Cinderella (1916)

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Movie
Original title Cinderella
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1916
length 38 minutes
Rod
Director Urban Gad
script Urban Gad
production Paul Davidson
for projection group "Union"
camera Axel Graatkjaer
occupation

Cinderella is a German film drama in three acts by Urban Gad from 1916. It is one of the director's lost films.

action

Mrs. von Harten's councilor has been hiding a secret from her husband for years: As a young woman, she had a brief affair, got pregnant and gave birth to her daughter Lore. Since then, she has grown up with a poor shoemaker family, but is often sick from the bad air. The fact that she is treated very strictly by her foster parents and has to do all the work in the home weakens her health further. Since Ms. von Harten receives hardly any money from her husband for her own use, she can only support Lotte financially with limited resources. Ms. von Harten visits her tall, skinny daughter every month, but she does not know that she is her daughter. The doctor for the poor advises von Harten to send Lore to the country to recover, but she cannot pay for such a stay. By chance she succeeds in hiring Lore as a kitchen assistant at a party in the von Harten house. The girl quickly befriends the son and daughter of the family and Frau von Harten uses the opportunity to stand up for Lore with her husband. He takes them to the country for a while.

Lore's foster parents appear to demand money from Frau von Harten. When she refuses, the parents threaten to tell her husband about Lore. Ms. von Harten now inevitably gives them all of her economic money. When Lore has to leave the von Harten family again, wife von Harten, who has since revealed herself to her as a mother, gives her 100 marks - her husband's tax money that she stole from him secretly from his desk. Government councilor von Harten notices shortly thereafter that there is a lack of money and suspects his staff. He has the employees searched and finds the banknote on the ready-to-travel lorry, which pleads guilty of theft. Frau von Harten intervenes and confesses to her husband what she did and her motherhood. This throws his wife and Lore out of the house. Frau von Harten decides to lead a life together with her daughter, albeit a poor one. Only the two children of the government council can convince their father to take their mother and her step-sister Lore back into the family, and a reconciliation takes place.

production

Cinderella was shot in 1914 in the Union-Atelier Berlin-Tempelhof on Oberlandstrasse. The film constructions come from Fritz Seyffert . On September 8, 1915, the censors banned the film, which originally had a length of 1038 meters (approx. 38 minutes at 24 frames / s), with a youth ban. The shortened version (846 meters, approx. 31 minutes at 24 frames / s) was checked again on October 10, 1922, but was also banned from young people. The film had its premiere on December 1, 1916. It was shown in the Union theaters in Berlin, among others.

Cinderella is one of Urban Gad's lost films. From 2005 to 2006, as part of a project funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture, archives were intensively searched for copies or fragments of films with the participation of Asta Nielsen. A ten meter (approx. 22 seconds at 24 frames / s) long fragment of the film was found at the Danske Film Institute .

criticism

Cinderella was advertised as "a poignant drama from life". "The material and photos are good, the game is very good," summarized a critic in 1916 in Paimann's film lists .

Asta Nielsen, 35 years old at the time of the premiere, plays a girl of twelve or thirteen in the film. The critics called their cast “a daring experiment. But it is nonetheless an interesting and successful one. The artist's versatility and creative ability are extraordinary. ”The“ delightful garden shots with cherry trees in bloom ”were also positively highlighted.

literature

  • Cinderella . In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films . (Edition Asta Nielsen, Volume 2). 2nd Edition. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , pp. 203-206.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas C. Christensen: Asta Nielsen - Lost and Found . Journal of Film Preservation , No. 69, Issue 5, 2005, pp. 57–58 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fiafnet.org
  2. ↑ See comment by Oliver Hanley ( Deutsche Kinemathek ) on Cinderella on lost-films.eu.
  3. ↑ Asta Nielsen in the film Cinderella . In: Der Film , No. 43, 1916, p. 37.
  4. ↑ Cinderella . In: Paimann's Filmlisten , No. 16, April 17, 1916.
  5. ↑ a b Argus: News on the Berlin film market: Cinderella . In: The Kinematograph - Düsseldorf . Volume 10, No. 519, December 6, 1916, p. 15.