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Thirty minutes silence at Waldau Castle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Waldau Castle and film noir go so well together, as actor Michail Gvozdenko demonstrates, that not being seen dead there would probably never occur to you.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Published: 24 May 2022 ~ Waldau Castle and film noir make a perfect partnership<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our last visit to Waldau Castle<\/span><\/a> we had the pleasure of watching a 30-minute film noir, Agnes<\/em>, set in 1940s\u2019 K\u00f6nigsberg. Shot in the grounds of K\u00f6nigsberg Cathedral, in the East Prussian countryside and at Waldau castle, whilst the mood of the film and its retrospective authenticity owes a lot to the imaginative screenplay and the cinematographic convention of producing it in black and white, good casting throughout ensures that this silent intertitle movie delivers impact and holds one\u2019s attention from the opening scenes to the end credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot goes something like this: Whilst walking, a young woman, Agnes, (actress Ekaterina Zuravleva) accidently drops a postcard informing her friend that she is content living with her rich aunt. A young chap picks the card up and reads it. Realising that the young woman comes from a rich family he returns the card to her, flirts and hands her his business card. He visits the castle several times where Agnes lives, but her austere aunt sees through the deception; she realises that the man’s intentions are not honourable; he is not in love but is after their money. Agnes, however, refuses to heed her aunt\u2019s advice to stay away from the man. Driven to breaking point by her aunt’s controlling nature, a violent altercation occurs following which Agnes kills her aunt, takes her money and her jewellery and flees from the castle in the company of the man about whose perfidy she has been warned. On the way to the \u2018promised land,\u2019 the man kills her. He gives her a long red scarf to wear, which flows from the open car window and wraps itself around one of the wheels (an allusion to the death of Isadora Duncan, the 1920s’ American dancer). He places her body on the side of the road, is met by a female accomplice and they drive off together gloating over their ill-gotten gains. As they do so, they appear to be planning another hoax, which may be why there is talk of a possible sequel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waldau Castle and film noir make a perfect partnership<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Not unlike the male lead, the scheming opportunist who wheedles his way into the life of the young woman, I, seeing an opportunity to have my photograph taken with Michail Gvozdenko, the lead male actor, was happy to pose with him next to a film publicity poster. You might infer that I would have been a lot happier had I been standing next to the actresses in real life, but if horses were wishes beggars would ride. As it was, I was pleased to \u2018get in on the act\u2019: any man who can wear a trilby in such a way that he would pass unnoticed on a 1940s\u2019 street is someone whom we should all stand next to, at least once in our modern and sadly less elegant lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michail Gvozdenko did an excellent job of convincing us, in or out of trilby, that have Hanomag will seduce. Whether this is true or not you will have to ask the actor, as the Hanomag car that features in the film, which, incidentally, has original K\u00f6nigsberg credentials, is owned by the actor himself. Of course, it does help if you are smooth, suave and sophisticated and always carry a business card!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the costumes and props used in the film are on display at Waldau Castle, together with the medieval-style wall bed in which the deluded and cheated Agnes bumps off her aunt before being heartlessly despatched herself. That\u2019s no way to treat an antique wall bed even less so an ailing aunt, regardless of her readily purloinable fortune. As for the death of Agnes (sigh!), as Leonard Cohen would say, “I came so far for beauty, I left so much behind”<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on Waldau Castle<\/span><\/strong>
It Happened at Waldau Castle<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
Waldau Castle Revisited and the Case of the Asparagus Soup<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
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