The Swedish Rider's Ring
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| Original title | The Swedish Rider's Ring |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | approx. 62 minutes |
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| Director | Stellan Rye |
| script | Stellan Rye |
| production | German bioscop |
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The Swedish Rider's Ring is a fantastic German silent film drama directed by Stellan Rye from 1913.
action
The film is based on an old legend. A long time ago, a Swede gave his ring to a young woman from the Spree Forest with the assurance that from now on her loved one would only be loyal to her and only love her. One day her descendant finds this ring in her closet and immediately puts it on her fingers. She meets the rich landowner next door, with whom she has fallen in love for quite some time, and indeed: the ring causes the married landowner to return her love and be loyal to her. When the girl loses the ring one day, the man immediately turns away from her. A good-for-nothing living in the daytime, who prefers to hang around the landlord's sawmill, will find the gem. The landlord, who always cleaned up the kid, is suddenly very loving and only says kindnesses to him.
Soon, however, the magic ring was being given to the landlady as a gift. Suddenly the wife, who has begged and courted her husband's affection for so long, is suddenly showered with him. Only when the Spreewald woman explains the magic of the ring does the landlady throw away the ring, disappointed, because she wants to be loved for her own sake and not be a plaything of magic. The girl picks up the ring that brought so much harm to the people and hurls it into a lake until it sinks to the bottom. A mermaid lives in the lake, who seizes the Schweden-Ring and lures the lord of the manor to the lake with her murmur of love. But this means the downfall of the man; his corpse swims on the water the following morning.
Production notes
The Swedish Rider's Ring was created in the early autumn of 1913 in the Bioscop studio in Neubabelsberg and in the Spreewald (outdoor photos). The three-act film with a length of 1128 meters passed the film censorship in October 1913 and was premiered on May 29, 1914 in the Berlin Biophon-Theater. In Austria-Hungary, the strip started at the beginning of the First World War.
criticism
"... the three-act drama" The Ring of the Swedish Rider "... is an excellent work of aesthetic invention. (...) The film has monstrous-looking beauties with a poetic content. Sometimes the mood turns into the finest comedy humor, but soon you find that soft sentimentality that is inherent in the fairy-tale character of the pretty film image up to the end. The magnificent shots of the lake with its birch banks and forest fringes create a great atmosphere. Grete Berger and Carl Clewing are excellent in the leading roles. "