The foreign prince

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title The foreign prince
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1918
length approx. 75 minutes
Rod
Director Paul Wegener
script Paul Wegener
production Paul Davidson for PAGU, Berlin
camera Frederik Fuglsang
occupation

The Foreign Prince is a German feature film from 1918 by and with Paul Wegener .

action

As the subtitle suggests, this is a "drama of racial differences".

It tells the story of Hidde Yori, the dark-skinned son of an island prince. Yori is the heir to the throne of a tiny paradise and is on a business trip in Europe when he falls in love with the light-skinned Eva, the daughter of a wealthy German businessman. Your father doesn't like this connection at all, as he dreamed of something completely different as a son-in-law. Old Brodersen tries to influence his daughter in his own way. But Eva has a mind of her own. She has fallen in love with the exotic man from a distant world and follows Yori.

But Brodersen does not give up and tries to torpedo happiness, which seems to him like a single great mesalliance , by turning off the money tap for Eva. Eva Brodersen no longer receives any financial support, so that her young fortune quickly gets into severe turbulence. She soon has to suffer great economic hardship, especially since her prince's son is powerful, but anything but rich. She decides to look for a job and starts working as an exotic dancer in a variety theater. Yori himself becomes addicted to opium and treats Eva more and more with his excessive jealousy. Eventually she separates from Yori and returns to home and father. Yori, unable to cope with this loss, finally goes mad and dies.

Production notes

The original four-act film was made in the final phase of the First World War in the summer of 1918 in the Ufa Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof . It passed the censorship in September 1918, received a youth ban and was premiered two months later in the UT Kurfürstendamm. He was re-censored on May 21, 1921. This time the film was expanded to five acts.

As was so often the case during the war, Wegener, the silhouette specialist and title designer Lotte Reiniger and the set designer Rochus Gliese also worked closely together here. Gliese created the film structures and also took on a supporting supporting role with the part of Düssing.

The Strange Prince , a little-noticed side work, is one of the most unknown productions by the actor-director Wegener and was hardly noticed by the critics, especially since the film was premiered in the extremely turbulent transition period from the end of the war to the proclamation of the republic.

Web links