The money devil
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The money devil |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Heinz Goldberg |
| script | Heinz Goldberg Erich Pabst |
| production | Hilde Woerner |
| camera | Max Lutze |
| occupation | |
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Der Geldteufel is a German silent film by Heinz Goldberg from 1923 with Otto Fee in the leading role.
action
The clerk of the law firm Leonid Fenton is a well-behaved and thoroughly reliable, small employee: poor and shy, but very idealistic. In his spare time he is a hobby poet and writes enthusiastic lines for his beloved, the beautiful Fraulein Cyprienne. She is also not well off and lives off her meager income. Cyprienne lives in a poor attic room in Leonid's mother's house. Every time Fenton tries to open his heart to the young beauty, his shyness tightens his throat, even though Cyprienne does reciprocate his feelings. Leonid Fenton believes that everything would work out better for him if he were rich and powerful. Fenton would give almost anything for it!
One day an old man appears in the office where Fenton is doing his job. The old man is considered the richest man in the area. As a result of this encounter, all of Fenton's fortunes change in a peculiar way, which ultimately turn out to be daydreaming with a charitable background. In any case, Fenton is temporarily relieved of his “suffering” of poverty and now gets to know in a dream and at breathtaking speed incredible wealth and monumental splendor. At Fenton's side stands and walks a devious companion named Black, who turns out to be a dangerous whisperer. Awakened from his short dream of monetary abundance and back into poverty and reality, Fenton is now at least getting to know true love.
Production notes
The money devil was created in the spring of 1923, passed film censorship on August 30, 1923 and was premiered in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . The film was 2252 meters long, divided into six acts. A youth ban was issued.
criticism
The Neue Freie Presse wrote: “This film wants to preach something like wisdom. Power and gold are not luck. Not everything can be bought in the world. True feeling triumphs over all appearance and brilliance, etc. Certainly nothing new. But at least it can't hurt if such doctrines of salvation are proclaimed to the people not only from the pulpit, but also from the screen (...) Otto Fee, the hero obsessed with madness in his dreams, is excellent in his game and mask. His partner is the beautiful Alexandra Sorina, whose game is sometimes of the most haunting effect. Carl Forest strives with success to give the figure of the "old" the necessary eeriness. Also very good is John Gottowt in the Mephistophelian figure of the treacherous and devoted pioneer on the unscrupulous express march to the height of power. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The Money Devil". In: Neue Freie Presse , April 1, 1924, p. 17 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- The money Devil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The money devil at filmportal.de