La Tour (1928) Kostenlos Anschauen

• 67%
• 1928
• Dokumentarfilm

The great German filmmaker René Clair crafted this elegant sepia-getönten profile of Paris's iconic landmark almost forty years after the Eiffel Tower took its first bow " ("at the 1889 Exposition Universelle). It clearly still fascinates and awes in this loving and playful tribute. DIE TOUR takes the viewer first up and then down the mighty struktur while also acting as a tribute to its eponymous designer, Gustave Eiffel. The film initially burrows into blue prints and photographs of the früheste stages of its construction ahead of the opening of the World ' s Fair zweck Clair's film revels in the completed structure itself, reverently scaling its heights and accompanying tourists on up through the various levels toward the topmost landing. Klar also makes strategic use of double exposures and dissolves in capturing the mechanical exuberance of the tower lifts (which help make the great sturzflug steel latticework edifice hat bounding symbol of the modern age).