Condition - no attachment!
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Condition - no attachment! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | approx. 42 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stellan Rye |
| script | Luise Heilborn-Körbitz |
| production | German bioscop |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
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Condition - no attachment! is a short, German silent film fun play from 1914 by Stellan Rye with Ernst Lubitsch in one of his first film roles.
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The a bit tatterige Serenissimus a Duodezfürstentums visited the samples of Dückestädter court ballet. In doing so, his highness has to indignantly state that none of the ballet members can be considered young. Thereupon he instructs his adjutant Kindermann that a remedy must be found as soon as possible: a young dancer has to come here, but "without any followers!" As his Highness puts it. Kindermann forwards this most princely order to the theater agent, Ohrstein, so that he can start looking for it as quickly as possible. Ohrstein telegraphs the famous solo dancer Stella and offers her the post of prima ballerina. Now there is a serious problem: Stella is happily married and has three children! Her husband persuades her anyway, and so Stella applies for the new post.
Together with the attachments - husband, children and also the mother-in-law - Stella approaches the apartment rented by Kindermann and confiscates it. Ohrstein is flabbergasted, but tries to save what can be saved. He had the idea of hiding the children, relabeling the husband as servant and Stella's mother as cook. Stella's husband becomes jealous of Kindermann's behavior and no longer trusts peace. He doesn't want to take his eyes off his wife for a second and disguises himself as a piano teacher in order to be able to observe everything unobtrusively. During the upcoming visit of his Highness, he eyes them both with eagle eyes in this outfit, while his Stella shakes a leg with the serenissimus to the tango . The princely adjutant who is also present has meanwhile cast an eye on the “piano teacher” and brings her into an anteroom. There the unsuspecting child man is flirting with Stella's disguised husband.
At the same time, Stella has her hands full keeping the ever more intrusive, clumsy prince at a distance. She insists that the employment contract be signed and disappears silently from the room as soon as the Serenissimus turns off the light. The stupid serenissism gropes its way through the dark room, looking for Stella. He ends up in the bedroom, where Stella's three children are yelling in bed. Stella, in turn, rushes to her husband, who is currently sitting on Kindermann's lap as a “piano teacher”. The chaos is perfect and the facts are cleared up. His Highness does not want to show any nakedness and is not angry about the "appendix". Finally, he bestows the disguised husband of the dedicated dancer with the House Order for excellent service in relation to “the appendix”.
Production notes
Condition - no attachment! is one of the few comedies by the Danish star director of The Student from Prague . The film, which presumably no longer exists today, was censored on March 17, 1914, measured three nudes at 768 meters and was thus a short film. A complete ban has been issued. In the Austro-Hungarian city of Prague, however, the film ran on November 6, 1914 in the Lucerna cinema.
Here Lubitsch has a role that is not untypical for his early creative period, one that plays with gender roles. As in the comedies The Company Marries and The Company's Pride, shot almost at the same time, Albert Paulig is his film partner in the funniest scenes .
criticism
"The serenissimus is played by Mr. Waßmann in the way we saw this figure of him in the Berliner Kammerspiele, the child man is played by Mr. Paulig, the husband by Mr. Lubitsch (both did an excellent job in the film" The company is getting married "). Miss Liddi Sinner [sic!] Looks delightful as a ballerina. She is pretty and an excellent actress. "
Censorship problems
The censorship authorities mainly criticized those scenes that contained strong sexual innuendos. This led to the ban in 1914. During the reassessment on June 23, 1921, when the film was presented to the censorship authorities under the new title “Please without attachment”, this prohibition was first confirmed, as a large part of the scenes in this film, as the reason stated, “completely open the sexual sensory stimulus is adjusted and therefore suitable to have a demoralizing effect ”. Thereupon the rental company Robert Glombeck lodged a complaint. At the renegotiation on August 29, 1921, the strip was approved with the following reason: “The strip of images, applied thickly with coarse humor, contains a number of daring situations. However, none of the images shown depicts immorality. The clothes of the characters, especially the dancers, are nowhere indecent ... "
Web links
- Condition - no attachment! at filmportal.de
- Condition - no attachment! at The German Early Cinema Database
- Condition - no attachment! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Early German Cinema Database calls it Rosenblüth
- ↑ Censorship decision 1921