote:
           | Ah, yes, my bad, quoting Wikipedia of all things!
           | 
           | > Director Karl Hartl developed _Gold_ after the
           | international success of his previous science fiction film
           | _Der Tunnel._
           | 
           | However, "Der Tunnel" (1933) was of course directed by Curtis
           | Bernhardt (producer: Ernst Garden). I can't see, as well,
           | where Hartl would have been involved.
           | 
           | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024703/
           | 
           | https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/14338/der-tunnel-1933
           | 
           | Thanks for the correction!
        
             | wolfi1 wrote:
             | regarding the surname "Hartl" I suspected he was from
             | Austria and the WP-article confirms it. Interestingly some
             | German names are tied to some region, some times you even
             | can pin a surname to some town or village
        
               | masswerk wrote:
               | As a place, it's quite strongly connected to Styria (6
               | out of total 8 Hartl are located in Styria and all Hartl
               | are in Austria.) Surprisingly, as a surname Hartl is more
               | common in Germany - but Austria is still a viable
               | contender. :-) [1]
               | 
               | [1] https://de.namespedia.com/details/Hartl
        
               | Archelaos wrote:
               | > a surname Hartl is more common in Germany - but Austria
               | is still a viable contender
               | 
               | The maps in the link point to Bavaria as the place for
               | the German Hartls and Upper Austria for the Austrian
               | Hartls. I would not be surprised if most of the Bavarian
               | Hartls were from Lower Bavaria (or migrants from there to
               | Munich), which borders on Upper Austria. For historical
               | dialect geography, this would be the same area.[1][2]
               | 
               | [1] See the Map on German dialects aprox. 1900 at
               | Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_dialects
               | The relevant area is no. 27. "Central Bavarian". Or this
               | map of dialects aprox. 1945 (the medium blue are no 7): h
               | ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_language#/media/Fil
               | e:...
               | 
               | [2] Note that in written German there is a distinction
               | that is lost in English spelling between the state of
               | Bavaria ("Bayern", adj. "bayerisch") and the dialect (or
               | some might even claim language -- it has its own ISO
               | 639-3 code "bar") Bavarian ("Bairisch").
        
       | twic wrote:
       | The article mentions that the director made a previous science
       | fiction film, The Tunnel. But i don't think he did - that was
       | made by someone else, and it's about the construction of a trans-
       | Atlantic tunnel which ends in disaster [1]. He did make F. P. 1,
       | about the construction of a mid-Atlantic airport island which
       | ends in disaster [2]. I note that The Tunnel was re-made in
       | English (or re-adapted from the source novel) the next year [3].
       | 
       | Seems there was a good market for films about disasters under the
       | Atlantic (or North Sea, at a pinch).
       | 
       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1933_German-
       | langua...
       | 
       | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.P.1
       | 
       | [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1935_film)
        
       | ogogmad wrote:
       | Relevant: The Counterfeiters.
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(2007_film)
        
       | virtualritz wrote:
       | It was very common to shoot a picture concurrently in different
       | languages at the time.
       | 
       | Often with some lead playing the same role, as does Brigitte Helm
       | in the French and German versions of 'Gold'.
       | 
       | Another such example is 'Andalusian Nights'[1] (German) with
       | Imperio Argentina reprising her role in the Spanish version of
       | that film, 'Carmen de la Trirana'.
       | 
       | The opening has phenomenal cinematography, editing and singing
       | btw.[2]
       | 
       | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_in_Andalusia
       | 
       | [2] https://youtu.be/k42w7axKju4
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | It was even common to shoot multiple identical takes in the
         | same language and create multiple cuts of the negative. The
         | process of making positive film prints wasn't refined back
         | then, it wore out the negatives, and so having multiple
         | negative cuts enabled the producer to make more prints of a
         | popular film.
        
       | mads_quist wrote:
       | Although the film looks interesting and probably I am going to
       | watch it... What was the motive to post it? Or particularly, why
       | did you think it's interesting to the community? (Not saying it
       | isn't)
        
       | carlsborg wrote:
       | The Large Hadron Collider enables CERN scientists to create gold
       | atoms.
        
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