Ariane (film)

1931 film

Ariane

Directed by| Paul Czinner
Written by|

* Paul Czinner
* Carl Mayer

Based on| Ariane by Claude Anet
Produced by|

* Seymour Nebenzahl
* Ernst Wolff

Starring|

* Elisabeth Bergner
* Rudolf Forster
* Annemarie Steinsieck

Cinematography| Adolf Schlasy
Edited by| Herbert Selpin
Music by| André Roubaud

Production
company

Nero Film

Distributed by| Vereinigte Star-Film

Release date

* 20 February 1931 (1931-02-20)

Running time

| 85 minutes
Country| Germany
Language| German

Ariane is a 1931 German drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Rudolf Forster and Annemarie Steinsieck.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1920 French novel Ariane, jeune fille russe by Claude Anet. Two alternative language versions The Loves of Ariane and Ariane, jeune fille russe were made at the same time. The film was the inspiration of the 1957 Billy Wilder film Love in the Afternoon.[2] Wilder remembered the film as "touching and funny".[2] It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Zander and Karl Weber. Location shooting took place in Paris.

## Plot

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The exiled Russian student Ariane Kusnetzowa passed her Abitur(or Abi, which is essentially graduating high school) at a high school in Zurich. She decides to travel to Berlin to study. During a visit to the opera, she meets the well-mannered, world-experienced and much older Konstantin Michael, a charming and yet a little cool gentleman and bon vivant. He starts wooing her, and the young and initially shy girl tries to catch up with him by pretending to be a seasoned adventuress who already has some experience with men.

Konstantin makes his point of view clear to Ariane from the start. "I won't be staying here long. One day I will travel and never return. But I would like to spend this short time with you, Ariane Kuznetzowa.” Ariane gets involved in this game in the hope of one day binding this enigmatic man, who has a strong charisma, to her forever. She doesn't want to admit the love she feels for him (yet). After a holiday together in Italy, the day of departure comes. This ends in nothing more than an adventure for Konstantin, and he abandons Ariane without batting an eyelid. A world collapses for the girl. Although deeply hurt, she doesn't show it and acts completely cool when she says goodbye.

Back in Berlin, Ariane considers how she can take revenge on Konstantin for this humiliation. The opportunity arises when he comes to Berlin again and arranges to meet Ariane. When she comes face to face with him, she can't help but confess her love to him in a heated argument. Gradually Konstantin begins to understand. Ariane has decided to end the chapter of Constantine for good. Saying goodbye at the train station. When the train starts to move, Ariane follows along for a while, then the man makes his decision. At the moment when her strength is about to dwindle, Konstantin Michael lifts the girl onto the train. Both drive into a common future.

## Cast

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* Elisabeth Bergner as Ariane Kusnetzowa
* Rudolf Forster as Konstantin Michael
* Annemarie Steinsieck as Tante Warwara
* Hertha Guthmar as Olga
* Theodor Loos as Doctor Hans Adameit
* Nikolas Wassiljeff as Student
* Alfred Gerasch as Doctor

## References

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1. ^ BFI.org
2. ^ a b Philips p. 187

## Bibliography

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* Phillips, Gene D. (2010). Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-7367-2.

## External links

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* Ariane at IMDb
* Ariane Full movie at the Deutsche Filmothek

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The films of Paul Czinner

* Victims of Passion (1922)
* Husbands or Lovers (1924)
* The Fiddler of Florence (1926)
* Love (1927)
* Doña Juana (1927)
* Fräulein Else (1929)
* The Way of Lost Souls (1929)
* The Loves of Ariane (1931)
* Ariane (1931)
* Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932)
* Dreaming Lips (1932)
* The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
* Escape Me Never (1935)
* As You Like It (1936)
* Dreaming Lips (1937)
* Stolen Life (1939)

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Claude Anet's Ariane, jeune fille russe

Films|

* Ariane, jeune fille russe (1931 French)
* The Loves of Ariane (1931 English)
* Ariane (1931 German)
* Love in the Afternoon (1957)
* Arım Balım Petegım (1970)

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