The company gets married (1914)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The company is getting married |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | approx. 42 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Wilhelm |
| script |
Walter Turszinsky Jacques Burg |
| production |
Paul Davidson for PAGU, Berlin |
| camera | Friedrich Weinmann |
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The company marries is an early German silent film - comedy by Carl Wilhelm from 1914 with Ernst Lubitsch in the lead role .
action
Purveyor to the court Mayer has a shop for women's fashion. Apprentice Moritz Abramowsky, who once came to Berlin from the provinces to make his fortune here, is his best man. As a shrewd salesman, his shrewdness has already talked many customers into something - even if it was a few sizes of clothing that was too big that cost more - and thus increased profit. While Mayer doesn't know too much about his own business and devotes himself to other things such as the world of women, it is Moritz and the pretty mannequin Trude who "throw" the shop with determination, heart, commitment and lots of cunning.
After Mayer stumbles from one awkwardness into the next and also annoys his mannequin, Trude is fed up and quits. Moritz does the same, and soon the company threatens to go bankrupt. But finally everything turns out for the better. Mayer has an understanding and brings both back. Then he proposes to Trude - the company is getting married.
Production notes
The company is getting married at the end of 1913 in the Union-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Tempelhof . The three-act film was censored on January 7, 1914 and premiered on January 21, 1914 in the Friedrichstrasse UT. In November 1914, The Company was getting married in the United States. In order to further exploit the film after the war, it was submitted to the censorship again on September 1, 1921 and only shortened by five film meters. In 1914 and 1921 he was banned from young people.
Karl Freund assisted cameraman Friedrich Weinmann . The later film director Edmund Edel made the drawings to be seen in the film.
The company gets married was an enormous success with the public and marked Lubitsch's breakthrough as a film comedian. The film ran for 14 days in sold out houses in all nine UT Lichtspiele in Berlin and for another three weeks in the Union-Palast Kurfürstendamm. Thereupon director Wilhelm and the producing PAGU decided to shoot an unofficial sequel with The Pride of the Company . In this film, which opened six months later, Lubitsch, the leading actor in The Marriage Company, played , among other roles, a similarly structured character. Also the majority of the rest of the cast was taken.
In 1930, Carl Wilhelm shot a slightly different remake under the same title . It was to be his only sound film and at the same time his last film director.
criticism
In the Lichtbild stage reads: “This film idea in the whole way it was tackled and carried out is a work of art of the very highest order, will begin its triumphal march and spread sunshine. We can only use the banal word 'great' and calmly leave the critical probe aside. 'The company is getting married' is a happily filmed reaching into clothing, a malicious, satyrical and cheeky step into the sacred spaces of the sphere of influence of fashion, where the boss makes himself rich, where the traveler orders, the customers obey, the '44 figure 'Cut the figure and try the tasting mummy. To stay in the picture, we can only say: the picture is dead chic, the hit of the season, Nouveauté 1914. "
As expected , the Yiddish humor of its German-Jewish makers, seen in Die Firma Heatzen as well as in Der Stolz der Firma , was sharply criticized during the Nazi era and scourged as “alien to the Germans” in an anti-Semitic manner. Oskar Kalbus wrote about this in 1935: “On the other hand, it must seem quite incomprehensible to us today that during the difficult times of the war the cinema audience cheered an actor who behaved with alien naughtiness in every situation: Ernst Lubitsch. In the film 'The Company Marries' (1914) he, a little provincial, rises to the dizzying heights of clothing power, and in 'Pride of the Company' (1914) we follow the career of an apprentice who in turn comes from the provinces comes to the capital and becomes the boss's son-in-law as a vigilante clerk . "
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1913-1914 (= Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 1445511-0 ). Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1969, p. 446.
- ^ Photo stage . No. 4, dated January 24, 1914.
- ^ Oskar Kalbus : On the becoming of German film art. 1st part: The silent film. Cigarette Picture Service, Berlin 1935, p. 34.