On the sunny side (1919)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | On the sunny side |
| Original title | Sunnyside |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 29 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charles Chaplin |
| script | Charles Chaplin |
| production | Charles Chaplin |
| camera | Roland Totheroh |
| cut | Charles Chaplin |
| occupation | |
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On the sunny side (original title: Sunnyside ) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Chaplin from 1919 .
action
Charlie is employed as a farm laborer in the village of Sunnyside, but also works as a “ girl for everything ” in the run-down country hotel “Evergreen” and as a salesman in the associated shop. His boss has to force him out of bed in the morning. To save time when making breakfast, he has a chicken put the egg for the omelette directly in the pan and milk the milk from the cow directly into the cups. Before he can finish breakfast, his boss chases him out of the house.
The villagers go to Sunday mass while Charlie has to drive the cows to pasture. By inattentiveness he loses the herd. In the village he meets the animals, but is carried away by a bull and falls off a bridge from his back. He dreams of four dancing nymphs who tickle him with a flower. He has fun dancing with them until he is pulled out of the ditch and kicked back into reality by his boss.
After a rendezvous with the village beauty, Charlie comes back to the hotel too late. A young man from the city has an accident with his car in the village and is taken to the hotel. There the man gets to know the village beauty, goes to her home and Charlie no longer has a chance with her. - His boss rudely wakes Charlie out of this nightmare, he fell asleep on a chair.
Happily, he falls into his lover's arms after the rich man's departure.
background
Sunnyside was Chaplin's third film for First National . It only served to fulfill the contract; Chaplin had already decided in early 1919 for a different distribution channel with Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford and David Wark Griffith as United Artists . The film was made in Chaplin's studio and was released on June 15, 1919.
Reviews
The film had only moderate success with the audience, since Chaplin deviated from his usual role and the inventions of the film character served to facilitate the excessive work and not - as usual - to shift it on to others.
Web links
- On the sunny side in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram Tichy: Charlie Chaplin in self-testimonies and picture documents (= rowohlts monographien. Vol. 219). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-499-50219-4 , p. 68 f.