Stock exchange and nobility
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Stock exchange and nobility |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Felix Basch |
| script | Robert Heymann |
| production | Paul Davidson for PAGU |
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Börse und Adel is a German silent film company melodrama from 1916 by Felix Basch with Harry Liedtke in one of the leading roles.
action
Count Hochfeld, a respected middle-aged gentleman, fell in love with the young Ebba Behrends, the daughter of an antique dealer. But the young woman loves the young landowner Martens Stahl, who reciprocates her feelings but is careless in nature. One day at a party he kisses the model of his artist friend. When Ebba learns this, she cuts off contact with Stahl and listens to her father's advice to marry the count. She doesn't love him, but she knows that he will take good care of her. Accordingly, marriage for them is marked by dispassion. One day on a morning drive she meets Martens again, who is delighted with this coincidence. He asks to be able to visit her more often in the near future. Martens proves to be a pleasant company that Ebba will soon no longer want to be without. One day Martens surprised Ebba by saying that he wanted to emigrate to America. The reason for this he gives his heavily indebted property, which is to be foreclosed at the instigation of the banker Bath, to whom he can no longer repay the mortgage. Ebba does not agree with this at all and persuades her husband to excuse Martens and hire him as administrator. Stahl, whose love for Ebba has also not died down, is happy to accept this offer.
One day, fate strikes mercilessly when Count Hochfeld dies in a hunting accident. For Countess Ebba, this means that she has considerable financial difficulties, because her dead husband has only granted her the compulsory portion as heir. Ebba's expensive lifestyle and her constant borrowing from banker Bath mean that Bath will soon have them in hand. He has been in love with her for a long time and now presses Ebba every time he waits for her. After the year of mourning, he asks for Ebba's hand. She is ready to marry Bath, but only for the reason that otherwise she would never pay her debts and Bath could go to Ebba's righteous father with this information. The widowed countess wants to prevent this at all costs. When Martens learns en passant of Bath's invitation to dinner at Ebba, he wants to kill himself, believing that he has now finally lost his great love. The story takes a surprising turn. Bath is arrested as a cheater and thief during supper; he is accused of plundering his bank customers' deposits. When Ebba returns home relieved, she finds a farewell letter from Martens. She rushes to his apartment, where she finds him still alive. Ebba explains to Martens the reasons for her actions to Bath, and both can now look to a future together.
Production notes
Börse und Adel was probably created in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof in mid-1916 , passed film censorship in August of the same year and was banned from young people. The four-act act may have started in the same year, a performance for Berlin can only be proven in April 1917 at the Kammerlichtspiele on Potsdamer Platz.
criticism
"The plot of this film, which is characterized by a seldom good staging, unrolls in surprisingly beautiful pictures before our eyes."