The tyrant of Muckendorf
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| Original title | The tyrant of Muckendorf |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 65 minutes |
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| production | Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers |
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The Tyrann von Muckendorf is a German silent film amusement from 1915 by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers . The title role was played by the royal Bavarian court actor Konrad Dreher .
action
Germany at the beginning of the First World War : Sebastian Sulzbeck, head of the Muckendorf estate, is a little tyrant. His imposing appearance and his own claim not to tolerate any contradictions have made him a respected but also a little feared despot of the small local community. Today, despite gout pain , he decided to visit his sister in Bimmelstedt. Sebastian's daughter Else also lives there. Sulzbeck's little bit of trouble is troubling him, and the pain pushes his mood to an as yet unknown low point. A young painter who has dared to sit down on his meadow to indulge in her art comes in handy for the old crosshead. With his wagon he drives so close to the young artist that she is scared to death and plops into the adjoining stream. Not that the old grumbler would now rush to her help, no: he also sniffs at her that bathing is forbidden here! But the young painter did not fall on her mouth and, barely got out of the water, she scolded him with a torrent of speech in the ground.
Two weeks later. Sulzbeck has sat down at his regular table in the Dorfkrug and extensively discusses Hindenburg's war tactics in the east. The community servant appears and hands him a summons to court. The painter has sued him, and Sulzbeck is ordered to pay ten marks. Delighted that he can get away with it so cheaply, he grossly offers to pay 20 marks straight away. This is viewed by the court as improper behavior and has now brought the cross button three hours of arrest. After serving his sentence, Sulzbeck meets with his sister, of all people, the assessor Schubert who was his counterpart, the public prosecutor, in his criminal case. As expected, Sulzbeck is not at all good on this gentleman, especially since that very Schubert wanted to pay his respects to his daughter. Sulzbeck quickly forces the departure of his adversary, not yet realizing that delicate bonds have developed between assessor Schubert and daughter Else.
Days later, Schubert travels to Bad Salzschlirf in Hesse to meet a couple of actors he knows. He asks both of them for advice on how best to get hold of Miss Sulzbeck. Schubert's friend Mizzi knows what to do. On the same evening she appeared on stage in a comedy. As luck would have it, the tyrant von Muckendorf is currently in Bad Salzschlirf. In the imagination, he can't keep his eyes off Mizzi and then lets her invite him to supper. The confidential tête-à-tête , however, is suddenly disturbed by the appearance of Mizzi's husband, so that Sebastian goes head over heels and returns to Muckendorf. He doesn't know that he has become part of a great production. Because Mizzi travels after him and begs Sulzbeck to protect her from her jealous husband. He then appears promptly in Muckendorf, with his revolver drawn, and stands guard in front of Sulzbeck's house.
The arriving Else has an "ingenious" idea to safely maneuver her father and his alleged lover out of his four walls. She wants her father to dress up as a farmer's wife and Mizzi as a farmer's boy. In fact, they manage to escape in this masquerade, and Sebastian and Mizzi hide in the local syringe house . There, however, Sulzbeck learns that this place is the place of a secret rendezvous between Else and Schubert. When the public prosecutor appears, Sulzbeck unceremoniously locks him up in the syringe house, throws himself into the fire department uniform and calls the rest of the fire fighters to the alarm. He believes that if you open the syringe house again, you would “catch” Mizzi in intimate togetherness with Schubert, but oh shock: suddenly there is daughter Else at Schubert's side. Now the old crosshead has no choice but to give his Else to the unloved assessor Schubert to wife, so that her decency and respectability are not in doubt.
Production notes
The Tyrann von Muckendorf , probably shot in the early summer of 1915 with outdoor shots in and around Bad Salzschlirf (Hesse), was created with the help of members of the Schliersee Farmers Theater . The three-act play produced or loaned by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers with a length of around 1200 meters passed the film censorship in August 1915 and was probably shown in October of the same year at the Kammerlichtspiele Munich in Kaufingerstr. 28 premiered.
Who directed it is currently just as unknown as the entire technical staff. Main actor Dreher is said to have made his film debut here.
criticism
"Apart from the fact that the plot alone produces an abundance of the funniest moments and most delightful scenes, this impression is made possible by the participation of the royal. bayer. Court actor Konrad Dreher, who has excellent facial expressions and downright gripping comedy, increased to the max. Each of his movements is also strikingly true to nature. He gives the role of headmaster of Muckendorf. How true-to-life he has learned to listen to a piece of reality from its funniest side. This always angry, imperious being, of the despot not used to contradiction, under whose rule everything trembles, and how delicious the broad comfort is when the sternness is in a good mood. "