Poor Marie

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Movie
Original title Poor Marie
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1915
length approx. 76 minutes
Rod
Director Max Mack or Willy Zeyn senior
script Robert Wiene
Walter Turszinsky
production Paul Davidson for PAGU
camera Hermann Boettger
occupation

Arme Marie is a German silent film melodrama from 1915 with Hanni Weisse in the title role.

action

Marie Weber works as a small saleswoman in a large Berlin department store. The manager has been chasing after her for a long time, but Marie has always let him down. One day she gets her revenge when the man catches her stealing a little, and the manager immediately goes to the owner of the house to blacken her. The department store owner is very sad about this incident, as he has already developed deep affection for his employees lately. Even if the evidence for Marie's crime is obvious, her boss refuses to believe that Marie Weber is a bad person and is investigating the matter. In doing so, he encounters the misery that reigns in poor Marie's family: the father is paralyzed, the mother is seriously ill and the siblings are starving. Her boss recognizes the predicament in which Marie acted and forgives her misstep. The company owner even goes one step further: out of love for Miss Weber, he is now supporting her family financially and, moreover, takes his word of honor from his managing director not to tell anyone about this incident.

This arrangement and the fact that Marie Weber always resisted his advances finally made the manager's hat string one day and he hurled the word “thief” at her coram publico. The department store manager then fires him and a little later takes Marie to his wife. Meanwhile, the discharged man degenerates more and more and blames Marie for everything. He tries to blackmail her with his knowledge and threatens to make her theft public if she doesn't pay him a certain amount. Then Marie, concerned about her husband's reputation, sees only one chance: she has to reach into the till. But before it can come to that, her understanding husband appears again and throws the character rascal out of the house.

Production notes

Arme Marie - several sources also call the film Arme Maria -, with the subtitle “A department store story”, was made in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof . The film passed the film censorship in April 1915 and was premiered on May 7, 1915 in Berlin's passenger theater. The four-stroke had a length of about 1400 meters.

criticism

“Hanni Weisse in the role of poor Marie shows her very colossal dramatic ability and achieves a performance that is seldom achieved in film images. (...) We just want to mention that in an episode role the incomparable actor from handlers Ernst Lubitsch also offers a great piece of humorous film presentation. "

- Cinematographic review of July 4, 1915. p. 38

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