Arabella, the novel of a horse
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| Original title | Arabella / Arabella, the novel of a horse |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1924 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Grune |
| script | Hans Kyser |
| production | Max Schach for Stern-Film (Berlin) |
| camera |
Karl Hasselmann Karl Vass |
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Arabella, the novel of a horse , sometimes just called Arabella for short , is a German silent film from 1924 by Karl Grune . The title role is played by both the horse and Hollywood star Mae Marsh .
action
A foal strolls from its owner's pasture and gets lost. When the young horse gets into a swamp, it threatens to sink into it. As luck would have it, a young woman comes along and pulls it out again. It is the circus dancer Arabella and goes from the stud owner, a young gentleman rider, to the namesake of the young horse she rescued. Years later, the horse owner and the young artist become husband and wife. Everyone's happiness seems perfect, and the horse Arabella also only seems to be going uphill.
Arabella wins all kinds of prizes as a racehorse, but then there is a serious setback. After another victory in a race, the horse had an accident and its gallop career seems to have ended prematurely. The Zossen is sold, ekes out its existence as a carousel horse for a while, is treated badly out of frustration by an artist named William, who once loved the circus dancer Arabella in vain, and finally ends up as a cab horse. One day the landlady Arabella and her husband recognize the battered and shabby animal and decide to eat it again immediately. This enables the horse Arabella a worthy bread of grace on the farm.
Production notes
Arabella passed the censorship on August 21, 1924 and was premiered on October 2, 1924 in the Berlin Mozart Hall. The film had a length of five acts by 2494 meters and was banned for young people.
For the US silent film diva Mae Marsh, this was her only German film. The buildings are by Karl Görge , the costumes by Ernő Metzner .
classification
The film, a great success in England in 1925, broke new ground in the narrative and told the checkered and tragic story of its four-legged protagonist exclusively from the horse's stand. This narrative style was later copied several times internationally, especially in the first Lassie film (1943) but also in another horse film, Black Beauty (1970).