Amaranth (film)

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Movie
Original title Amaranth / amaranth
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1916
Rod
Director Martin Haras
production Alfa-Film, Berlin
occupation

Amarant is a German silent film melodrama from 1916 with Aud Egede Nissen and Nils Chrisander in the lead roles.

action

Alfred Lenz works as a painter and one day he is called to the castle of Count Friedheim to restore valuable old masters. There he met his beautiful young wife. His heart is quickly aflame. When the painter wants to make model studies, he looks for a model that he finds in the young gypsy Amaranth. The girl falls head over heels in love with Alfred and sees strong competition in the Countess, whom Alfred loves. Amaranth uses a ruse. While Alfred is still daydreaming about his love for the countess, she steals the countess's clothes and puts them on. Lenz does not immediately recognize who is approaching his bedchamber in the dark, but a woman's voice tells him that he should flee with her. In fact, he takes amaranth for the countess and sets out that same night to leave the castle with her. Both of them flee to his apartment, where the painter finally realizes who he has “kidnapped”. Furious, he throws the manipulative gypsy out of his domicile. Amaranth does not give up, however, in an effort to win Alfred's heart.

Alfred now devotes himself entirely to his artistic work and paints a Madonna painting. When Count and Countess Friedheim visit the painter in his studio, they are immediately enthusiastic about his work of art and buy it. Amarant has managed to sneak back into Alfred's life and can persuade the painter to cancel the sale and send the Madonna to an art exhibition instead. In fact, his painting fetched a huge selling price. The Countess would like to personally congratulate the painter on his successful sale and on this occasion goes to his apartment. She is being watched by amaranth. Furious with jealousy, the gypsy rushes to the exhibition, cuts the painting out of the frame and destroys it. Then Amarant runs to Alfred's apartment and stabs himself there.

Production notes

Amaranth , often also called Amaranth or with the subtitle Die Liebe einer Gigeunerin , was censored in February 1916 and premiered in the spring of the same year. The film had three acts.

reception

"The tragedy of an artist for whom the vengeance of his jealous lover is undoing."

- Cinematographische Rundschau of May 21, 1916. P. 28

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