The house on Dragonergasse
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The house on Dragonergasse |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1921 |
| length | approx. 66 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Oswald |
| script | Paul Merzbach |
| production | Richard Oswald |
| camera | Willy Goldberger |
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Das Haus in the Dragonergasse is a German silent film drama from 1921 by Richard Oswald with Werner Krauss , Paul Bildt and Theodor Loos in the leading roles.
action
The son of a grocer, Walter Uhl, is a morally ill-behaved young man who has to answer for a lot of bad things through his actions. First he makes sure that his sister Lia's poor fiancé, Mr. Funke, has to go innocently behind bars. Walter wants more for his sister (and therefore also for himself). Then he couples the young woman, who has now become unbound, with a wealthy bon vivant, who does not necessarily have more character than himself, but as a future husband Lias, hopes Walter, promises a warm rain of money. When this bon vivant at Lia's side abandons Walter's sister one day, Walter, who now feels cheated out of the bubbling money he had hoped for, turns around and kills him without further ado. Remorseful, however, Walter surrenders himself to justice, and Funke, whose innocence has been proven and has been released from prison, can now finally marry his Lia.
Production notes
The house in Dragonergasse is likely to claim a record in film history. Since director Richard Oswald absolutely needed a new film from his own production in one to two weeks for his own light plays in Berlin, he called Werner Krauss without further ado and asked him whether it would be available at short notice. After Krauss replied in the affirmative, Oswald turned the house on Dragonergasse off in less than four days in June 1921. The five-act act with a length of 1520 meters passed the film censorship on June 22, 1921 and was premiered two days later in the Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele. The film opened in Austria in May 1922.
The buildings were designed by Stefan Lhotka .
criticism
In Paimann's film lists the film calls a “Realistic moral image” and judged: “The subject is kept very exciting, the characters are placed in a milieu from which the conflicts develop as a logical consequence. The presentation is consistently first class, especially Werner Krauss, whose strong personality makes the role played believable, Eugen Jensen and Paul Bildt, the latter with Schünzel-like echoes, are directed by a precise director who creates a setting that effectively underlines the processes described. The photos are very good. (A hit of the first order.) "
Web links
- The house in the Dragoons alley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The house on Dragonergasse at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Kindler Verlag Munich 1956, p. 108
- ↑ The house on Dragonergasse ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Paimann's film lists
