Unmogliche Liebe
Sog.: Dal Romanzo Di Alfred Schirokhauer; Scen.: Erich Waschneck, Franz Winterstein; F.: Bruno Mondi; Scgf.: Hans Jacoby; Int.: Asta Nielsen (Vera Holgk), Ery Bos (Nora, Sua Figlia), Ellen Schwannecke (Toni), Hans Rehmann (Professor Steinkampp), Elisabeth Wendt (Katharina Steinkampp), Anton Pointer (Leopold Von Mollenhof), Walter Steinbeck (Werner, Il Console), Lotte Spira (Sua Moglie), Carl Balhaus (Erwin Hammer), Hilde Hildebrand (Signorina Martini), Julius Falkenstein (Zimmermann, Domestico Della Famiglia Steinkampp), Werner Scharf (Hagedorn, Redattore Di “Giustizia”), Tamara Oberlander, Katja Bennefeld, Eugen Burg, Ernst Behmer, Alfred Haase, Friedrich Ettel; Prod.: Markische Film Gmbh; Pri. Pro.: 23 Dicembre 1932; 35mm. L. Or.: 2389 M. D.: 90′ A 24 F/S.
Film Notes
“The sound film made its debut in Germany in 1929, but Asta Nielsen was reluctant to try the medium, feeling that the stage rather than the screen was the place for theatrical dialogue. In 1932, however, she agreed to play the role of Vera Holgk in Unmógliche liebe (Impossible Love, directed by Erich Waschneck). According to The Silent Muse, the original novel dealt with a middle-aged woman artist who falls in love with an elderly sculptor, marries him, and lives happily. In the film version the sculptor became a young man with a deranged wife, and the “impossible love” ends tragically. Once bitten, twice shy: Asta Nielsen retired from films. She continued to live in Germany until 1936, when she returned to Copenhagen – not before, she claimed, refusing an offer from the Fuhrer himself to head her own studio”.
Robert C. Allen, Asta Nielsen. The Sileni Muse, “Sight & Sound”, Jg. 42, n. 4, 1973, S. 208