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dal je neko gledo film ULTIMATUM iz 1938me, poslednji od r. wienea (umro, pa ga završio r. siodmak)?
film govori o ljubavi srpskog oficira Generala Simovića (Erich von Stroheim) i austrijanke, uoči i za vreme WWI.
za razliku od ovih današnjih filmova i igrica u kojima, kao, figuriraju neki 'srbi' s nesrpskim imenima, imponuje kad vidiš u cast of characters istinska naša imena: Stanko Salic, Anna Salic, Lt. Ristic, itd.
"This drama is set in the Balkans just before WW II erupts and chronicles the marriage of a Serbian soldier to an Austrian woman. During the wedding, the bride is accompanied by a friend who objects to the union on nationalistic grounds." ovaj plot greši sa vremenskim smeštanjem, nema WWII veze s ovim.
nađoh samo ovaj rivju na NYTIMES-s
The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940) February 5, 1940 THE SCREEN; 'Ultimatum,' a French Film of 1914's War of Nerves, at the Fifth Avenue--Reports on Other New Films By FRANK S. NUGENT Published: February 5, 1940
It sometimes happens that a film's lack of professional polish, its jagged continuity, raw lighting and unartistic photography become its greatest assets. "Ultimatum," the new French film at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, is shot through with these defects, yet must be considered, because of them, a strangely vivid, naturalistic account of the war of nerves which always precedes war itself—the war of nerves, in this case, being between Serbia and Austria-Hungary just before and just after Sarajevo. We give the picture no great credit as drama, since its personal story has no dramatic strength, but it is an interesting record of growth of those monstrous fungi—fear, hate, suspicion and arrogance—which spring up overnight on war-shadowed land.
In telling of their effect on a people and on a few little persons, Robert Wiene, its director, has employed realism almost as diligently as he employed expressionism in his more famous "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." From libraries of film he has taken shots of Serbian and Hungarian peasants dancing together on the banks of the Danube, of calm citizens of Belgrade and Vienna, looking much the same, as they go about their daily work. And matching the objectivity of his peacetime scenes have been his glimpses into clubrooms where round-table generals and post-military-age patriots complacently mouth the world "ultimatum," speak proudly of national honor and forecast glorious victory within five weeks.
Unfortunately Mr. Wiene has been unable to carry over his cynical, pointed appraisal of war into the personal drama his cast has striven helplessly to clarify and vitalize. The story of two former comrades, in love with the same woman and predestined to meet on the unsafe ground of espionage, is melodrama basically, and rather inept melodrama as it comes through here. More effective, but only by performance and not by significance, is Eric von Stroheim's portrayal of the crippled commandant whose personal gallantry and chivalry (like that of his officer in "Grand Illusion") stands out ruefully against the murk and dirt of war itself. This was Wiene's last picture. He died a few weeks after its completion. He intended it obviously as some sort of a message and a warning; since it came too late, it probably does not matter that it was not worded any too clearly and exists merely as an interesting, if cryptic, document.
ULTIMATUM, screen play by Leo Lania, with dialogue by Alexandre Arnoux; music by Adolphe Borchard; directed by Robert Wiene; a French production distributed here by Hoffberg Productions, Inc. At the Fifth Avenue Playhouse. Commandant Stanko Salic . . . . . Bernard Lancret Anna Salic . . . . . Dita Parlo General Simovic . . . . . Eric von Stroheim Captain Karl Burgstaller . . . . . Abel Jacquin Lieutenant Ristic . . . . . Georges Rollin Legrain . . . . . Marcel Andre Usir . . . . . Aimos
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