Sprengbagger 1010 (1929) - full transcript

Sprengbagger 1010 came to the cinemas

on 30-11-1929 with a length

of 2,712m (ca. 132 min.).

Shortly after the film was

shortened with 45 minutes and

provided with new intertitels.

Only in this version does the film

survive, a copy is located in the

Bundesarchive-Filmarchive, Berlin.

The original music by Walter Gronostay

for orchestra, vocal choir, sirens and

oxygen tanks...

...has survived as original manuscript

at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

The music was newly adapted...

...for the surviving film version

and recorded wiith the WDR radio

orchestra Cologne in March 2011.

Sprengbagger 1010

("Explodigger 1010")

Production:

Photographic direction:

At the camera:

Sets:

Recording direction:

Direction and script:

Interpreters:

Director March...

Karl Hartmannn, engineer...

Olga Lossen, his assistant...

Camilla von Einerm,

lady of Nilsenhöh...

Old Hartman,

mill tenant at Nilsenhöh...

Inspector Bachmann...

Town mayor...

Distribution:

Karl Hartman, company engineer

Olga Lossen, construction designer

"All night I've worked on

that damned explodigger."

"This fusion of digger and

explosive machine is amazing!"

"You are a genius with

machines, Hartmann!"

"Oh... I have had enough of this

den of machines, really enough."

"But without this den,

y o u could not live!

"No, no... I must breathe air again,

Wiesen... See woods, feel nature."

Closed for meeting.

"Forgive me, mr. director...

a most important affair!"

"Engineer Hartmann must come!"

"With this new explodigger

we could dig up the largest

coal deposits right away!"

Meeting room

"Think of your future!"

"Excellent work! Start with

construction straight away!"

"I must unwind... I can't

look at another machine!"

"Hartmann!"

"That is completely impossible now!"

"The man is overworked!"

"Then it will also

work without him!"

"Hello, Grandma!"

"You come just at the right time!"

"Nice, that you remember

your old home again!"

"I hope, that Hartmann

becomes reasonable again!"

"I trust highly in

your female diplomacy!"

"Where do I find engineer Hartmann?"

We hereby request you to return

to service by tomorrow afternoon

12 o'clock. Otherwise we're forced,

...to declare your termination without

notice and place the direction of the

diggerconstruction in other hands.

"I accept the dismissal."

"Lord... but that is brown coal!"

"You find that everywhere here!"

"I think, you don't know,

what this find means!"

"You don't understand our time.

Romance is dead. Technology lives."

"I only think of our luck!"

"They should deploy my digger here!"

"And what do you want here?"

"A nice surprise for miss Lossen!"

"Now you are back again,

where you belong!"

"I've... We have missed you much!"

"I had a real longing

for this damned machine!"

"A very idyllic place, this!"

Camilla von Einerm sells the estate

Nilsenhöh belonging to her with all

structures for a selling price of

RM 1,500,000.- (in words one million

five hundred thousand Reichsmark)

to the Amalgamated Caroline Factory Ltd.

"We offer you a very high price!"

"...certainly - - one

doesn't like to leave..."

The Town Meeting

had more understanding

for the director's proposal.

"Call for Town Meeting

concerning the offer from

the Caroline Factory..."

Town meeting

"Now they will soon be united."

"Who doesn't want to sell,

keeps his lands!"

"We offer all of you a price,

far above the worth!"

"Miss, take a telegram

please, urgent..."

"After forceless discussion concluded

sale of several farm lands."

The field died, the machine

triumphed over the plough.

"The coach!"

"Her ladyship asks for

an immediate visit."

"Camilla, you must understand

me: The machine is my world!"

"But my heart belongs to you!"

Director March, Nilsenhöh. Explodigger

reaches Nilsenhöh by goods train 187

near midnight. Olga Lossen.

"Finally we are ready!"

"The digger is coming!"

"Unfortunately, we must place

the detonation line for

the bust through the park!"

"You must give me time, I must

first get used to all of this!"

"We will see you tomorrow evening

at our engagement feast, won't we?"

"Excuse me please, duty calls!"

"Excuse me, duty calls!"

"I hope, mrs. Hartmann, that

you've now decided to sell too?"

"A nice, round sum, is what

we're offering you here!"

"We are living in a different age now!"

"I don't want to know of this age!"

"The Hartmanns have been on

this mill for 300 years! Here

I was born, here I want to die."

"No-one can stop the force

of the machines."

"I hope, you will yet

change your mind."

"I've just had a telephone message

from the workplace, that we

are stuck with the assembly."

"Hartmann should go

straight to work."

"The short interruption

really pains me..."

"Must you really go out?"

"Poor friend, you cannot even

get engaged uninterrupted!"

"The two of us have fallen to

the machine: It won't let us go!"

"The two of us belong together!"

"The mill is burning!"

"The digger is running!"

"We will proceed with the

detonations at once!"

"Prepare work in detonation area!"

"Mirror signal stand by!"

"Machine to

maximum revolutions!"

"Ready?"

"Ready!"

"Ready?"

"Ready!"

"After the third horn signal,

commence detonation!"

Attention!

Detonation area!

Mortal danger!

"A terrible accident

has happened!"

Where once a few people idyllically

dreamed away their lives...

...now is raised a huge machination

of strange beauty, giving bread and

work to hundreds of thousands!

The end.