The miller and his child (Austria, 1911)
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| Original title | The miller and his child |
| Country of production | Austria-Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1911 |
| length | 22 minutes |
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| Director | Walter Friedmann |
| production | Austro-Hungarian cinema industry ( Anton Kolm , Jacob Fleck ) |
| camera | Joseph Delmont |
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The miller and his child is an Austrian silent film from 1911. It is the oldest fully preserved Austrian feature film .
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A poor miller's son wants to marry a rich miller's daughter, but her widowed father is vicious and stingy and harasses the lovers in a vicious way. The bird of death and the ghost of the cemetery herald the approaching end of the miller and his innocent daughter.
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Like the German film version from the same year, the plot is based on the late romantic drama by Ernst Raupach , which premiered with great success at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1830 and was then performed annually in many theaters up to the 20th century during All Saints' Day .
According to the manufacturer, the length of the film was around 600 m of the highly flammable 35 mm nitrate film . The drama was shot in two acts in 19 shots and achieved a playing time of 21 minutes and 50 seconds at a frame rate of 16 frames per second, as was common in early silent films. Although the Filmarchiv Austria , which stores the film, has almost 150 meters less of film material, the plot of the film is complete; only the ends on the individual rolls of film are too abrupt and the end of the 19th take is missing.
The later animal and crime film director Joseph Delmont was responsible for the scenic and technical direction . a. operated the camera manually with the crank.
The film premiered on October 21, 1911 in a Vienna cinema.
The Munich police banned the film (No. 9905, 9906).