After a frank confession by his wife, a doctor is called to see a dying patient. The cause of the night brings him to meet an old friend, a pianist, who tells him of a mysterious ball where he is due to perform. Based on the book "Traumnovelle" ("Rhapsody: A Dream Novel") by Arthur Schnitzler, which was the inspiration for the film Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
Karlheinz Böhm Erika Pluhar Kurt Sowinetz Gertrud Kückelmann Helga Papouschek Jutta Schwarz Iris Schattschneider Emil Stöhr Wolfgang Lesowsky Wolfgang Weiser Erika Kambach Carlo Böhm Mitzi Tesar Günther Bauer Peter Voß Rolf Arnold Peter Schratt Gerhard Koska Wladimir Wilkosz Heinz Nick Rudolf Strobl Rudi Schippel Otto Kretschmeier Gerti Tenger Dolores Schmidinger Paul Hart Maria Martina Sylvia Weiss Josef Krastel Show All…
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While I prefer the beautiful, haunting sights and sounds and extra creepy aspects of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, this German TV version is also really good. Very dreamy and tense at times. Woulda got a higher score only it died a death the last ten minutes. Thanks for the heads up, Ash!
In my adult life I have probably watched Eyes Wide Shut more than any other movie, (maybe The Shining rivals it for that title). I have read a shit ton of Kubrick books, but I never knew this movie was waiting for me all this time!!!! I must not have very good reading comprehension because there is NO WAY this movie was not brought up at some point in one of the myriad of books on Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut I’ve read.
This was so exciting and amazing to see. This was kind of like watching a 1930’s version of Persona.
Overly literal, but who the fuck cares?! It follows the novella more closely than EWS by letting us hear…
Another adaptation of the 1926 novella by Arthur Schnitzler. It’s shorter compared to Stanley Kubrick‘s version. but not as a great as his version 😒 .
Tramnovelle is much shorter but hits all the main points as Eyes Wide Shut. It's amazes me how similar they feel in terms of some of the sets and even framing. Eyes Wide Shut uses London for its New York setting to give some of the buildings an older look while still set in the present, and Traumnovelle is set in Austria in the early 1900s just like the novella. Everything feels similar yet so different, especially the score that gives it a more dreamlike quality. For an old made-for-TV movie, it doesn't look bad at all. The camera movements are quite simple, but it doesn't need to be fancy for a film that relies on dialogue and a great story.
Other thoughts:
・Erika Pluhar is stunning.
・beautiful red hair!
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اقتباس وفادارانه ی از رمان آرتور شیتسلر، داستان رویا، که با نسخه کوبریک بسیار متفاوته. در مقایسه با فیلم کوبریک، اقتباس وولفگانگ گلوک به دلیل شرایط سخت تولید توی اتریش دهه شصت، کیفیت پروداکشن پایین تری داره و حتی در مواردی به نظر تئاتری و خام دستانه میاد. از طرف دیگه ولی فیلم در مدت زمان کمترش ، متناسب با حجم رمان، توضیحات کمتری هم درباره رویداد های داستان، از جمله ماهیت اورجی و خودکشی زن، میده و این باعث میشه کیفیت اسرار آمیز وقایع حفظ بشه.
I suppose in contrast to Eyes Wide Shut (the film based on the same source material), Traumnovelle may seem unpolished and inconsequential. While a retelling of the story thirty years later makes this film lose its incomparability, it withholds the undeniable mystery of the source material. What is this mysterious world Arthur Schnitzler writes of?
The film takes the complex direction of interpreting the protagonist's inner conflicts rather than the overall atmosphere. It's far more dreamlike than it is dark, sinister, and foreboding. The soundtrack is a soft twinkling noise, it's almost soothing, leaving the audience to question whether the events on screen actually happened, or if they're just a dream.
I feels heavily rushed, but once again, that's probably…
This was the first adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's novel with the same name (Dream Story). The second adaptation is the famous "Eyes Wide Shut"!
One of the rare times when the American remake is superior to the European one in all aspects. Although I genuinely liked this unknown German version, I can see how much of a difference a perfectionist director can make. However, having a much shorter runtime and a smaller production didn't cause this movie to collapse into pieces and it managed to tell the story and present its concept decently (not perfectly). It still does not have enough power to stay in mind for long. One example is the Masked Ball Scene, which was the most amazing part in Kubrick's movie, but possibly the weakest in Glück's in my opinion.
Overall, considering it made for television, it's satisfying and enjoyable. Worth a try specially if you're a fan of the story and its mysterious atmosphere.
At Home - PLEX
Wow. An Austrian adaptation of the same Schnitzler story that Eyes Wide Shut is based on and starring my man Karlheinz Böhm!
Traumnovelle hits all the same beats as Eyes Wide Shut but does so at a much more rapid pace, the opening argument with his wife I thought was terrific and his night long journey was very layered and I loved the thought process narration which was very effective in the films story telling. Perhaps the secrey masked party could have been raunchier and the password could have been 'Fidelio' instead of 'Denmark' but besides that and an ending which sort of called for a bigger emotional breakdown pound for pound I liked turn of the century Vienna better than a nearing a new millennium NYC and Böhm > Cruise. Highly recommended especially for EWS fans who are curious to see an earlier version that uses the text as a guide.
A fascinating precursor to Eyes Wide Shut based on the same Arthur Schnitzler source novel, with a far more whimsical and surrealist tone than the darker, more conspiracy-laden Kubrick interpretation. That said, they're extremely close in terms of plot and dialogue, with the always excellent Karlheinz Böhm doing a good job as the confounded physician embarking on a peculiar nocturnal journey after his wife's discussion of imagined infidelity. On its own terms this may be a slight curio, but it's also stylish and strange with a nice fairy tale atmosphere that works like a charm late at night.
Impossible to talk about this without comparing it to Eyes Wide Shut--an adaptation of the same novel, but set in Arthur Schnitzler's original 1920s Austria, rather than Kubrick's 1999 New York City.
Beyond the new setting, this film tracks with Kubrick's film perfectly, following it beat for beat (even on very minor details, such as the daughter's homework assignment). Endlessly fascinating, and I cannot recommend it strongly enough to fans of Eyes Wide Shut.
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"No dream is entirely a dream."
Traumnovelle is a 1969 Austrian TV movie based on Arthur Schnitzler's novel of the same name. The novel was more famously adapted 30 years later by Stanley Kubrick as Eyes Wide Shut. Being a massive fan of Kubrick's film, I just had to watch this one to see how similar they were. The film looks quite good for a TV movie and the performances are quite wonderful. I was actually surprised how much in common it has with Eyes Wide Shut. Traumnovelle is an enjoyable little film and one I'd recommend to any fans of Kubrick's adaptation of the story. (It's currently on YouTube for anyone who is interested and is under 75 minutes.) 7/10
This movie is based off the same book as Eyes Wide Shut is (Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, please read it it’s so amazing) and it was really cool and interesting to see the actual remake of the original story. Although Kubrick’s adaptation is 10 times better than this, it’s still a good watch and I highly recommend it. The acting isn’t great and neither is the design or costumes, but it’s still fun and interesting. If you love Eyes Wide Shut as much as I do, please watch it, it’s free on youtube and has subtitles.
