The man in the quarry
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| Original title | The man in the quarry |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 65, 61 minutes |
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| Director | Einar Zangenberg |
| script | Robert Heymann |
| production | Flora-Film GmbH, Berlin |
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The man in the quarry is a German silent film drama by and with Einar Zangenberg .
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Bert Ringstetten is considered a brilliant engineer. The large landowner, Count von Rüdersheim, wants to take advantage of Ringstetten's ability and asks him to create a large transport lane for the mineral resources to be extracted from the count's quarry. Baroness Eva, the Count's daughter, quickly takes a liking to the neat and talented engineer, and the two grow closer. This, in turn, displeases one of the Count's nephews, Joachim von Rüdersheim, very much. Senior engineer Geltern grudges his colleague Ringstetten his professional success. Joachim in turn shows his own interest in Eva. When he tries to land with her, he flashes off the young lady who has long since decided on her Bert. The old count also likes his daughter's relationship with his employee, which he does not consider to be befitting of his class, and so Ringstetten is dismissed from old Rüdersheim without further ado when he marries his daughter Eva.
The young fortune is short of money from the start, and the situation does not improve when the old count blesses the time. In his will, Rüdersheim senior decreed that his nephew should manage the assets he left behind as long as daughter Eva is married to the social “parvenu” Ringstetten. It doesn't help. One day Eva has to go to Canossa, to see cousin Joachim, and ask him for money from her father's fortune. But this lets her drain off because she is not ready to endure his intrusiveness. Bert has secretly followed his wife and believes he caught them both on a tender date. Buckled, he goes to the quarry to kill himself there. There he discovers the body of the envious chief engineer. Geltern had stolen Ringstetten's invention and, with it in his luggage, set out for a career as director of an electricity company. But he could not use the invention and so he put an end to his life in frustration.
Ringstetten takes his employment contract and papers and takes up his post as the new electricity manager Geltern in Eisenfeld. Bert left his own coat and the revolver with which the disfigured chief engineer had shot himself. Eva, who finds the corpse with Bert's coat in search of her husband, believes that she has discovered her husband. Joachim ran after Eva and tried again to win over the alleged widow Eva, but was again rejected. Joachim then makes sure that Eva is arrested and charged with her husband's murder. Her husband, aka the false parents, hears about the trial and appears in the courtroom. With that the charge collapses, and both clear up the misunderstanding about the misunderstood encounter between Eva and Joachim. Bert and his wife make up again.
Production notes
The man in the quarry was written in 1916 and premiered in Berlin's Mozart Hall in April 1917. The film length of the three- or four-act act was, depending on the censorship version, 1333 or 1261 meters. A youth ban was issued.
Reviews
“Einar Zangenberg… guarantees the complete success of the picture with his excellent game. Another advantage of the "man in the quarry" is the criminal act [sic!] Of the subject, which is excellently worked out. "