Around the World in Eighty Days

About Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1919 German adventure comedy silent film directed and produced by Richard Oswald, based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name. It stars Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, and Reinhold Schünzel. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin on 20 March 1919.

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Around the World in Eighty Days (German: Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen) is a 1919 German adventure comedy silent film directed and produced by Richard Oswald, based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name. It stars Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, and Reinhold Schünzel. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin on 20 March 1919.

The film was considered lost until 2021 when a print was found at the EYE film Institute in the Netherlands, and was subsequently restored.

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Plot

In order to win a bet, British gentleman Phileas Fogg attempts to circle the globe in eighty days, along with his French servant, Passepartout. Fogg is wrongly suspected of having robbed the Bank of England and faces the risk of arrest throughout his journey.

Cast

Conrad Veidt - Phileas Fogg

Anita Berber - Aouda

Reinhold Schünzel - Archibald Corsican

Eugen Rex - Passepartout

Max Gülstorff - Detektiv Fix

Käte Oswald - Nemea

Paul Morgan - John Forster

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Notable quotes

“Mais aux grandes douleurs le ciel mêle incessamment les grandes joies, et il réservait au professeur Lidenbrock une satisfaction égale à ses désespérants ennuis.”
— But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.
“L’homme est ainsi fait, que sa santé est un effet purement négatif; une fois le besoin de manger satisfait, on se figure difficilement les horreurs de la faim; il faut les éprouver, pour les comprendre.”
— Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
“A quoi bon discuter une proposition semblable, quand la force peut détruire les meilleurs arguments.”
— What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?
“On ne saurait empêcher l'équilibre de produire ses effets. On peut braver les lois humaines, mais non résister aux lois naturelles.”
— We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
“L’homme qui "sait" réussit là où d’autres végéteraient et périraient inévitablement.”
— An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
“Les poëtes sont comme les proverbes : l’un est toujours là pour contredire l’autre.”
— Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

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