The right of free love

Movie
Original title	The right of free love
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1919
length	125 minutes
Rod
Director	Jaap Speyer
script	Harry Hasland
camera	Max Lutze
occupation
Magnus Stifter : Professor Carlsen Ernst Hofmann : Helmut Rainer Gertrud Welcker : Lony Palmers (daughter) Bruno Eichgrün : Geza Palmers (2nd man) Käthe Richter : wife of Professor Palmers Colette Corder Willy Schmidt Fritz Hartwig Pietro Scholz Guido Herzfeld Grit Hegesa Fritz Achterberg Arnold Czempin Max Ruhbeck

The right of free love (alternative title The right to love ) is a German silent film from 1919.

action

Professor Carlsen is an advocate of marriage, but neglects his wife. She leaves him and lives free love with her second husband.

background

The production company was Progress Film Berlin. The film had a length of seven acts at 2665 meters before and 2563 meters, about 125 minutes after the censorship.

Both the Berlin Police (No. 43483) and the Munich Police (No. 35591, 35592, 35593, 35594, 35595, 35596, 35597, 35598) imposed a youth ban on him.

The film premiered in November 1919.

The renewed examination of the Reichsfilmzensur Berlin forbade him on January 29, 1921 (No. 1200), after a renewed examination it mitigated on April 22, 1921 a youth ban.

reception

On January 21, 1921, the censors said that the "film wade [t] downright in moral depravity and in the boundless contempt of moral laws" and banned it. The complaint led to a new decision.

The second censorship report, on the other hand, said that the film conveyed “so many different impressions, occasionally also of a beneficial kind”, so that the ban was lifted, but the film remained with a youth ban.

literature

• Hans-Michael Bock, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Jörg Schöning, Malte Hagener (editor): Gender in fetters. Sexuality between enlightenment and exploitation in the Weimar cinema 1918–1933. (CineGraph book) Hamburg 2000, 179 pages. ISBN 978-3-88377-643-9

Web links

• The Right to Free Love at The German Early Cinema Database
• The right of free love at filmportal.de
• The right of free love in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18
2. ↑ ^{a b} Censorship decisions in the archive of the German Film Institute
3. ↑ Censorship report of January 29, 1921
4. ↑ Censorship report of April 22, 1922