The orphanage child
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The orphanage child |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | approx. 68 (Austrian version) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Schmidthässler |
| script | Louis Levy |
| production | Neutral-Film (Berlin) on behalf of Saturn-Film (Berlin) |
| camera | Carl Ferdinand Fischer |
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The Orphanage Child is a German silent film melodrama with Asta Nielsen , filmed in 1916 and not released in German cinemas until the beginning of 1918.
action
Esther grows up in the orphanage. There the child who desperately wants to become an actress is treated badly. One day she doesn't like anymore and runs away. The doctor Dr. Hoff takes the young girl in with him. Esther stays there for five years, then she also leaves this home because Dr. Hope doesn't want to comply with her wish to let her go to the theater. In the more art-loving poet Hugo Mayerling, Esther finds a kindred spirit and becomes his secretary. In the theater performances of his plays, he ensures that Esther gets the respective leading roles. Out of respect and affection eventually love becomes, and they both marry.
Production notes
The orphanage child was, along with Das Eskimo Baby , Dora Brandes , The Rose of the Wilderness , The Stock Exchange Queen , The First Patient , Im Lebenswirbel and Das Liebes-ABC, one of eight films that Asta Nielsen shot in the summer of 1916 for the distributor Neutral-Film under the simplest of conditions . Nielsen financed The Orphanage Child and the other films herself, and the shooting took place in the Union studio she rented in Tempelhof. After the completion of Dora Brandes and Das Liebes-ABC , there were payment differences, so that Nielsen, according to his own statement, dissolved the cooperation with the film company in court and sold the negatives that had been shot but not yet completed to another film company. According to the contract, she was obliged to insure the negatives, whereby the insurance costs should be paid to Nielsen in the event of any damage. In fact, all six of the films' original negatives were destroyed in a fire in a copier shortly after the premiere. However, the rental company claimed the insurance money for itself. The ensuing legal process between the company and Asta Nielsen was not decided in Nielsen's favor until 1922, when the sum insured had already become worthless due to inflation .
The orphanage child passed the German film censorship in June 1917 and was probably premiered in the marble house that same month . However, the three-act act started in Vienna the year before, on October 3, 1916. This Austrian version was about 1400 meters long.
Carl Ferdinand Fischer (1889–1957) was a Danish cameraman who was brought to Berlin especially for Nielsen's 1916 productions.
criticism
In Paimann's film lists you can read: "Material is simple, but the photos and scenery are very good, game is great."
Web links
- The orphanage child at The German Early Cinema Database
- The orphanage children in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The orphanage child at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Asta Nielsen: The silent muse. Life memories. Henschel, Berlin 1977, p. 204.
- ↑ The ABC of Love. In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films (= Kinothek Asta Nielsen. Vol. 2). Filmarchiv Austria Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , p. 213.
- ↑ The orphanage child in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
