The war brought peace
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| Original title | The war brought peace |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
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| Director | NN |
| production | Franz Vogel for Eiko, Berlin |
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The war brought peace is a German silent film from 1915 with Harry Liedtke in the male lead.
action
The core of the story is a classic ménage à trois, a man between two women. Hertha von Reutlingen, an officer's daughter, has long loved her childhood friend, the Baron von Wedell. She confides this secret to her close friend Lia von Hohenstein, who has been visiting Reutlingen for some time. When the young, handsome man visits Hertha, he also meets Lia. He quickly falls in love with the houseguest, who on the one hand reciprocates his feelings. On the other hand, Lia does not want to destroy the happiness of Hertha and, reluctantly, keeps the baron at a distance. During a soirée in the colonel's house, it overpowers the lovable baron and he kisses Lia coram publico. And this time the young noblewoman lets it happen. At this moment, Hertha joins them. She has to watch the scene shocked and then makes Lia serious allegations. Lia, for whom the friendship with Hertha weighs more than the happiness in love with Baron Wedell, now finally chooses the distance. She writes him a letter explaining why.
Then in August 1914 the war broke out and Wedell had to move in. He can quickly prove himself in the field and gets into so many dangerous situations. When the enemy attacks him in the moving car, he is able to escape the attackers. Wounded and exhausted, Wedell can find his way to his own people. For his daring efforts, Baron Wedell is awarded a medal of bravery. Nevertheless, he has to spend a while in the hospital, where Hertha, now doing her patriotic service as a nurse, nurses him to health. Although he is grateful to her, he keeps mentioning Lia's name in his feverish fantasies. Hertha realizes that Wedell's heart clearly belongs to her friend Lia and finally releases it. After his recovery, Hertha brings the two together and unites two lonely but connected hearts under the Christmas tree. But it remains the charitable commitment to the German soldiers fighting against the enemy.
Production notes
The war brought peace was created in April 1915 in the Eiko-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Marienfelde . The three-act act was censored in July 1915 and was initially banned for the duration of the First World War , probably due to pacifist tendencies . A new censorship in September 1915 lifted this total ban and released the film for showing. However, a youth ban was imposed. In Austria-Hungary, the film probably opened around Christmas 1915.
Contemporary history
In 1935, from a National Socialist point of view, Oskar Kalbus tried to classify this film genre under the chapter heading “Feldgrauer Filmkitsch”, which experienced a real boom in the German Reich in 1914 and 1915 in particular. He writes:
“A certain trunk of experienced film manufacturers could not be frightened, however. First of all, they let their manifold relationships play out in order to be exempted from military service, because they felt called to offer the German people sensational hits "panem et circensis" in their quieter homeland, bearing in mind an ancient Roman experience : Relaxation and distraction, encouragement and encouragement. The cinema should now offer all of this. It was hoped that the general joy in the victories of our army would give rise to the desire for communication, for distracting experiences and, above all, for people to be gathered together in the “little man's theater”. In addition to the current film recordings from the theaters of war, the field-gray film kitsch - or the so-called "patriotic" film of 1914/15. "
criticism
"A dramatic picture, the well-thought-out plot of which is well adapted to the atmospheric Christmas season and, thanks to more interesting images of war, seems to a certain extent topical."