A maid's novel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A maid's novel |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1921 |
| length | approx. 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Reinhold Schünzel |
| script | Robert Liebmann |
| production |
Victor Micheluzzi Reinhold Schünzel for Micco-Film Vienna-Berlin |
| camera | Theodor Sparkuhl |
| occupation | |
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The novel of a maid is an Austrian-German fictional film made in 1921 by and with Reinhold Schünzel . Liane Haid embodies the female lead and title role .
action
A pretty, young and innocent country girl comes one day to the “Den of Sins” Berlin to take up a job as the second housemaid in the family of the Baron von Birthal. The baron has two grown-up children, a son who is a dissolute gambler and philanderer who will one day snatch his own mother's precious jewelry to cover his accumulating debts. The daughter of the nobleman is far less degenerate, but she has a relationship with a sculptor that is not felt to be particularly befitting. The extensive staff at Birthal is also very colorful: the first, somewhat buxom maid, for example, has an amorous relationship with the son of the greengrocer next door.
This sleazy guy, a waiter by profession in a big hotel, is a real hallodri: although he is in a relationship with the buxom housemaid, he immediately seduces the innocence of the country, as soon as he saw it, and impregnates the (now no longer so innocent) Maid at once. From now on things are going downhill for the new maid: not only with illegitimate pregnancy, she is also suspected of stealing Madame's jewels, which, as mentioned before, are in the hands of the family's long-fingered son. Then she is shamefully abandoned by her pollinator. The maid then tries to kill herself. But despite all the misfortune, her rescue approaches in the form of the elderly house servant, who loves the girl dearly and finally marries her.
Production notes
The Roman of a Maid , subtitled A People's Play of Today's Big City , was an early German-Austrian co-production shortly after the end of the First World War. The film was made in Vienna from May to June 1921 and premiered on November 17, 1921 in Berlin's Marble House . In Vienna, the melodrama, which was 2078 meters long, divided into five acts, started on December 2, 1921.
The film structures come from OF Werndorff and Karl Machus . The recordings with the actor Emil Birron , who played the sculptor, fell victim to the film censorship scissors. In July 1921, the censors also criticized the generally exposed, excessive immorality of the picture strip and, moreover, the Berlin slang in the subtitles, which, firstly, could hardly be understood outside the capital and, secondly, left the impression that the moral reprehensibility shown would leave typical Berliners Attributes are.
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The material is very popular, the scenery, photos and especially the game are excellent. A hit of the first order. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Censorship decisions of July 14th and 27th, 1921
- ↑ The novel of a maid in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- The novel of a maid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The novel of a maid at filmportal.de