New Year's Eve (1924 film)

New Year's Eve
Directed byLupu Pick
Written byCarl Mayer
Produced byLupu Pick
StarringEugen Klöpfer
Edith Posca
CinematographyKarl Hasselmann
Guido Seeber
Edited byLuise Heilborn-Körbitz
Music byKlaus Pringsheim Sr.
Production
company
Rex-Film GmbH
Distributed byUniversum Film AG
Release date
  • 3 January 1924 (1924-01-03)
Running time
66 and 74 minutes
CountryGermany / German Reich
LanguageSilent film

New Year's Eve (German: Sylvester: Tragödie einer Nacht) is a 1924 German silent Kammerspielfilm directed by Lupu Pick and written by Carl Mayer. It was filmed in 1923 and premiered in Berlin on 4 January 1924. The film is known to be one of the earliest examples of a kammerspielfilm and was innovative in its extensive use of "entfesselte Kamera", using tracking and gliding techniques as opposed to keeping the camera stationary. Like Pick's previous films, New Year's Eve does not use intertitles.