Blond Poison (1919)

Movie
Original title	Blond poison
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1919
length	107 minutes
Rod
Director	Hubert Moest
camera	Eugen Hamm Georg Hermann Schubert (Assistant)
occupation
Hedda Vernon : Loni Reinhold Schünzel : Adolf Reiss Paul Hartmann : Georg Maudi (alternatively: Mandi), lover Ernst Deutsch : Rolf von Roem Max Laurence Olga Engl : Mrs. Scholz, educator Marie von Bülow : Mrs. Roller Eduard von Winterstein : Chauffeur

Blondes Gift is a German film drama from 1919.

action

The literary template comes from Paul Langenscheidt and his novel Blondes Gift . Although the film had at least one screening in September 1919 at the Theater am Moritzplatz in Berlin, a description of the action is not possible because the film was banned shortly afterwards. It is known that it was the story of a prostitute (here most likely in the sense of a femme fatale ) named Loni, who first throws her husband into ruin and then shows no remorse at all when her two lovers die, as she - in the Final scene - the next best, here a police lieutenant - throws in the arms. The German Early Cinema Database only notes succinctly the sentence "Young man steals money for frivolous dancer."

background

The production company was Maak-Film Leipzig (No. 3), the distribution company was the Atlas-Film-Gesellschaft Berlin. The buildings were designed by Karl Machus , the costumes by Charles Drecoll . In its original version, the film had six acts at 2,200 meters, which corresponds to about 107 minutes.

The Berlin police initially only imposed a youth ban on him (No. 433 .., complete number is missing). The Munich police banned it (No. 33468, 33469, 33470, 33471, 33472, 33473).

On December 13, 1920, it was submitted to the Film Inspectorate , whereupon it was banned (No. 892). The ban was confirmed on January 19, 1921, despite a reduction to 1,933 meters. This was followed by a further reduction to 1,978 meters and, despite the complaint, the supervisory authority also held on to the judgment of the lower court on September 15, 1921 (No. 4230) on the grounds that “it was the intention of the manufacturer to present the display with gross sensory effects to enforce, unnecessarily and obtrusively repeatedly to indicate gendered processes and to work towards the fact that the viewer is irritated by these representations in a demoralizing way ” .

Web links

• Blondes Gift at The German Early Cinema Database
• Blond poison at filmportal.de
• Blondes Gift in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18
2. ↑ Censorship decision of December 13, 1920