The shadow of the sea
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| Original title | The shadow of the sea |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1912 |
| length | about 38 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Curt A. Stark |
| script | inspired by an East Frisian legend, "The Gonger" |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| camera | Carl Froelich |
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The Shadow of the Sea is a ballad-like, German silent film melodrama from 1912 with Henny Porten in the lead role.
action
Evelyne, a young painter, has temporarily moved from the big city to the sea, where she hopes for inspiration for her work. One afternoon she sits there, lost in thought, immersed in her sketches and drawings, and does not even notice the rising water around her. The tide is coming! She later realizes the dire situation and then panics. Rescue approaches in the form of the young fisherman Sven Nansen, who saves the thoughtless woman from drowning. The brief encounter leaves a strong impression on both of them. Evelyne can't get her likable savior out of her head, and the young fisherman also begins to be very interested in the cosmopolitan lady from the city.
Evelyne overhears a conversation between Nansen and his mother. She accuses her son of not caring enough for his fiancée Inge. This news comes as a shock to Evelyne, since she didn't know that Nansen was not unbound. And so she leaves the beach and the sea, because she doesn't want to stand between him and anyone else. For Sven Nansen, the news of Evelyne's departure is a serious shock. Out of desperation and grief, he goes out to sea in his fishing boat with the intention of drowning himself in the waves. Evelyn knows nothing of this tragic development. Months later, she wrote a letter to Nansen, but it was returned with the note “addressee deceased”. Evelyne can't figure it out and drives to the place where she first met Nansen. There she only meets Sven's mother and Inge.
Production notes
The shadow of the sea was shot in the Messter-Film-Atelier in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, the outdoor shots in the summer of 1912 on the Swedish island of Kullen . The film passed the censorship in October 1912 and had its world premiere on December 7, 1912. The length of the two-act was about 38 minutes.
classification
“From the original, an East Frisian legend,“ The Gonger ”, the film made use of the mythical to teach the cheeky female gaze a lesson. But the camera is consistently documenting; The film is excellent in the exterior shots of the ocean waves, the rocky beach, the dunes and the fishermen's cottages filmed on the island of Kullen. The heroine of the story is, so to speak, an emancipated woman, a young painter. On one of her excursions she falls in love with the young fisherman who saves those who have sunk into painting and who do not notice the approaching tide. The fisherman does not remain indifferent to her either, but he is engaged. Evelyn, the painter, withdraws when she notices the suffering that she is in love with. She leaves the island ... and the deadly fate of the woman takes its course. "