The power man

Movie
Original title	The power man
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1915
Rod
Director	Ernst Lubitsch
script	Ernst Lubitsch
production	Paul Davidson; for projection group "Union"
occupation
	Ernst Lubitsch : Couch Potato;

Der Kraftmeier , also Der Kraftmeyer , is a German silent film in one act by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is one of the director's lost films.

content

A thin couch potato buys a tonic that gives him undreamt-of strength. Thanks to his new strength, he breaks open the floor of his room, then falls into the depths and ends up in Africa . He later gets rid of his unloved mother-in-law and ends up with his wife in a fireplace that was destroyed by his fall.

production

The shooting took place in the Ufa Union studios in Tempelhof near Berlin . Kurt Richter created the buildings. In November 1915, censorship banned the film from young people.

As in Lubitsch's Fräulein Seifenschaum (1915) and a short time later in Blindekuh (1915), Der Kraftmeier " revolved around the well-known plot that the future mother-in-law absolutely does not like the young man her daughter wants to marry."

Web links

The force Meier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The Kraftmeier in the online film database
The Kraftmeier at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

^ Contents according to E .: Der Kraftmeyer . In: Der Film , No. 48, November 30, 1919.
↑ Harro Segeberg, Knut Hickethier, Corinna Müller (eds.): Die Modellierung des Kinofilms: on the history of the cinema program between short film and feature film 1905 / 06–1918 . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1998, p. 310.

[1] Contents according to E .: Der Kraftmeyer . In: Der Film , No. 48, November 30, 1919.

[2] Harro Segeberg, Knut Hickethier, Corinna Müller (eds.): Die Modellierung des Kinofilms: on the history of the cinema program between short film and feature film 1905 / 06–1918 . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1998, p. 310.