Explodigger 1010 (Sprengbagger 1010)

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

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!"