The weather warden
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The weather warden |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | approx. 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Froelich |
| script |
Hugo Huxhol Curt Lauermann |
| production |
Erich Pommer Carl Froelich |
| camera | Otto Tober , Vilmos Fényes , Willi Ruge , Willibald Gaebel |
| occupation | |
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Der Wetterwart is a German chamber play from 1923 by Carl Froelich .
action
The (largely) four-person piece is about a woman who is not identified by name and who is as sophisticated and attractive as she is thoughtless and soulless. She likes to play with the men and sometimes shows a cold sadism. One of the men who adore her and cross her path is the baron, whom she met in a winter mountain and spa hotel. This man, a mixture of sportsman, aviator and accomplished idiot, told her one day about the weather station high on the ridge, where an old, recently widowed scholar and his son, who was barely of age, devoted himself entirely to meteorological research. According to the baron, she, the "lady killer", is guaranteed to grit her teeth on both of them, because these two men have completely different ideas and are guaranteed not to be interested in their seduction games. This arouses the lady's interest and hunting instinct.
When the baron took off on a short sightseeing flight with his plane the following morning, during which he was planning to pass the weather station, the interested lady joined in. But now the beautiful woman wants to go all out and get to know the weather warden and son personally. The baron, who has long since become the compliant, stupid August of the lady, is forced to join her. The lady fakes a sprain on her foot and tells the hermits on her ward that she cannot leave this place again anytime soon. The baron, who had a very uncomfortable first night due to the limited space, decides the next morning to fly back into the valley, especially since he is only the fifth wheel on the car here anyway.
The lady now begins to let her charm play and ignites with the feelings of the two men who have not had a strange woman around them for a long time. The old, gnarled weather warden begins to develop an interest in this creature, who comes from a completely different world, as does the 18-year-old son, whose glow is quickly kindled for the lady. The junior, who is not up to this woman's dangerous game and takes things too much to heart, is found one morning by his father, frozen to death, in the snow in front of the weather station. He has voluntarily delivered himself to death by cold because he probably believed that, unlike his father, he had no chance with her. Only now does Madame realize the effect of her actions. Soon afterwards several mountain guides arrive who are supposed to escort the lady safely back into the valley to her spa hotel. The lady, who can seriously imagine a life at the side of the weather warden, is now being rejected for the first time. Not only does the man reject her desire to stay; full of contempt, he even urged them to hurry to leave.
Production notes
The Wetterwart was created in the winter of 1922/23, passed film censorship on April 28, 1923 and was banned from young people. The premiere took place in the same year. The six-stroke engine was 2276 meters long.
The film structures were created by Hans Sohnle and Otto Erdmann , whose first work this was obviously. The relatively large number of cameramen was due to the various special recordings (in the mountains, from the plane, etc.).
criticism
In Vienna's Neue Freie Presse , the issue of January 29, 1924 said: "A chamber play of the highest quality, apparently the fruit of the latest ... victorious artistic tendencies in German film. (...) This film is one of the best we have ever seen The direction deserves the highest praise. The images of the glacier world and especially the shots from the plane are unheard of, are overwhelming. Mady Christian (the lady), Albert Steinrück (the weather warden), Hans Brausewetter (his son) and Julius Falkenstein (the Baron). Your achievements are simply perfect. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The weather warden". In: Neue Freie Presse , January 29, 1924, p. 16 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- The weather warden at filmportal.de
- The Wetterwart in the Internet Movie Database (English)