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Auction History Result 2t089 FERRYMAN MARIA German program 1936 Sybille Schmitz, Death and the Maiden, romantic fantasy! Date Sold 1/7/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Film Program (measures 9" x 11 1/2" [23 x 29 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Fahrmann Maria (released in English-speaking countries as "Ferryman Maria" and in the U.S. as "Death and the Maiden"), the 1936 Frank Wisbar (billed as "Frank Wysbar") German fantasy romantic melodrama (a movie far ahead of its time, about a ferry that is the only way to get to a small village, and when the old ferryman dies, Death appears to take him into the afterlife, and then a young lady who is a drifter shows up and takes the job guiding the ferry, and she picks up a wounded man, and Death appears again to take him, and the girl has a contest with Death to try to save the wounded man) starring Sybille Schmitz (in the title role as Maria), Aribert Mog, Carl de Vogt, Peter Voss (as Death), Gerhard Bienert, and Eduard Wenk. This movie was very unusual for Nazi Germany at this time, both because it was a fantasy, but also because it did not embody "Nazi values". It was co-written by a man in favor with the Nazi party, which may account for why it was made and why it was not censored. The director, Frank Wisbar, had worked Karl Dreyer on "Vampyr", and also with Arnold Fanck, and he might have had a very promising career, but soon after this movie was made, he went to the U.S., and unlike many of his countrymen who went on to successful careers, Wisbar was more like Hugo Haas, only getting work at a Poverty Row studio. He remade this movie in the U.S. in 1946 with PRC as "Strangler of the Swamp", but it was not a major success, and he made only a few lesser movies in the U.S. through the 1950s, and then returned to Germany, where he made some movies there. Still, this is the last of the German Expressionist movies made before World War II, and it certainly deserves to be "rediscovered". Finally, note that it seems certain that Ingmar Bergman must have seen this movie before creating his "The Seventh Seal", because not only is there a strong similarity between the two movies, but in this movie, the girl plays dice with Death and loses! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the 8 pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are 4 pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended). Condition: fair to good. The program has two punch holes in the center of the left of the cover and in the corresponding area on the interior pages, because the program was stored in a 2-ring binder. Learn More about condition grades 
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