Alexandra (1914)
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| Original title | Alexandra |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | 49 minutes |
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| Director | Curt A. Stark |
| script | based on the play by Richard Voss |
| production | Oskar Messter |
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Alexandra is a German silent film drama from 1914 directed by Curt A. Stark with his wife Henny Porten in the lead role.
action
Alexandra is a homeless young woman when she meets Count Eberti, who comes from a decent family. He gives structure to her life and gives the young woman a home. The nomad finds in him the security she has long missed and eventually becomes his lover. But one day Count Erwin succumbs to the whispers of his class-conscious mother, who does not at all approve of his dealings with the bourgeoisie, and sends Alexandra away. She is pregnant by her Erwin and, now again penniless, is slipping into social misery. Soon she can no longer pay her apartment rent and is put in front of the door with her little worm. Now Alexandra is homeless, freezes and has to go begging for the survival of her child. To keep it warm, Alexandra hugs her child tightly and falls asleep.
When she wakes up all kinds of people are around her. Farmers beat them up and a gendarme yells around. Alexandra had pressed the little one to death in a phase of fainting caused by the cold. In court she was convicted of a murderer and was sent to prison for five years. Back at large, Alexandra has only one thing left in mind: to take revenge. Revenge on the man who rejected them and left them on the street, revenge on the one responsible for all the misfortune. In short: revenge on Count Erwin. She flatters himself with him, and the nobleman realizes that his love for Alexandra is still glowing. Even the count's mother suddenly shows mildness and welcomes Alexandra from now on. With their new behavior, Alexandras also changes. She begins to rethink her plan for revenge. But at some point, information about Alexandra's past as a convict seeps through to them. In order to spare her lover the shame, Alexandra takes her own life.
Production notes
Alexandra , occasionally also listed under Die Rache ist mein , was made shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in the Messter-Film-Atelier in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32. The film was censored on August 1, 1914 and was shown in the same month in the Würzburg Palace Theater (from 1920 Central Theater ) premiered. The Berlin premiere took place on January 22, 1915 in the Admiralspalast . The original four-stroke engine was 1,324 meters long. A youth ban was issued.
criticism
“Henny Porten plays Alexandra in Richard Voss's play of the same name. That means a sensation because our best German film actress has taken possession of a subject that is made for the film like no other. The child murderer out of need and desperation is the Porten because she brings up the feeling of real femininity, real motherliness and love. (...) Henny Porten has moments in this drama, which mean the very highest art, which dare to say: the artist plays her best role in Alexandra (...) Her partner, Fritz Feher, combines sympathy, refinement and fine, discreet play . (...) The staging and technical design of the picture are rarely beautiful and tasteful. The photography is completely at the height, which is increased by well-chosen perspectives and scenarios. "
Web links
- Alexandra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alexandra at The German Early Cinema Database
- Alexandra at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 1, Franconian Society Printing Office, Würzburg 1967, p. 23 ( Eichhornstrasse ).