The war sponsor child

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Movie
Original title The war sponsor child
Country of production Austria-Hungary
original language German
Publishing year 1915
length approx. 71 minutes
Rod
Director Emil Leyde
script Alfred German-German
production Robert Muller
music Edmund Eysler
occupation

and ladies from the imperial and royal nobility: Countess Berchtold (wife of the Foreign Minister), Baroness Skoda, Archduchess Isabella and Archduchess Zita, who later became the last Empress of Austria-Hungary (1916–1918) and a machine gun division of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 84 .

The war sponsor is a patriotic and charitable, Austro-Hungarian silent film drama from 1915.

action

At the center of the story are a conscientious major with his family and a worker and landsturm sergeant, also with an attachment. Both men, who would normally never have met socially in class-conscious Austria in the 19th and early centuries, are welded together by the events of the war. The worker, now with the military rank of sergeant, rescues his superior, the major, under constant fire from the enemy, when he remains wounded. Sergeant Klaus catches a fatal bullet himself. Major von Erben does not know the name of his life saver, but after peace has been reached and he holds the rank of general, he wants to do something for others.

And so the officer's wife is involved in the campaign war sponsorship and receives a war sponsor child who receives all the support in this family that it needs. Over the years this assigned child has grown into a capable engineer who has risen to become one of the leading figures in the Skoda works. A deep love breaks out between him and Marie von Erben, the general's daughter. The aristocratic general has some concerns about a marriage out of class, since the engineer is only a working class child, but changes his mind suddenly when he learns about the origin of his war sponsored child: it is none other than the son of his former life saver Josef Klaus . He embraces his future son-in-law with all his heart and gives him a warm welcome to his family.

Production notes

The war sponsored child was born in the summer of 1915 with protection from the highest nobility of the Habsburg Empire. The film locations in Vienna were the Kursalon, Countess Nadine Berchtold's palace and the Pirquet Clinic. In Pilsen the film was shot in the Skoda factories there .

The film had four acts and was about 1,300 feet long. The premiere took place on October 8, 1915. The income was based on the donation of war children by German women. The majority of professional actors were engaged at the Burgtheater at the time .

Its propagandistic element was based on the fact that the idea of ​​a war sponsorship in view of the great human losses on the Austro-Hungarian war fronts wanted to avoid a thinning of future generations. At the beginning of 1915 the campaign "War Sponsorship" was founded. Members of the board of trustees were several women from the Austrian nobility. In the founding appeal it was said:

“In the days when thousands of our men stand on the battlefield, it is a patriotic and heartfelt duty to devote more care than ever to the protection of the child; The next generation is destined to fill in the gaps that are now being torn in our ranks by the war. "

Reviews

“The war godfather” will not only be one of those lively documents of the tremendous events that characterize the present day ... it will also remind us and future generations in the sign of peace that at a time when hatred, envy and wickedness die Trying to set the world on fire, the Austrian heart has not stopped beating and that ... works of noble love of neighbor and fatherland have been created which will probably be counted among the most beautiful trophies of a finite victory. (...) The director Emil Leyde knew how to adapt himself completely to Alfred Deutsch German's good invention and to create a film, technically and scenically, that ... must do credit to the art of film. (...) Georg Reimers as a major is a splendid figure. (...) Ms. Lotte Medelsky is equally excellent (...) Franz Höbling as Landsturmfeldwebel shed his role in a way that could hardly be better. Poldi Müller as the general daughter is lovely as always ... "

- Cinematographic review of October 3, 1915. P. 50 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The mobilization of the cradles on habsburger.net

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