The Sacrifice (1918)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The victim |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | approx. 76 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Joe May |
| production | Joe May |
| camera | Curt Courant |
| occupation | |
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The victim is a German silent film melodrama from 1918. Directed by Joe May , his wife Mia May plays the female lead.
action
Maria works as an accountant in a factory. She is in love with Rudolf Felsen, who is also employed there and with whom she had spent the previous night. Maria's mother is very concerned that this man is not serious about her daughter. Therefore, Maria Rudolf asks to officially solicit her from her mother. But Rudolf presses around, finally making it clear to Maria that this night was nothing more than a one-night stand for him and that he is engaged to the boss's daughter, Erna. Finally, Felsen gives in anyway and, for Mary's sake, fulfills the wish of the dying mother. A difficult phase now begins for Maria. Mourning the loss of her mother, she also keeps the books of the widowed print shop owner Berger after her work in the evenings. This man has long been in love with Maria and even asked for her hand. But Maria did not accept his proposal, if she just wants to marry a man she really loves.
August 1, 1914. While Rudolf Felsen is called to arms, Maria receives the news that she has emerged pregnant from the one-night stand. She does not reveal anything to her short-term lover, but wants to bear this victim of illegitimate motherhood and sole responsibility without any help. At the moment of parting, Rudolf realizes that he really only loves Maria. He is badly wounded on the battlefield and taken prisoner. This terrible news also reaches Maria, who then collapses in worry and fear for the father of her unborn child. It is the touching widower Berger who sees to it that the exhausted and exhausted woman is taken to a sanatorium. There she gives birth to her child. After the delivery, this man offers her his house as accommodation without any ulterior motives. In the meantime Maria is informed that Rudolf succumbed to his injuries at the front.
Maria now accepts Berger's marriage proposal and becomes his wife. Both have a wonderful time full of peace and happiness. One day, Maria Berger was amazed when she received a letter from Rudolf announcing his return home. Maria wants to see her loved one again. It will be a highly emotional reunion in which both of them mourn their lost happiness. Their subsequent separation will be forever this time, because Maria will stand by her husband as a faithful wife, and Rudolf has also decided to follow his original plan to become Erna's husband.
Production notes
The victim was made in March and April 1918, passed censorship at the beginning of May of the same year with a youth ban and was premiered on May 10, 1918 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . The length of the four-act vehicle was 1574 meters.
criticism
“The great change that Mia May underwent during her artistic career, which led her from socially shallow to deeply tragic experience, is fully expressed here. She embodies the woman in her mother's longing, but not with reckless desire, but in all the severity of the consequences. The severity of the pain of renunciation is so genuinely drawn in her that only a few are able to portray it. In addition, the fine nuances of the direction give a picture of highly artistic qualities. "
Web links
- The victim at The German Early Cinema Database
- The victim at filmportal.de
- The victim in the Internet Movie Database (English)