The vilder foter
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The vilder foter |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Yiddish |
| Publishing year | 1911 |
| length | 4 acts, 1250 meters, at 16 fps 68 minutes, in the USA shortened to 800 meters, 44 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Marek |
| script | Zalmen Libin and Andrzej Marek |
| production | Siła cinema Warsaw |
| camera | Stanislaw Sebel |
| occupation | |
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The vilder foter is the title of a Yiddish silent film from Tsarist Poland from 1911. Andrzej Marek realized it for the Warsaw film producer Mordka Towbin based on a play by Zalmen Libin and a script he had worked out with him . The main roles were played by Herman Sieracki and Zina Goldsztejn.
action
Father kills daughter's illegitimate child.
The farmer Zachar lives with his family in a Jewish shtetl . He has promised his beautiful daughter Rachel against her will to his rich but no longer young neighbor for marriage. Rachel, however, loves someone else. When she has a child, the father, mad with disappointment, throws it into the pond. Rachel passes in despair, and the cruel father, mindful of his crime, falls from a rock into the abyss.
background
The film that Stanisław Sebel shot was a production by the company Kantor Zjednoczonych Kinematografów Sila ( German strength). It had an original length of 1200 meters on 4 files; the copy on loan in the USA was only 800 meters long. In Poland, where the premiere took place on November 12, 1911, the film was shown under the title Okrutny ojciec , in the USA as The Harsh Father .
literature
- Charles Ford, Robert Hammond: Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History. McFarland Verlag, 2005, ISBN 0-7864-4677-3 .
- Natan Gross: Film żydowski w Polsce . Rabid Publishing House, Kraków 2002, ISBN 83-88668-23-4 , pp. 21, 145.
- Marek Haltof: Polish National Cinema . Berghahn Books, 2002, ISBN 1-57181-276-8 , p. 294.
- J. Hoberman, Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY): Bridge of light: Yiddish film between two worlds. Museum of Modern Art, 1991, ISBN 0-8052-4107-8 .
- Sorrel Kerbel (Ed.): The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Routledge Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-135-45606-2 .
- Chantal Catherine Michel: The Yiddish Cinema: Staging of Ascension Between Shtetl and American Dream. Metropol-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-081-3 .
- Sheila Skaff: The law of the looking glass: cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 . Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 2008, ISBN 978-0-8214-1784-3 , pp. 6, 9-10, 19, 28, 31, 45, 49, 92 and others. 122
Web links
- The Vilder Főtér in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wiłder fater at filmweb.pl
- Okrutny ojciec / Der wiłder fater at filmpolski.pl images
- Photo by Zina Goldsztejn (* 1894)
- Photo by Esther Rachel Kamińska (1875–1925), Atelier J. Ejgel, Baranowitz
- Photo of the actor Adolf Berman (* 1872)
Individual evidence
- ↑ actually Marek Arnsztejn, writer and theater man, b. January 2, 1880 in Warsaw, died in 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto, cf. pl.wiki
- ↑ cf. Hoberman p. 16: “A film version of the Kaminski staging of New York writer Zalmen Libin's naturalistic melodrama Der Vilder Foter (The savage father)”
- ↑ Ford-Hammond state on the other hand (p. 257): “Scenario based on a play by Jakub Gordin” - also Denman in Kerbel 2004 and filmpolski.pl
- ↑ to filmpolski.pl: “W pewnej wsi mieszka żydowska rodzina rolnika Zachara. Swoją piękną córkę Rachelę, mimo jej sprzeciwu, Zachar przyrzekł dać za żonę bogatemu, ale niemłodemu już sąsiadowi. Rachela jednak kochała innego i kiedy urodziła dziecko, zawiedziony ojciec w napadzie szału wrzucił je do stawu. Rachela topi się z rozpaczy, a okrutny ojciec, myśląc ciągle o swej zbrodni, rzuca się ze skały w przepaść. "
- ↑ IMDb technicalspecs
- ↑ cf. IMDb release info