Unter der Laterne

⭐ Featured Review

"Gerhard Lamprecht is one of the most unjustly forgotten of the directors of the German golden age. He is rarely remembered for any film other than Emil und die Detektive (1931) and even that people seem reluctant to credit to him, preferring to believe that it was really the work of Billy Wilder (who wrote the scenario). Yet Lamprecht was a fine director, very ably backed by the cinematographer Hasselmann who worked with him on all his films. His films are strongly in the German naturalist tradition (neue Sachligkeit) with a strongly "social realist" feel and an imaginative highly im..."