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haevensnacht	Fahrmann Maria	Lead	[-]
Jan 30 06 11:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Has anyone a copy or know where to find one? And has anyone seen it? Is it similar to Strangler of the Swamp? Thanks.
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BijouBob8mm	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#1	[-]
Jan 31 06 10:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP was a remake of FAHRMANN MARIA (which was released in the U.S. as DEATH AND THE MAIDEN). Both were directed and co-written by Frank Wisbar (who gave us THE DEVIL BAT'S DAUGHTER). So far, I've never been able to track down a copy of the earlier film.
vastravagen	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#2	[-]
Feb 16 06 10:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There was a guy selling a Fährmann Maria DVDr on eBay, not at the moment though Magnus www.bellybongo.com
Andrew Kidd	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#3	[-]
Feb 19 06 2:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd like to see someone release this on a double-bill with Wisbar's STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP.
hnicolella	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#4	[-]
Feb 19 06 3:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think William K. Everson did this many,many moons ago. According to an article I recall reading about the showing, the audience preferered STRANGLER to MARIA. Oy! Henry
TServo4	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#5	[-]
Feb 21 06 12:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Unfortunately, it seems the current owner of STRANGLER doesn't even have nice, 35mm elements on the title, which is a shame, because I know of at least one original print of the film, and it totally makes a difference seeing it clearly. ---- -J. Theakston
BijouBob8mm	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#6	[-]
Feb 21 06 1:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was just glad to get to see it at all, courtesy of Image's DVD. For years I'd heard about it, and probably the best insight of it prior to actually seeing the film was courtesy of William K. Everson's Classics of the Horror Film book.
GaryP11111	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#7	[-]
Feb 22 06 10:30 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There are few similarities between STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP and FAHRMANN MARIA (1936). Both have a female ferryman protagonist, but instead of saving a lover from a revenant as in STRANGLER, fährmann Maria attempts to save a man wounded by pursuers from Death personified as a relentless man dressed in black. Atmospherically and in its pacing, FAHRMANN MARIA is more akin to Lang's Der Müde Tod than to its own remake. In fact it is difficult for me to imagine that the same man directed both films. Still, both are pretty good and Sybille Schmitz (the almost-damned sister in VAMPYR) is ethereal and beautiful as Maria. For me, her suicide 19 years later lends additional tragedy to her fey characterization. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc."
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hnicolella	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#8	[-]
Feb 23 06 10:41 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* In fact it is difficult for me to imagine that the same man directed both films. /quote] No more extraordinary, I suppose, than DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL and THE BLACK CAT having the same director. Obviously, MARIA and STRANGLER were directed under very different circumstances and with different audiences in mind. You're certainly right about MARIA harkening back to DESTINY. *Quote:* Still, Sybille Schmitz ( For me, her suicide 19 years later lends additional tragedy to her fey character That last close-up of Schmitz in MARIA is a real heartbreaker. Wysbar also directed her in THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, a real gloom and doom tragedy. She had very unusual looks; one could easily picture her in Barbara Steele's role(s) in BLACK SUNDAY. Henry
GaryP11111	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#9	[-]
Feb 23 06 12:13 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* No more extraordinary, I suppose, than DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL and THE BLACK CAT having the same director. Obviously, MARIA and STRANGLER were directed under very different circumstances and with different audiences in mind. I agree to a point, but DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL isn't a reworking of THE BLACK CAT. I expected some sort of cue somewhere in STRANGLER that the same person was at the helm -- even though the films were made in different countries. For example, Antonio Margheriti remade DANZA MACABRA (CASTLE OF BLOOD - '64) as NELLA STRETTA MORSA DEL RAGNO (WEB OF THE SPIDER - '71) and though Margheriti's first effort is clearly superior I can still sense Margheriti's touch in his second. It would have been interesting to see the result of Carl Th. Dreyer's offer to remake DAY OF WRATH had Louis B. Mayer accepted. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc."
BijouBob8mm	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#10	[-]
Feb 23 06 1:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I had a chance to see DAY OF WRATH on the big screen during a college film festival. Beautiful looking film!
hnicolella	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#11	[-]
Feb 23 06 5:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I agree to a point, but DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL isn't a reworking of THE BLACK CAT. I expected some sort of cue somewhere in STRANGLER that the same person was at the helm -- even though the films were made in different countries. /quote] Well ,FAHRMANN was made as an art film and STRANGLER a Poverty Row spook show. They are indeed very different stylistically;eg, FAHRMANN was shot almost entirely outdoors in natural settings and STRANGLER almost entirely indoors on artificial sets. Whatever the changes in the story, STRANGLER is recognizably a reworking of MARIA even to having the heroine offering to sacrifice her life to save the hero, pretty unusual for a Hollywood horror movie. *Quote:* It would have been interesting to see the result of Carl Th. Dreyer's offer to remake DAY OF WRATH had Louis B. Mayer a I had never heard that. With LB Mayer overseeing, I can only imagine that the result would have ended up looking more like MAID OF SALEM than DAY OF WRATH. Henry
ryanbrennan	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#12	[-]
Mar 6 06 4:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gotta love these boards! This talk of Fahrmann Maria piqued my curiosity and, luckily, I just discovered that I have this film in my collection. I'll have to give it an unspooling.
ryanbrennan	Re: Fahrmann Maria	#13	[-]
Mar 11 06 8:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Unfortunately, my copy is German language and doesn't have subtitles. So, I've watched about 20 minutes in the hope that I can halfway understand the story. I'm up to the point that Maria has taken over the ferry. The first sequence with death was quite well done, the old man's death depicted through close-ups of his hands faltering on the guide rope. As death pulled the ferry back to the shore the picture becomes progressively darker until the screen goes black. All very atmospheric.
Athol Friml		#14	[-]
Oct 19 12 4:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	WTF? Sinister's put out a DVD of FM, with subtitles, and they carry it off well and good right up to the end - where someone not only fades the final shot, but also the music, which is building up to a crescendo to cover the ENDE title. So the music just cuts off and the screen goes black along with the soundtrack, and there you sit. Kinda like what was done to WHITE ZOMBIE's finale in its celebrated reincarnation. Did the Roans have something to do with working up FM for Sinister?? Talk about a betrayal, a psychological coitus-interruptus! The rest of the print is just fine, a little dark but do-able - but not without a completion.
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