The onyx button
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The onyx button |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hans Oberlander Joe May |
| script | Joe May E.A. Dupont |
| production | Joe May |
| camera | Curt Courant |
| occupation | |
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The Onyx Button is a 1917 crime film in the Joe Deebs film series .
action
A man finds the note in his apartment in which his wife asks him to pick her up from the train station in the evening because she drove to her mother during the day. Before he wants to pick her up, he visits the studio of a painter friend and, to his horror, finds his wife's body there. He comes under suspicion, as do several other people. In the end, it turns out that Joe Deebs' lover was the jealous killer.
background
The film was produced by May-Film GmbH Berlin (No. 20). The buildings were created by Uwe Jens Krafft , and the film was shot in July 1917. It has a length of four acts at 1,867 meters, approx. 102 minutes. The Berlin police issued a youth ban in September 1917 (40941), the Munich police forbade the announcement as a detective film (No. 25298, 25299, 25300, 25301). The world premiere was on September 28th in the Tauentzien-Palast in Berlin.
For 18-year-old Curt Courant , who made his debut as head cameraman in 1917, The Onyx Button was one of his first films.
Web links
- The onyx button at The German Early Cinema Database
- The onyx button at filmportal.de
- The Onyxknopf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The onyx button at the Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3