The flight to the western border
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The flight to the western border |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Obal |
| production | Max Obal |
| camera | Willy Hameister |
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The Flight to the West Frontier is a German silent film from 1914 by Max Obal .
action
A foreign engineer steals the construction plans of a new flying machine from a German inventor and takes them abroad. The theft is discovered in good time and gives the German inventor the opportunity to withdraw his flying apparatus from a baptism of fire while pursuing the villain. He sits down in his invention, takes off and flies after the express train with which the thief wants to get away across Germany. He even flies over the French border and sits on the moving train. Then the daring pilot uncouples a few wagons, overcomes the brazen thief and can usurp the plans back to himself. Then he escapes with his plane.
Production notes
The flight to the western border was filmed under the title His record flight . The three-act film, which was still produced in peacetime in the Continental Film Atelier in Chausseestrasse 123 in Berlin, was censored in April 1914 and premiered in September for a very topical occasion - the enemy's espionage activities against Germany at the beginning of the First World War . The film opened in Hamburg on October 24, 1914, and in Austria-Hungary on November 27 of the same year
criticism
“German film production is trying to follow world events as quickly as possible. The intrinsic value probably suffers from this speed, but the images themselves prove that German technology in the production of photographs is not inferior to foreign manufacturers in terms of inventiveness, boldness or skill. The latest work is called: "The Flight to the Western Frontier". (…) Without make-up: the literary execution of the idea is very poor, a hundred interesting possibilities have remained unexplored, but the pictures themselves are simply great and a downright triumph of technology. The trick of getting a plane onto a train is not the main thing, these are the wonderful shots from an airship that spirals up into pleasure in bold spirals, with the rotating landscape below and objects that are getting smaller and smaller. You sit in the machine yourself, as it were, and feel dizzy. These magnificent shots deserve to be viewed. Why can't the fable stand on the same level? When will our filmmakers finally understand that writers and poets are part of working out good ideas? "