The fool of fate
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| Original title | The fool of fate |
| Country of production | Austria-Hungary / Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 54 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Felix Salten |
| script | Felix Salten based on his own model “The Flight” |
| production |
Paul Davidson (Berlin) Siegmund Philipp , Arnold Pressburger (Vienna) |
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The Fool of Fate is an Austro-German silent film drama from 1915 directed by Felix Salten with Rudolf Schildkraut in the lead role.
action
Schildkraut plays a little civil servant who becomes a cheat out of love for a capricious girl. With the embezzled money and his lover by his side, he flees Vienna by train in the direction of Trieste (at that time still part of Austria). During this escape, he loses first the money and then the unfaithful lover. Abandoned by everyone, the man in Trieste, who is now destitute in every respect, decides to put an end to his life, which now seems pointless to him.
Production notes
The Fool of Fate was created in 1915, depending on the source, immediately after the previous Schildkraut film The Eighth Commandment in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof or in the Vienna open-air studio of the Philipp & Pressburger company and measured a length of 1000 to 1130 meters by three Files. After a special screening in the Fleischmann cinema in Vienna in July 1915, the film had its German premiere in 1916 in UT on Kurfürstendamm. In the co-producing Austria-Hungary, the film was postponed for the general public because of the war.
criticism
"First of all, the Vienna Schildkraut film" The Fool of Fate "should be mentioned, which was recorded in the Philipp & Pressburger company's own open-air studio and in which Schildkraut performs a masterpiece."