The love happiness of the blind

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Movie
Original title The love happiness of the blind
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1911
length about 8 minutes
Rod
Director Curt A. Stark
Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
script Pink Porten
production Oskar Messter
occupation

Das Liebesglück der Blinden is a short German silent film drama from 1911 with Henny Porten in the title role.

action

A young, blind girl hopes for healing through the art of an eye specialist. The doctor takes care of the patient and operates on her eyes. During this time, the doctor and the patient fall in love. On the one hand, the eye specialist wishes success, on the other hand, he is also afraid of it. Because he feels himself to be misshapen and believes that those who see then will turn away from him when he sees him.

The fear of being abandoned by the young love is so great that the man intends to take his own life. But when the girl sees him for the first time, his reaction is very different from what he feared. At the last moment, it can deter him from his act of desperation. Their love is stronger and they both have a future together.

Production notes

The one-act, 226-meter-long film was shot towards the end of 1910 and was censored on December 17, 1910. It premiered on January 28, 1911. Das Liebesglück der Blinden was “the first German film with a self-contained plot at all. "

For Henny Porten, who until then had only worked in sound images, this was her first regular feature film in which she played the lead role. For those who remained unnamed there, the bliss of love of the blind meant the rise to the first German cinema star and the beginning of a career spanning around four and a half decades. Portens later husband Curt A. Stark directed.

Rosa Porten is said to have had the idea for this film from the proximity of an institution for the blind to her parents' apartment in Berlin-Steglitz .

The production costs including Virage were 244 marks (1,378 euros).

Reception and classification

The specialist publication Der Kinematograph reported in 1910 in its number 207 on the production.

Kay Weniger's Großer Personenlexikon des Films called the short film a "heartfelt drama".

In Oskar Kalbus ' Vom becoming German film art it says: “The risk was taken and thus the foundation stone was laid for the artistic development of Henny Portens and for her later fame. “Das Liebesglück der Blinden”, this first of their “big films”, has become a milestone in the history of German film art. At the same time, however, the epoch of the personality cult began for cinema art. The Messter company was showered with letters asking them to bring out another film very soon in which the beautiful blonde blind man - Henny Porten's name was of course not mentioned in this film - played the leading role. Now she was given roles on roles. The more she played, the more her performance grew. "

Reclam's film guide briefly called the strip a "stirring piece".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Hinrichsen: Blind people in the cinema in the Google book search
  2. ^ Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Munich 1956, p. 68
  3. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films 1903-1912 . Berlin 1969, p. 53 .
  4. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 300.
  5. ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. 1st part: The silent film . Berlin 1935, p. 20 .
  6. ↑ Reclams film leader. With the collaboration of Jürgen Labenski . 9. Revised and expanded edition. Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart 1993, p. 20 .