The law of the mine
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The law of the mine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | 69 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Joe May William Kahn |
| production | Joe May |
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The Law of the Mine is a 1915 crime film in the Joe Deebs film series .
action
A black African avenges his father by murdering the inspector of a diamond mine. Because he had swallowed diamonds, he had had the stones cut out of his father's stomach according to the law of the mine. Joe Deebs convicts the black African.
background
It was produced by May Film (F-Nr. 1), Joe May's company. It was both the first film in the series and the company's first production. It has a length of four acts at 1270, 1240 or 1230 meters, about 69 minutes. The Berlin police issued a youth ban in June 1915 (No. 15.26 and 10217/15). A press screening took place in the Berliner Kammerlichtspiele on June 3, 1915. The premiere in front of a paying audience was in July 1915 at the UT Lichtspiele (Cines Lichtspieltheater) at Nollendorfplatz No. 4, Berlin.
useful information
The later silent film star Ellen Richter made his film debut here. For the Cameroonian Lewis Brody this was also the first demonstrable film role.
After the house of the Hansa-Film-Verleihs, Berlin SW, Friedrichstrasse 5 - 6, burned down in 1917, including the negatives and all duplicates that could be copied, an attempt was made immediately after the war to reassemble the film from residual material and excerpts, but without success.
The film has since been considered lost.
Web links
- The Law of the Mine at The German Early Cinema Database
- The law of the mine at filmportal.de
- The law of the mine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Google Book Search
- ^ The law of the mine at The German Early Cinema Database
- ↑ The law of the mine at filmportal.de
- ↑ The Law of Mine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3
- ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1915-1916 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 28 .
- ^ Africa in Berlin - A walk through the city with the German Historic Museum. P. 2, (PDF; 156 kB).