20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
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| German title | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| Original title | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Stuart Paton |
| script | Stuart Paton |
| production | Carl Laemmle |
| camera | Eugene Gaudio |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is an American silent film from 1916. Unlike the more famous film version of the same title from 1954, this version is based not only on the novel Jules Verne . Instead, motifs from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Verne's novel The Mysterious Island are interwoven.
action
Captain Nemo uses his submarine Nautilus as a weapon with which he plans to sink all the warships in the world. After one of his attacks, in which he rams the enemy ships, he takes several survivors of a shipwrecked US ship on board the Nautilus. Among them are Professor Aronnax, his daughter and the combative Ned Land. The professor's group was tasked with scientifically investigating rumors about a sea monster. Through Nemo's attack it turns out that the Nautilus is said "monster".
The captain shows the survivors what life is like on the sea floor and finally heads for an exotic island with the Nautilus. In the meantime, a hot air balloon with some soldiers has landed there. The men meet a young woman who is called the "child of nature" and lives alone on the island. One of the soldiers kidnaps nature's child and abducts her onto the yacht of the former colonial officer Denver. The latter visits the island because he exposed the child to nature here years ago after its mother, an Indian princess, fled to suicide from Denver's advances. Plagued by nightmares, Denver now wants to see what has become of the child.
Another of the soldiers from the hot air balloon rushes to the aid of the child of nature. He saves it from the yacht before Nemo destroys it with a torpedo. The captain attacks the ship because he recognizes his mortal enemy in Denver. Flashbacks explain that Nemo is the father of nature's child and husband of the late princess. Overjoyed to have found his lost daughter, Nemo dies, overwhelmed by emotions. His crew buries him at sea, the Nautilus drifts without a leader towards a sea vortex.
background
After little-known silent films from 1905 and 1907, the film was the third movie adaptation of the material. The brothers J. Ernest and George M. Williamson developed an underwater camera especially for the film, which was used to shoot in a specially constructed water tank in Nassau . The groundbreaking underwater images of the time are among the first of their kind.
The film ran in Germany in 1919 under the title Twenty Thousand Meters Under the Sea .
On December 14, 2016, the film was entered into the National Film Registry .
Web links
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Phil Hardy (ed.): The Science Fiction Film Encyclopedia. 100 years of science fiction. Heel Verlag GmbH, Königswinter 1998, ISBN 3-89365-601-4 .
- ↑ jpc.de , accessed on February 3, 2012.
- ↑ Twenty Thousand Meters Under the Sea at The German Early Cinema Database