The millionaire uncle

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Movie
Original title The millionaire uncle
Country of production Austria-Hungary
original language German
Publishing year 1913
length 60 minutes
Rod
Director Hubert Marischka ,
Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky (auxiliary direction)
script Ernst Marischka ,
Hubert Marischka
production Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky for the Sascha film
music Robert proud
occupation
  • Alexander Girardi : Pufferl, Valentin, Drechsler, Mucki Vierröckl, ballet master, Gottlieb Weigl, poor Jonathan, brother Straubinger, security guard, cyclist, the locksmith king, postman Flenz, Fiaker, the uncle of millions, Janos, Célestin, the gypsy primate, the top climber, Torelli , Marchese Sebastiano, Kasim Pascha, the Nazi, the ash man, the bird dealer, the beggar student, Benozzo, Zsúpan, Godibert, Pülcher, Profoss, frog, judge.
  • Hubert Marischka : Count Waldersberg and director
  • Hilde Radnay : Elsie, his wife
  • Marietta Weber : Mela Fellner, an actress
  • Bernhard Baumeister : Spectators
  • Alexander Kolowrat: producer
  • Leo Fall : Conductor
  • Pepi Augustin : fat security guard, called "the fat eye of the law"
  • Miss Merion or Marion: Girardi's partner in a stage scene

The millionaire uncle is an Austrian feature film from 1913. Under the direction of Hubert Marischka , the famous stage actor and tenor Alexander Girardi played over 30 of his most famous theater roles.

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Embedded in a short framework story, Alexander Girardi, who was 63 when shooting, presents a selection of his most famous stage roles with which he has celebrated the greatest successes in his long career: Among other things, he plays the Pufferl from the operetta of the same name, the Valentin from Der Verschwender , the turner from Little Brother Fine , the Mucki Vierröckl from A poor girl , the Gottlieb Weigl from Mein Leopold , the poor Jonathan , the brother Straubinger and the security guard from Die Wienerstadt in words and pictures , the locksmith from the operetta of the same name and the postman Flenz in He and his sister , the millionaire uncle and Janos from Hot Blood , the Celestin from Mamselle Nitouche , the Gypsy Primas , the Obersteiger , the Torelli from artist blood , the Marchese Sebastiano from The Merry War , the Kasim Pascha from Princess Ninetta , the Ash Man from Der Farmer as a millionaire , the bird dealer , the beggar student , the Benozzo from Gasparone , the Zsúpan from The Gypsy Baron , the Godibert from Die Jungfrau von Belleville , the Profoss from Heimliche Liebe and the frog from Die Fledermaus .

Background and production notes

The millionaire uncle is considered the first large-scale film production in Austria, for which (for example, the Kruger cinema in Vienna I.) was advertised with superlatives such as the following: " The greatest sensation for Vienna !: Girardi in film ". The shooting of The Millionaire took about five weeks and took place between the end of March and the beginning of May 1913. The film was shot on Vienna's streets, in the Engerthstrasse open-air theater, in the Biberstrasse roof studio and in the summer arena in Baden near Vienna .

Girardi was also responsible for the mostly humorous intertitles . Ernst Marischka , who was then 20 years old and director of the Sissi trilogy 1955–1957, made his debut as a screenwriter here.

The celebratory premiere of The Millionaire Uncle took place on September 10, 1913 in the Beethovensaal in Vienna . Operetta composer Robert Stolz , who made his film debut here, was present at the premiere and personally conducted the Haupt Salonkapelle .

The length of the film, which consists of five acts, was 1,700 meters, which corresponds to around an hour of playing time. With around a quarter of a million crowns , The Millionaire Uncle was the most expensive film in the country to date. Nevertheless, it has recovered its costs, the film was considered an economic success both in Austria-Hungary and in the German Empire . This may also have been due to the fact that producer Kolowrat was the first film manufacturer to use targeted advertising and had a special Girardi number published as a special edition of the Kinematographische Rundschau .

Similar to Max Mack's The Other with Albert Bassermann and Stellan Ryes The Student from Prague with Paul Wegener in Germany in the same year (1913) , The Millionuncle was the attempt to lead the film in Austria-Hungary out of the orbit of a fairground amusement and with the help of the respected Theater actor Girardi artistically upgraded this previously poorly regarded medium. Girardi's participation made the premiere in front of invited guests “a social event”.

Girardi, who had described the millionaire uncle as ' the greatest tour of his life ', gave the following statement at a press conference on the occasion of the film premiere: “ Judging by your expressions, you seem to believe that an artist will commit a little disloyalty to his art if he puts himself at the service of the film. I don't think so. The fact that not only the masses flock to the cinema, that it also attracts the educated audience, has its deep and well-founded reasons . "

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Fraenkel : Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Kindler Verlag Munich 1956. p. 84
  2. ↑ The million uncle in: Sascha Film. Alexander Joseph "Sascha" Kolowrat Krakowsky. A brief historical overview by Helmut Spitzer (PDF; 132 kB)
  3. ↑ cit. n. Fraenkel, p. 238
  4. ↑ cit. n. The Austrian film. A picture book by Arthur Gottlein , published by the Austrian Society for Film Studies, Communication and Media Research. P. 41, Vienna 1976