German heroes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | German heroes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Hofer |
| script | Franz Hofer |
| production | Max Maschke for Luna-Film, Berlin |
| camera | Gotthardt Wolf |
| occupation | |
Deutsche Helden is a propagandistic, German war silent film from 1914 by Franz Hofer .
action
The year is 1898: an engineer at a munitions factory catches his wife red-handed with a lover, of all people, a colleague of his. While the engineer assumes that the man ended up in his house with adulterous intent, the truth lies elsewhere: the colleague was out to steal the engineering plans for a special gun, an important invention of the engineer. The engineer then knocks down the rival and chases his wife out of the house.
Sixteen years have passed since then, and despite this terrible incident, the engineer has never forgotten his wife. But now the war has broken out and the engineer is drafted. He quickly became involved in franc-shooter battles in Belgium . After many years, while taking a house, he meets again his chased wife and her son, who have lived there since the separation. The alleged disloyal wanted to go home to Germany, but when hostilities broke out in August 1914, she could not cross the border. But now the son joins the German army and uses it to cement the bond between the two spouses, which was once severed by a misunderstanding.
Production notes
German heroes , also known under the second title, Out of the luck of life betrayed , is a typical example of a cinematic snap shot as a direct reaction to the outbreak of the First World War . The three-act act, shot in the Luna Film Atelier in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse 224, was censored in November 1914 and premiered on December 4, 1914 at the Kammerlichtspiele on Potsdamer Platz .
The film structures come from Fritz Kraencke .
Contemporary history
In 1935, from a National Socialist point of view, Oskar Kalbus tried to classify this film genre under the chapter heading “Feldgrauer Filmkitsch”, which experienced a real boom in the German Reich in 1914 and 1915 in particular. He writes:
“A certain trunk of experienced film manufacturers could not be frightened, however. First of all, they let their manifold relationships play out in order to be exempted from military service, because they felt called to offer the German people sensational hits "panem et circensis" in their quieter homeland, bearing in mind an ancient Roman experience : Relaxation and distraction, encouragement and encouragement. The cinema should now offer all of this. It was hoped that the general joy in the victories of our army would give rise to the desire for communication, for distracting experiences and, above all, for people to be gathered together in the “little man's theater”. In addition to the current film recordings from the theaters of war, the field-gray film kitsch - or the so-called "patriotic" film of 1914/15. "
criticism
“You can now rightly look forward to every Luna film with interest, because this German factory has understood how to give its events a certain stability in relation to quality. It has managed not only to capture all the phenomena of the foreign market in terms of design and technical direction, but to exceed them. In the new drama “German Heroes”, for example, you can see interior shots of a kind that we have rarely seen in this manner and in such abundance. The factory is also supported by a dramaturge and director, Franz Hofer, who not only invents tasteful subjects, but also knows how to put them into life with skill. (...) The picture is skillfully enhanced and has a gripping effect. "
Web links
- German hero in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- German Heroes at The German Early Cinema Database
- German heroes at filmportal.de