Abysses (1915)

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Movie
Original title Abysses
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1915
length approx. 75 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Oberländer
script Pink Porten
production Jules Greenbaum
occupation

Abysses is a German silent film -Melodram from 1915 by Hans Oberlander .

action

At the center of the action is a little flower maker who is seduced by her colleague into leaving her groom, a decent worker from small backgrounds, in favor of a bon vivant who is as wealthy as he is characterless. This decision only brings bad luck; only her mother dies of a broken heart because she cannot approve of the new lifestyle of her daughter, who has degenerated into a "cocotte". Then the brother with lung disease also falls victim to the infirmity and breathes out his life, also out of grief. When the flower girl finally has to find out that she is cheating on her quirky lover with another woman, abysses open up for her too. With a single revolver shot, she then strikes the character rag down.

Years have passed since then, the flower girl's worker friend has now married and has become the father of a cute daughter. His marriage is full of harmony. The flower girl has served her prison sentence for manslaughter and is being released. The first thing that drives her to see her former boyfriend, whom she had so disdainfully abandoned. But his wife rejects them at the front door. The ex-fiancée then goes into the forest, where the worker is busy felling trees. His wife and daughter are also on the way there to bring her husband lunch. The playing child comes dangerously close to a falling tree, but is saved at the last moment by the flower maker. Out of gratitude, the girl's mother takes the unfortunate woman into her house.

Production notes

Abfalls was created in the spring of 1915 in the Greenbaum studio in Berlin-Weißensee and passed the censorship in September 1915, which issued a performance ban for the duration of the war. It is not known when or if the film ever opened in public. After all, the film was shown to at least a specialist audience in Vienna in July 1915. The length of the four-act vehicle was 1380 meters.

Here Toni Sylva played what is believed to be her last film role.

criticism

“A picture of extraordinary effect and harrowing tragedy, which, however, after its conciliatory conclusion, must be counted in every direction towards those films that are fully satisfying, is the four-act moral drama“ Abfalls ”. (...) The excellent directing skills of Dr. Hans Oberländers has created a series of scenes that in their entirety beautifully reflect the beautifully thought-out plot. In the role of the little flower maker, Toni Sylva shows herself as a master ... "

- Cinematographic review of July 25, 1915. p. 68

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