That it's no longer on YouTube was a big reason why I made this pic spam, and I'm thrilled you enjoy it!
Still a hilarious screenshot, lol!
I know.:) Also, either they found some actual tall guys, or that was some adroit camera positioning, but the size difference here really works, whereas both in Der König und sein Narr and Die preußische Hochzeit, the tall fellows aren't that much taller than the actors playing FW.
Did that really happen? or is it just so we can admire Jan Niklas I'd always got the impression that people got beheaded with their clothes on.
To quote eye witness Pastor Besser from my write up here: The late departed talked little, but hidden in his soul happened a lot, and he listened to all speeches attentively. It is not a little thing to allow yourself be prepared for your death, to fall from the height of secular happiness to the abyss, and more, to say goodbye, to enter your spot of execution, to face the executioner, to listen to the unchanged death sentence, to remove your own clothing and to face your death.
Now, maybe the clothing removed was just the uniform jacket (not least because of the collar) and waistcoat; as I recall from my French Revolution movies, the men are usually depicted in their shirts sans waistcoats and jackets. But it might also be they went for a complete naked upper body - not in the French Revolution, mind, but with such ancien regime individual executions for the nobility, because then said bodies could be redressed in their clothing without blood stains on them. However the case may be, I think Mildred is right that the main reason why no previous screen Katte got to remove his shirt is that they didn't have as good a body as Jan Niklas. He also got a nude scene a few years later as young Peter in "Peter the Great". No screencaps, but here he is in costume:
Older Peter was played by Maximilian Schell, i.e. screen SD's brother.
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Date: 2022-01-20 11:30 am (UTC)Still a hilarious screenshot, lol!
I know.:) Also, either they found some actual tall guys, or that was some adroit camera positioning, but the size difference here really works, whereas both in Der König und sein Narr and Die preußische Hochzeit, the tall fellows aren't that much taller than the actors playing FW.
Did that really happen? or is it just so we can admire Jan Niklas I'd always got the impression that people got beheaded with their clothes on.
To quote eye witness Pastor Besser from my write up here:
The late departed talked little, but hidden in his soul happened a lot, and he listened to all speeches attentively. It is not a little thing to allow yourself be prepared for your death, to fall from the height of secular happiness to the abyss, and more, to say goodbye, to enter your spot of execution, to face the executioner, to listen to the unchanged death sentence, to remove your own clothing and to face your death.
Now, maybe the clothing removed was just the uniform jacket (not least because of the collar) and waistcoat; as I recall from my French Revolution movies, the men are usually depicted in their shirts sans waistcoats and jackets. But it might also be they went for a complete naked upper body - not in the French Revolution, mind, but with such ancien regime individual executions for the nobility, because then said bodies could be redressed in their clothing without blood stains on them. However the case may be, I think Mildred is right that the main reason why no previous screen Katte got to remove his shirt is that they didn't have as good a body as Jan Niklas. He also got a nude scene a few years later as young Peter in "Peter the Great". No screencaps, but here he is in costume:
Older Peter was played by Maximilian Schell, i.e. screen SD's brother.