Alcohol (1920)

Movie
Original title	alcohol
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1920
length	96 minutes
Rod
Director	Alfred Lind E. A. Dupont (follow-up photos)
script	Alfred Lind E. A. Dupont
camera	Karl Hasselmann Charles Paulus (follow-ups)
occupation
Emil Birron : Erik Elvestadt, foundling Hanni Weisse : Erik Elvestadt's mother, artist Jean Moreau : Erik Elvestadt's father, a convict Ernst Rückert : father as an artist, convict Maria Zelenka : Hella Swendsen Ferry Sikla : Chief Wilhelm Diegelmann : Cellar Master Auguste Pünkösdy Toni Tetzlaff Georg Heinrich Schnell

Alcohol is a German film drama from 1920.

action

During a carnival, Hella Swendsen learns from her fiancé Erik Elvestaedt that his mother was an alcoholic and his father was a murderer. After this admission, Erik flees the party. He meets his father, who has escaped from prison. Flashbacks tell the life of the former bank clerk, from the first juvenile crime to his murder. Meanwhile, a fire has broken out in the house where the celebration is taking place. Erik's father saves Hella by carrying her to a window, where she can save herself by jumping into the rescue sheet. He wants to save more people and burns himself.

background

The film was produced by Stern-Film GmbH Berlin (No. 50). Since some of the variety recordings were unusable, a re-shoot took place. According to filmportal.de, the cameraman Karl Hasselmann was responsible for, the German Early Cinema Database writes that Charles Paulus would have taken over the post-shoot as cameraman . The buildings were designed by Robert A. Dietrich , the costumes by Willi Ernst .

The re-shoot was so extensive that Dupont has to be considered the main director.

The film was six acts at 2,185 meters. The Berlin police censored the film in January 1920 (No. 43699) and demanded extensive cuts, so that at the end the film still had six acts, but was only 1,763 meters long, about 96 minutes.

According to Filmportal.de, the first preview took place on December 30, 1919 in the Marmorhaus Berlin, the actual premiere there on January 1, 1920, but according to GECD already on December 31, 1920.

The Reichsfilmzensur Berlin imposed a youth ban on him on November 29, 1920 (No. 830).

criticism

Die Lichtbildbühne believes that Dupont's directorial work has "not only not disappointed the great expectations that were generally attached to Alfred Lind's directing [...], but fulfilled them to the greatest extent." She also writes that one must establish "that this film will satisfy audiences in every way. The big recordings, the sensational variety program and the gripping plot take account of the tastes of the large cinema audience and thus the film will satisfy audiences in all, even the smallest, theaters. "

Web links

• Alcohol at The German Early Cinema Database
• Alcohol at filmportal.de
• Alcohol in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Film poster by Josef Fenneker at Deutsche Kinemathek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lichtbild-Bühne , No. 52, December 27, 1919
2. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18