The Lord Without a Home (1915)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The gentleman without an apartment |
| Country of production | Austria-Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 63 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz friend |
| script |
Rudolf Österreicher Bela Jenbach based on both comedies of the same name |
| production | Erich Pommer |
| camera | Ottmar Ostermayr |
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The man without a flat is an Austro-Hungarian silent film swan from 1915.
action
A fun-loving baron celebrates his farewell to a bachelorette party on a wet and cheerful bachelorette party. He would like to end the day in his regular café and is already quite tipsy when he arrives. When he wants to go out into the Viennese night sky again, he confuses his coat with that of a somewhat absent-minded medical professor named Mandling. A security guard, who sees the baron stumbling around, has an understanding and calls a Fiaker (Einspänner) for the obviously needy gentleman. The baron is so well trained that he only has a rudimentary address in his mind. It was something about No. 4, first floor, but the street has fallen out of his mind. Einspänner Kreindl is good-natured and ready to drive him past all house numbers 4, in the vague hope that the passenger will remember again. The carriage ride with the loyal gray horse Genoveva in front turns into a round trip all over Vienna until you stop in front of a breakfast bar in the morning. There the good-natured horse first receives his sack of oats and the coachman treats himself to a mug of beer. Finally, some of the night owls who were left over from last night stroll by and invite the Baron to join them to empty another bottle of champagne.
When one learns of the baron's fate, someone present has the glorious idea to search through the pockets of the gentleman without an apartment in order to possibly find a reference to his domicile there. And that's how you discover Prof. Mandling's address. In an exuberant champagne mood, the noblewoman is escorted by his new friends to the professorial apartment and dumped there. Hours earlier, the apartment owner hurried back to the café after discovering that he had put on the wrong coat and took it with him. After a series of further mix-ups, Prof. Mandling finally returns to his own apartment, where he finds the baron sleeping blissfully. A sleeping potion prepared by the professor finds the wrong way and ends up in the throat of the cab driver, whereupon of the protagonists only the good-natured mole Genoveva is reasonably awake and sober. But she has known the way to her home for 17 years and has found her stable without any human help after the baron, now sober and well rested, had stepped up to the driver's seat with his own hands and returned to his house. But now the Baron has to become rock solid, because today he is getting married. The single horse and his Genoveva have also come to the festival.
Production notes
The man without a flat was created in February 1915, passed the German film censorship in June of the same year and was then banned from showing in the Reich for the duration of the war. In Austria-Hungary, Der Herr ohne Wohnung started on September 8, 1915 as part of a special performance in the “Small Stage”. The mass start was New Year's Eve in 1915. The length of the three-act vehicle was given as 1150 meters.
The man without a flat was already shown two years earlier as a successful stage stunt in the Apollo Theater in Vienna .
A somewhat expanded remake of the comedy was made under the same name again in Vienna in 1934. Under the direction of EW Emo , Paul Hörbiger and Hermann Thimig played the main roles.
criticism
“If proof is to be provided once again that certain vacillating ideas can work better in the silent film image than on the speaking stage, then this proof is more than successful in the present case. (...) The film reproduces the authors' funniest ideas so expressively that the absence of the word is not even felt. (...) The presentation is first class. Brand as a Viennese taximeter, Waldau as a baron and Morgan as an absent-minded professor offer brilliant performances in the miniature drawing of real Viennese life. "