The ermine coat
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The ermine coat |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | about 60 minutes |
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| Director | Walter Schmidthässler |
| script | Karl Vollmöller |
| production | German Bioscop, Berlin |
| camera | Hermann Boettger |
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The Hermelin Coat is a German silent film fun play from 1915 with Maria Carmi in the leading role.
action
Countess Elvira Hochheimer is celebrating her birthday today. Numerous admirers sent her flowers early in the morning on this occasion, only her own husband forgot and instead left the house early to celebrate name day with two friends, Lory and Leonore. First his way leads to a fashion salon, where he has ordered an ermine coat for Leonore. The good piece is as good as finished, only the salon operator would like to display it as decoration in his shop window for a short time. The count doesn't mind. Meanwhile, Elvira takes a trip to the city park on her festive day, where she meets another ardent admirer with Fernando de Vargas. When he asks what he could do to please her, Madame replies - quite immodestly - that she had just seen an ermine coat in the window of a fashion salon during the drive ...
Fernando rushes to the salon, but to his regret learns from the owner that the good piece has already been sold. The count also drives up a little later to pick up the ermine coat and give it to his friend Leonore as a present. But when he gets to her, the young artist is just rehearsing a scene with a tenor. The count's jealousy boils over, and monsieur goes hastily to his other friend, Lory. With her, too, he thinks that he has caught the young woman in an “infidelity”, and so furiously he gives the coat to the salon employees who came with him to try on the ermine. The same evening she performed her gem with a swollen chest when she attended a ball with her boyfriend. Such a young girl with such an expensive coat naturally attracts a lot of attention.
Count Horchheimer only returns home in the evening. At that time, his darling listens thoughtfully to the readings of the present poet Heinz Lobegold. Before the jealous husband of the gods can notice the presence of a strange man in her count's salon, Elvira sees to it that Lobegold seeks and finds the distance. The count now notices the sea of flowers in his house and it becomes painfully clear to him that he has forgotten his wife's birthday. Now he is desperately looking for an excuse for his faux pas and insolently claims that he was only looking for a suitable gift for these jubilee days. He claims that he also found something: an ermine coat! Madame is delighted, and the Count Filou sets off in no time at all in search of the maid in order to unbutton her coat. He finally struck gold at the ball. The count buys back his former property for a substantial sum and can make his wife happy with this gift.
Production notes
The ermine coat was created in the Bioscop studio in Neubabelsberg and had its world premiere in September 1915 in the Berlin Mozart Hall. The length of the three-acter was 1093 meters.
The buildings are designed by Robert A. Dietrich
criticism
“A successful comedy written by Karl Vollmoeller and directed by Schmidthässler. In this picture we see Maria Carmi as Countess Elvira, who is splendidly adapted to her noble nature. "