Douglas Sirk

Hans Detlef Sierck alias Douglas Sirk is a realizer and scenario writer of cinema born in Germany but installed with Hollywood as of the Thirties (April 26th 1897 Hamburg, Germany - January 14th 1987 Lugano, Suisse). He was also director with the Théâtre.

Its first films carried out in Germany are signed Detlef Sierck .

The narrative structure at Douglas Sirk

The melodramas of Douglas Sirk are based mainly on the antitheses to underline pathetic situations. Douglas Sirk opposes the hypocritical city to the natural countryside, the individual at the company, the men with the women, the White against the Blacks, the rich person with the poor. One of its fundamental oppositions is that of the character wavering and tragic with a stable character.

Esthetics sirkienne

If a stylistic feature is characteristic of the work of Sirk, they is well its colors. Those are baroques, hot, excessive, with the image of the upheavals of the characters and the situations. Its colors of predilection are it pink and the red (which represent for him rage of living and sexual pang of hunger) and the yellow (typically artficielle color which evokes the importance of appearances). To these hot colors, Sirk opposes tons them of blue for atmospheres noctures. Finally, it uses the purple one or the lilac to add a value sentimenale and nostalgic to the account.

Sirk also uses the decorations in manner symbolic system. According to Sirk, the staircases evoke the desire of the protagonists to rise and dominate their life. The also affectionate realizer mirrors, because one sees there falling the masks or allows to return the multiplied image of loneliness. It also uses the windows, because it marks a pause in the account, a pathetic punctuation in the account: " the woman with the window is a passive witness, located at the frontality of the world closed, interior, and outside world, with the limit of the family unit and social universe, but - though it looks at outside - it does not cross this limit, it does not cease belonging to the domestic circle which simultaneously protects it and " locks up it;

Catalog of films

as a realizer

  • 1934 : Zwei Geniuses
  • 1935: Das Mädchen vom Moorhof
  • 1935 : Der Eingebildete Kranke
  • 1935: Dreimal Ehe
  • 1935 : April, April!
  • 1935 : Stützen der Gesellschaft
  • 1936: the Song of the memory
  • 1936: 'T was een april
  • 1936: the Ninth symphony ( Schlußakkord )
  • 1936: Das Hofkonzert
  • 1937 : Paramatta, bagne women ( Zu neuen Ufern )
  • 1937: Habanera
  • 1938: final Agreement
  • 1939: Boefje
  • 1943 : Hitler' S Madman
  • 1944: the Consent ( Summer Storm )
  • 1946: has Scandal in Paris
  • 1947: Of the girls disappears ( Lured )
  • 1948: the Man with the horn-rimmed spectacleses ( Sleep, My Love )
  • 1949: Jenny, marked woman ( Shockproof )
  • 1949: Slightly French
  • 1950 : the mysterious Submarine ( Mystery Submarine )
  • 1951: the First legion ( The First Legion )
  • 1951: Storm on the hill ( Thunder one the Hill )
  • 1951: The Lady Country Off
  • 1951: Weekend with Father
  • 1952: No Room for the Groom
  • 1952: Which thus saw my beautiful? ( Has Anybody Seen My Gall? )
  • 1953: Meet Me At the Fair
  • 1953: Take Me to Town
  • 1953: Desired All I
  • 1954: Taza, wire of Cochise ( Taza, Its off Cochise )
  • 1954: the splendid Secrecy ( Magnificent Obsession )
  • 1954: the Sign of pagan the ( Sign off the Pagan )
  • 1955: Captain Mystery ( Captain Lightfoot )
  • 1955: All that the sky allows ( All That Heaven Allows )
  • 1956: Demain is another day ( There' S Always Tomorrow )
  • 1956: Writes on wind ( Written one the Wind )
  • 1956: Wings of the hope ( Battle Hymn )
  • 1957: Lovers of Salzburg ( Interlude )
  • 1958: the Round of the paddle ( The Tarnished Angels )
  • 1958: Time to like and time to die ( has Time to Love and has Time to Die )
  • 1959: Mirage of the life ( Imitation off Life )
  • 1975: Sprich zur to mir wie der Regen
  • 1977: Sylvesternacht
  • 1979 : Bourbon Street Blues

as a scenario writer

  • 1936 : the Song of the memory
  • 1936: the Ninth symphony ( Schlußakkord )
  • 1936: Das Hofkonzert
  • 1937 : Liebling der Matrosen
  • 1937: Paramatta, bagne women ( Zu neuen Ufern )
  • 1939: Boefje
  • 1944 : the Consent ( Summer Storm )
  • 1977: Sylvesternacht
  • 1979 : Bourbon Street Blues

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