The pastor's daughter
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The pastor's daughter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | about 37 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adolf Gärtner |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| camera | Carl Froelich |
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Des Pfarrers Töchterlein is a German silent film melodrama from 1913 with Henny Porten in the title role.
action
There is great harmony between Klara and her father, a pastor, especially since the two have only been alone since their mother's death. Klara grew up in close friendship with Hans, the son of Privy Councilor Langer, who lives right next to the parsonage. The close contact only breaks off when the adolescent Hans went to the military academy. But now he has returned in the uniform of a respectable naval lieutenant. As soon as he said “hello” to his parents, he ran over to the parsonage and called for his “Klärchen” from childhood. But of course she too has long since outgrown her infancy and is now a pretty young woman. For a few seconds the two strangers to each other, seeing each other as adults for the first time. And yet the ice was broken quickly, and the shared memories that awoke again in the small rectory tower welded Klara and Hans together as if they had never parted. In the spinning room, where they particularly liked to be, there is a first, gentle kiss. Hans takes his ring from his finger and hands it to Klara as a kind of pledge of love. After he has put it on her finger, Klara kisses the ring fervently.
The two of them cannot keep their blossoming love a secret from the other for long. Klara's father sees the two kissing and then reproaches his daughter. She shouldn't indulge too much in the false hope of a common future. She was only a pastor's daughter, but he, a young officer, the son of a privy councilor. Hans would never marry her because of the difference in class. With tears in her eyes, Klara acknowledges the well-meaning statements of her father, but she hopes deeply that “her” Hans will be completely different. The privy councilors are anything but enthusiastic about the fresh and newly inflamed love of their offspring. Hans 'mother then writes to her niece and invites her to visit the Langer family for a while, hoping to push the memories of Klara out of Hans' head with this pretty girl, who comes from a “good home”.
Klara had already gone to rest with the thought of Hans when her dream man stood in the parish garden late in the evening and called for her. She asks him to go, but Hans swings himself on her window sill and stands in front of her in the room. It doesn't take long before both of them affirm their love and kiss again. When the invited niece stands at Langers ante portas a few days later, Hans is heavily confiscated because he is asked to look after his pretty and lively cousin. One evening, on behalf of her father, Klara is supposed to hand over an official letter to the privy councilor, when she sees through the window how Hans and his cousin are kissing deeply. Klara faints and becomes ill. It literally escalates into a fever. Only after weeks of intensive care is Klara more or less restored. In the meantime, Hans and his new flame have become engaged to each other, and the privy councilor asks Klara's father to undertake the upcoming wedding.
Although this walk is incredibly difficult for him, since he knows how much this step will hurt his daughter, the pastor does his job. Klara, still weak and ailing, still wants to attend the ceremony. She would like to take a last look at her lover from a safe hiding place and take a look at the woman who has taken Hans from her. She puts on something and goes into the chapel, trembling. She hides right in front of the organ behind the choir and watches the ceremony. When her father performs the wedding, it is too much for her weak body, and Klara collapses screaming. The couple turns and the wedding guests also look up at the choir and organ. Klara's father is barely able to finish the wedding, and Hans looks guilty at the floor. As soon as the ceremony is over, the pastor storms onto the gallery and presses his dying daughter firmly into his arms. "In grim pain and full of despair he sobs, then he says a silent prayer for the poor being who perished from his love."
Production notes
The priest's little daughter was made in the Messter-Film-Atelier in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, passed the censorship on November 1st, 1912 and had its world premiere in the Austrian film exchange in Vienna on March 12th, 1913. The first German public screening took place on March 28th Took place in 1913. The length of the two-acter was 762 meters.
classification
The pastor's daughter has a key role in Henny Porten's career. Not only did the strip mark the breakthrough for Porten as a screen star, it was also one of the first in which she was named. The film was also a great success with the public, producer Oskar Messter was able to sell more than 150 copies of it, an enormous number at the time.
literature
- Martin Loiperdinger: The Pastor's Daughter - a key film for Henny Porten's career; in: KINtop. Yearbook for Research into Early Film 14/15. Frankfurt am Main u. Basel 2006, pp. 206–220
Individual evidence
- ↑ Original quote from a synopsis of the Messter film
- ↑ cf. in addition bibliography
- ↑ cf. Heinrich Fraenkel : Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Munich 1956, p. 387