The last day (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The last day |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 72 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Mack |
| script | Paul Lindau |
| production | Julius Greenbaum for Vitascope GmbH, Berlin |
| camera | Hermann Boettger |
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The Last Day is a German silent film drama from 1913 with the married couple Albert and Else Bassermann in the leading roles.
action
The film is designed like a chamber play in flashback. An old professor remembers the crucial day in his life when he killed his wife. The cause of this act of desperation was the bitter and deeply shocking realization that his wife had a lover and had been cheating on him for some time. It should be Prof. Osterode's last day, because when he decides to kill himself, he dies of natural causes.
Production notes
The last day was done in the Vitascope studio at Lindenstrasse 32–34. The film passed film censorship on August 13, 1913 and was premiered on September 19, 1913 in the Kammerlichtspiele on Potsdamer Platz. The five-stroke had a length of 1317 meters.
The buildings are by Hermann Warm .
After the overwhelming success of Der Andere , the same team - Vitascope producer Greenbaum, director Mack, cameraman Böttger, leading actors Bassermann and Weisse - got together again to create another auteur film. Nevertheless, The Last Day did not get nearly the same response as the much more famous film shortly before.
criticism
“The Vitaskop in Berlin, which is currently developing strong skills for literary film, has done a very good job here too. (...) The last act, which the preceding ones effectively prepare, is dramatically gripping. Death between the graves of the woman and her lover is harrowing. "
Web links
- The last day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The last day at The German Early Cinema Database
- The last day at filmportal.de