The Black Hussar (1915)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The black hussar |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Piel |
| script | Harry Piel |
| production | AE Hübsch & Co., Berlin |
| camera | Georg Schubert |
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The Black Hussar is a German silent film war drama from 1915 by Harry Piel .
action
Rittmeister Bodo and Lieutenant Erwin von Eberstein are two brothers. As the First World Warbreaks out, both are convened immediately. Bodo has to promise his mother to bring the younger Erwin back safe and sound, then both go to war with enthusiasm. One day they are assigned to an advanced post and encounter a French patrol who are persecuting them relentlessly. They are lucky in misfortune when they see Countess Alice, who gets lost in her car between the front line, driving past. The noblewoman got lost on her way to a charitable activity, takes the two young men in her vehicle and brings them to safety. Both Ebersteins then find quarters in the abandoned Monjou Castle near a fort. Meanwhile, Bodo and Alice get closer. The following evening, in the presence of the officers, Alice discovers how light signals are secretly being sent from the castle. The German soldiers investigate the source of this alleged betrayal of the enemy and catch the castle servant in the act.
The lackey admits that there is a secret passage between the castle and the nearby fort, the base of the enemy. Bodo and three of his men go into the corridor to scout out. They are discovered and captured by the French. Alice, who followed her Bodo out of concern, also falls into this trap. Then the enemy blows up the secret passage to the castle. Countess Alice knows how to use the weapons of female cunning, beguiles the French and relies on their gallantry. How to get them to be led through the enemy fort. She can also be shown a secret room from which it is impossible to escape. The French enter there and Alice immediately slams the door shut. With that she checkedmate her opponent with one blow. Alice rushes to Bodo. Klein-Erwin, on the other hand, has set out with some of his people to attack the fort, which is being attacked by German artillery fire, and to take it by surprise. As a parliamentarian, he calls on the French to surrender to the German superiority. In fact, the enemy collapses, but two French escape and want to blow up the fort. Erwin notices their intention and cuts the wires that are supposed to make this detonation possible. A shot is fired and Erwin collapses, fatally hit. He dies in the arms of his brother. Erwin is buried in a strange earth, the Iron Cross , which he and Bodo intended for their bravery, is brought to the shaken mother.
Production notes
The black hussar was created at the turn of the year 1914/15 and passed film censorship in February 1915. The four-act act was probably premiered a little later. The film could be seen in Austria-Hungary from January 28, 1916.
For the two actors of the Count Brothers, this film was their first or one of their first appearances in front of the camera. Carl Heinz Wolff switched to film directing shortly afterwards.
criticism
"" The Black Hussar "is a war drama with a poignant plot that shows interesting war episodes as well as good battle and battle images."