Ole Brandis's eyes
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| Original title | Ole Brandis's eyes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | 52 minutes |
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| Director | Stellan Rye |
| script | Hanns Heinz Ewers |
| production | Deutsche Bioscop GmbH, Berlin |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
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The eyes of the Ole Brandis is a German feature film from 1913. Directed by Stellan Rye played Alexander Moissi the title role. The script was written by Hans Heinz Ewers ( The Student from Prague ).
action
Ole Brandis is a young painter: rich and famous, coveted by women and kissed by the muse. One day he expresses the wish to be able to see people for who they really are. Then Ole meets the disfigured antique dealer Coppilander, who seems to be able to grant him exactly this wish. All he has to do is stroke his eyes with the letter, which bears the handwriting of the mysterious hunchback, and he can immediately recognize the unvarnished truth, far from all deceit and self-deception, in his counterpart. But the hope of gaining unmistakable knowledge in this way is only fulfilled in its ugliest form: Ole has to recognize what his bride really thinks of him and what the true character of his best friend looks like. The facades are crumbling, behind the alleged affection for him, Brandis now only sees the ugly grimace of calculation and greed, falsehood and unkindness.
Soon all illusion is gone, the painter, once the darling of the gods, only recognizes his own self in terrible pictures: a tired, exasperated man, marked by a desolate lifestyle, who has been doing too well for too long. The look into the depths of his soul and the badness of his surroundings has the diametrically opposite effect that Ole Brandis hoped for with his ardent wish: He begins to doubt the good in the world itself. And what is even worse: he now also doubts himself. But Ulla, a simple girl from the people who is his model, can protect Ole from an act of desperation, an attempted suicide. And so Ole Brandis dares one last attempt: Again he strokes the letter over his eyes, but this time he realizes that she actually has the human purity that she exudes on the outside. At this moment, Ole takes the girl and for the first time has the feeling of receiving deeply felt love. His life finally has a perspective again.
Production notes
Ole Brandis's eyes were shot in the Neubabelsberg Bioscop studio and had a length of 1,412 meters on four files. The external shoots took place in a picturesque landscape in northern Italy. The film passed the censorship on November 6, 1913 and ran on January 9, 1914 for the reopening of the rebuilt Berlin UT Alexanderplatz. In Austria-Hungary, The Eyes of Ole Brandis could already be seen under the slightly different title Ole Brandis Augen in December 1913 in the Vienna Burgkino.
reception
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse reported in its December 14, 1913 edition: "Alexander Moissi, who plays the young painter, exudes the charm that made him a favorite on the stage, even in living pictures, and exercises in the highly dramatic scenes for whom the film is rich, gripping effect. " In the edition of January 18, 1914 it says: "Alexander Moissi plays (...) probably one of the most difficult roles that a cinema play has ever given an artist. Moissi does his job masterfully, he makes the fantastic believable, he knows how to grasp and to amuse, and is of a heart-winning, charming naturalness. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Ole Brandi's Eyes". In: Neue Freie Presse , December 14, 1913, p. 26 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ "Ole Brandi's Eyes". In: Neue Freie Presse , January 18, 1914, p. 26 (online at ANNO ).