The work (film)

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Movie
Original title The work
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1913
Rod
Director Ernst Reicher
script Ernst Reicher
production Continental-Kunstfilm GmbH, Berlin
occupation

The work is a short, German riddle silent film from 1913 by Ernst Reicher .

action

A sculptor creates a work that he is so enthusiastic about himself that he doesn't want to part with it under any circumstances. Art connoisseurs are also delighted with the work, but when the sculpture is about to be transported to an exhibition, it is stolen on the way there. There is not the slightest clue as to who might be the perpetrator. However, there are a number of people who could be connected to the robbery, each of whom appear in the film is suspect.

Production notes

The work was created in the fall of 1913 in the Continental Film Atelier at Chausseestrasse 123 and passed film censorship in November of the same year. On February 6, 1914, the two-act film was premiered.

The work is a typical example of the genre of prize-winning film that existed for a short time before the First World War . The first, successful production of this genre was Joe May's The veiled image of Groß-Kleindorf , the work is the fourth film in the series. Certain events were shown on the screen without giving an end to the story. The viewers could then submit written suggestions to newspapers such as the Berliner Tageblatt as to how the film should end. The winner was rewarded with prize money. The break-up film was due to appear on April 3, 1914. Das Werk started up in Vienna in April 1914. 114 cash prizes in the amount of 1,500 kroner were offered here for the correct solution to the case. Despite the advertised prize, the genre of the prize-winning film could not establish itself in Germany.

The work was the first screen production by the actor Ernst Reicher, who became famous a little later in the role of the smart detective Stuart Webbs .

criticism

Vienna's Neue Freie Presse wrote: “Among the previously published mystery films, the two-act tragedy by Ernst Reicher:“ The Work ”is undisputedly the best. (…) This drama creates a tremendous tension and it really takes psychology to guess the real culprit. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht: German silent films 1913-1914, p. 60. Berlin 1969
  2. ^ Neue Freie Presse, April 5, 1914, p. 26
  3. ↑ "The Work". In:  Neue Freie Presse , April 5, 1914, p. 48 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp

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