Eternal doubt

Movie
Original title	Eternal doubt
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1918
length	41 minutes
Rod
Director	Richard Oswald
script	EA Dupont
production	Deutsche Lichtbild-Gesellschaft eV, Berlin
music	Bernd Schultheis
camera	Max Fassbender
occupation
Leonhard Haskel : Max Thomas Johanna Terwin : Henriette, his wife Arthur Wellin : Paul Brünner Ernst Pittschau : Georg Brünner / Thomas (as an adult) Nelly Guttmann : Georg Brünner / Thomas (as a child) Martha Altenberg : Housekeeper

The Eternal Doubt is a German silent film drama from 1918 by Richard Oswald .

action

Max Thomas and his wife Henriette are constantly fighting. The barrel overflows when Max finds out that his wife is cheating on him with another man. He then throws Henriette out of his four walls. But she is not willing to simply accept her expulsion and takes revenge on Max by questioning his fatherhood on the couple's son.

Many years have passed. Max Thomas is an old, broken man. His life a mess. He gets drunk every day. Before he dies, his son Georg returns home and makes it clear to Max that of course only he is his biological father.

Production notes

The eternal doubt passed film censorship in February 1918 and premiered the following month. On February 18, 2000, the TV first broadcast on ARTE

criticism

The lexicon of international film says: "Great melodrama that tells an existential story with the simplest of means."

Web links

• The eternal doubt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The eternal doubt at filmportal.de
• The Eternal Doubt at The German Early Cinema Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Eternal Doubt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .