The right to happiness
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The right to happiness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | about 38 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Schmidthässler or Bruno Ziener |
| production | Jules Greenbaum |
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The right to happiness is a silent, German love melodrama from 1913 by Walter Schmidthässler with Toni Sylva in the leading role.
action
The former neighbors Else and Lolotte have been close friends for ages. While Else as a milliner pursues a normal professional, Lolotte lives from day to day and are quite the extravagant pleasures out. Else has big problems: She lives in poverty, her father is a drunkard and would love to marry her off to another drunkard. But Else refuses, she thinks that she too has a right to happiness. And so this wish drives her out of her parents' home, away from the drinking father, the money problems and all the other worries that the excited Lolotte doesn't seem to have.
Lolotte's life fascinates Else Lenz because it is so completely different from yours. The girlfriend moves in supposedly “better circles”, jewelry, elegant clothes, a chic apartment and lots of gentlemen acquaintances are her external accessories that promise supposed happiness. Lolotte becomes the great role model for Else's idea of a perfect future, an ideal life. Else wants that too, and so she becomes the second Lolotte. From now on, their stages are the horse races as well as the night bars and other playgrounds of the Haute-Volée. The man who becomes Else's galan is much older than she and a nobleman named Count Römer. But behind the facade it looks different: Else is - despite the external glitter glamor, for which she had so stubbornly “worked” - anything but happy, the external appearance and pomp can soon no longer cover up her inner emptiness.
One day she meets the engineer Bruno. He's a decent, solid and down-to-earth man who seems to promise everything that Else has missed in all the past times: honest and sincere love. Bruno is ready to get involved with Else, to let her become a “better person”. In return, the young woman is even ready to leave her luxurious life as a lotter together with Count Römer behind. One day Bruno has to go on a business trip to Africa, and Else promises to remain loyal to him during his absence. When he comes back, that's a done deal, they both want to get married. Else breaks with her previous life, renounces luxury and goes back to a regular job in a fashion house. Soon all savings will be used up, but when Bruno returns as promised and takes her home, a new life can finally begin.
Production notes
The right to happiness was created in the Vitascope studio in Berlin's Lindenstrasse 32–34. The three-act film with a length of 695 meters passed film censorship in July 1913, but was premiered on June 20, 1913.
criticism
“The audience loves Tony Silva on the film. Your portrayal receives truth and human feeling through a personable appearance, a smooth and amiable movement, an elegant and tasteful game. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the Kinematographische Rundschau
- ↑ according to German Early Cinema
- ↑ Cinematographische Rundschau of June 8, 1913. P. 55