The ideal wife (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The ideal wife |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | restored version: 16 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hanns Heinz Ewers ? |
| script |
Hanns Heinz Ewers Marc Henry |
| production | German Bioscop GmbH |
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The ideal wife is a German silent film - comedy of 1913 written by Hanns Heinz Ewers . The later director Ernst Lubitsch made his first known film appearance as an actor.
action
The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, aunts, sisters and cousins. You're annoyed by his teasing. Even with domestic workers it is perceived as a disturbance.
His disappointed expression brightens a little when he sees an advertisement in the newspaper for the "Krispin marriage agency for meticulous gentlemen". He leaves a suicide note and goes to the matchmaker's office. He complains to him of his suffering with the grim women. He is looking for a lovely woman who always smiles.
The doll brought in by Krispin has a permanent dreamy smile, but does not help him when he chokes on a bone while eating. In order to break her constant smile, Paul disguises himself as a burglar and wants to scare her in her bed, but he cannot annoy her and only reaps her blissful permanent grin.
He incapacitates her with a sleeping pill and takes her back to Berlin in a large transport box. In a corsetry and bridal wear store, she can now smile as a mannequin.
background
The film was based on a burlesque by Hanns Heinz Ewers and Marc Henry with actors from the Deutsches Theater Berlin . The first demonstrable showing of the film took place on September 19, 1913 in the Prague cinema "Bio Schwan".
The film was long thought to be lost and was rediscovered during collections in the German Federal Archives in Koblenz . The restored version was shown for the first time as part of the retrospective of the Berlinale 2000 . The first release on DVD took place in 2016 as part of the Edition Filmmuseum series as a bonus on an edition of the film The Student of Prague from the same production year.
Web links
- The ideal wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The ideal wife at filmportal.de
- The ideal wife at The German Early Cinema Database
- The cinema debut from 1913 is part of the retrospective "Artificial People" in Der Tagesspiegel on February 9, 2000