The skeleton of Mr. Markutius
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The skeleton of Mr. Markutius |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | 52 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Victor Janson |
| script | Curt Goetz |
| production | Paul Davidson (?) |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner |
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The Skeleton of Mr. Markutius is a 1920 crime film in the Joe Deebs film series .
action
Attaché van der Velden stole a pearl while he was a student. In order not to be arrested, he hid them in a skeleton that he prepared. Years later, during a visit to Consul Markutius, he discovers this very skeleton. Van der Velden tries to steal the lower leg, in which the pearl is located, unnoticed by means of a deception maneuver. But Joe Deebs finds out about him, especially since van der Velden made the mistake of swapping the right lower leg for a left one.
background
The film was produced by the Projektions-AG »Union« (PAGU) Berlin (No. 549) on behalf of Universum-Film AG (UFA) Berlin. Kurt Richter was responsible for the buildings . The film was shot in Partenkirchen . The film has a length of four acts at 1074 and 1071 meters, which corresponds to about 52 minutes. The Reich film censorship imposed a youth ban on him on July 28, 1920 (No. 172). The first performance of the silent film took place on August 13, 1920 in the UT am Kudamm in Berlin.
Web links
- The skeleton of Mr. Markutius at filmportal.de
- The skeleton of Mr. Markutius at the Murnau Foundation
- The skeleton of Mr. Markutius at The German Early Cinema Database
- The skeleton of the Lord Markutius in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18