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    The Erl King

    Marie-Louise IRIBE 1930 France Fiction b/w 70min French DCP
    This early sound film was her second directorial effort and uses cinematic techniques to visualize Goethe's classic 1782 ballad. As her first and only work in sound film, it retains many characteristics of silent cinema, notably in the acting style, limited dialogue and emphasis on visuals. The result was a surrealist-inflected adaptation that makes beautiful use of double-exposure, which lends a dreamlike quality to the fairies that the folkloric Erl King conjures up in the forest.

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    Marie-Louise IRIBE

    A pioneer filmmaker, actress and founder of a production company, she was one of the few women directors who made the difficult transition from silent to sound film in the early 1930s.

    Marie-Louise IRIBE

    1930 The Erl King魔王

    1928 Hara-Kiri

    Director: Marie-Louise Iribe

    Scriptwriter: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Marie-Louise Iribe, Peter Paul Brauer, Pierre Lestringuez

    catherine.wang@diplomatie.gouv.fr

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