... because all guilt takes revenge on earth
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| Original title | ... because all guilt takes revenge on earth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | about 60 minutes |
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| Director | Stellan Rye |
| script | Hanns Heinz Ewers |
| production | Franz Vogel for Eiko-Film (Berlin) |
| camera | Paul Adler |
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... because all guilt takes revenge on earth is a German silent film drama by Stellan Rye from 1913.
action
The young and a little naive conservatory student Grete Rothe one day met a significantly older, signed gentleman. His cosmopolitanism, his old man charm and his aristocratic origins impress her so much that she gets involved in a love affair with this Baron Rüttersheim. Little does she know that the married man sees her only as a toy, as a nice change in his love affair. Left behind seduced by the extremely poorly behaved nobleman, Grete sees her honor defiled and believes that she can only restore her good reputation by seeking suicide in the water.
However, the young artist is rescued and, as the coincidence of the film would have it, gets to know the wife of the nefarious lover of all people. She takes them into her house, her husband is currently on an overseas voyage lasting several months. Frau Baronin hires Grete as a partner, and a little later the girl meets Rüttersheim's grown-up son Paul. The eighteen-year-old falls in love with her quickly. Grete accepts these infatuations but does not return them. When their seducer returns home, they both stand face to face as if moved by thunder. Despite his shabby behavior, Grete again falls for the old lecher.
Paul, who desperately wants more from Grete, is not pushed aside completely, but is kept at a distance. Before long the Baroness finds out everything about her unfaithful husband's affair with her companion. Angry she chases Grete Rothe out of the house. But now Grete forges a perfidious plan of revenge and also uses Paul who is hanging on her lips. True to the saying “The guilt of the fathers takes revenge on the children”, it is not the old baron who dies in the end, but rather his innocent son. Standing by Paul's corpse, the grief-stricken Rüttersheim regrets his unhappy behavior towards Grete.
Production notes
... because all guilt takes revenge on earth was created in the Komet-Film-Atelier in Berlin Müllerstraße 182. The four-act social drama with a length of about 1100 meters cost 1526 Reichsmarks , passed the film censorship on August 6th, 1913 and became on October 10th, 1913 premiered in Austria-Hungary. A week later, on October 17, 1913, the German premiere also took place.
Stellan Rye also created the film structures.
criticism
“Hans Heinz Ewers named his second film drama after this Goethean word and carried it out with great poetic consistency. He has succeeded in drawing the main female figure with rare beauty, who one day runs so carelessly into the nets of a seducer, is briefly deceived by glamor and well-being and just as soon disappointed when she sees herself abandoned and her unknown gallant is otherwise declared bound. (…) The drama has a seldom gripping effect, a portrayal of morals drawn by a real poet, staged by a brilliant director, but also played by good actors. Grete Berger grows from small, meaningless beginnings in the first act into enormously great artistic moments. "