The stock exchange queen
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The stock exchange queen |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | 63 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edmund Edel |
| script | Edmund Edel |
| production | Neutral film |
| music | Maud Nelissen (2012) |
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Die Börsenkönigin , subtitled the novel of a mine owner , is a German silent film in four acts by Edmund Edel , which was shot in 1916, but did not see its film premiere until 1918.
action
1st act
The stock exchange agent Goldstein recommends the sale of shares in the Glückauf copper mine . The price for the share then falls by 6 percent overnight. The owner of the mine, Helene Netzler, who holds the majority of the shares, learns of the price decline from the newspaper. Immediately she lets the mine director Bruno Lindholm come to. Lindholm explains to her that the mine’s copper yield has decreased. Helene is desperate, because she owes her wealth only to the copper mine. She begs Lindholm for help, and Lindholm suggests that he has discovered a new copper vein that could potentially yield high yields. Both go to the copper mine and drive into the shaft to inspect the mine and the new vein.
2nd act
After the tour, Helene and Lindholm talk to each other. She promises to make him co-owner of the mine if successful. Both feel drawn to each other and they kiss, but Helene breaks free and drives off in a hurry. Helene instructs Goldstein to artificially lower the price of the share and then buy up as many shares in the mine as possible. In the end, Goldstein acquired almost all of the shares in the Glückauf copper mine for Helene . By telegram she learns that the new line is very productive. Helene was able to increase her wealth even more. She hires her poor cousin Lina as a companion. Lina also prepares the big dinner for the copper mine experts, to which Lindholm also appears. He flirts with Lina unnoticed by Helene. Helene, in turn, officially makes Lindholm the co-owner of the pit at dinner. He signs the agreement that will guarantee him half of the mine’s earnings in the future.
3rd act
Helene inspects the pit and monitors the copper production. When it almost falls into the pit, it is held by mine inspector Karl Müller. Müller takes advantage of her subsequent weakness and kisses her. Helene is outraged and hurries back home. Here Lindholm is playing croquet with Lina . The game is interrupted by Helene and Lindholm immediately turns to his lover. Lina is disappointed and decides to quit her job. Helene, who has since become the most influential person on the copper market, lets her go. When they say goodbye, she sees Lindholm kissing Lina. She is stunned. While Lindholm decides to visit the new tunnel himself to accelerate work, Helene has it sent to Müller.
4th act
The jealous Helene hands over the management of the mines to Müller. Müller orders that no work should be carried out that day. Lindholm knows nothing about this and drives into the pit as planned. Firedamp leads to a mine disaster. Helene learns that the workers weren't in the pits and is relieved after the initial shock. But nobody can tell her where Lindholm is. She looks for him in vain and finally finds out at the pit that he is down. She collapses and is desperate, now realizing that her wealth is worthless. The experts appear and Helene decides to be strong in an accident. She now wants to do everything in her power and get to work so that the miners do not have to suffer from the misfortune.
production
The stock exchange queen was next to Im Lebenswirbel , Dora Brandes , The Rose of the Wilderness , The Eskimobaby , The First Patient , The Orphanage Child and The ABC of Love, one of eight films that Asta Nielsen shot in the summer of 1916 for Neutral-Film under the simplest conditions . Nielsen financed Die Börsenkönigin and the other films himself; The shooting took place in the Union studio she rented in Tempelhof. After the completion of Dora Brandes and Das Liebes-ABC , there were payment differences, so that Nielsen, according to his own statement, dissolved the cooperation with the film company in court and sold the negatives that had been shot but not yet completed to another film company. According to the contract, she was obliged to insure the negatives, whereby the insurance costs should be paid to Nielsen in the event of any damage. In fact, the original negatives of the films were destroyed in a fire at a photocopier a few months after the shooting ended. However, the rental company claimed the insurance money for itself. The ensuing legal process between the company and Asta Nielsen was not decided in Nielsen's favor until 1922, when the sum insured had already become worthless due to inflation .
Nielsen wrote in 1928 that she “was no longer able to finish the six films [including Die Börsenkönigin ]” because her daughter Jesta was ill and she therefore had to travel from Berlin to Copenhagen in 1916 . The film was submitted to censorship in January 1918 and was banned from youth. It was shown for the first time in a Berlin cinema on May 23, 1918.
The stock exchange queen has been preserved in various copies. On the basis of a viraged nitro copy in the Nederlands Filmmuseum , a copy with German subtitles was made until 1994, which was back-translated from Dutch. The film was colored using the Desmet method. The German version obtained in this way was released on DVD in 2012 with three other Asta Nielsen films as part of the Edition Filmmuseum series of the Filmmuseum Munich . The new film music comes from Maud Nelissen .
criticism
The Lichtbild-Bühne criticized that the conflict in the film was marginal, “the knot is just as easily untied as it is tied. The director accidentally dies in the pit. ”At the same time, it was asked,“ How did this woman [Asta Nielsen] ever need to leave the pedestal on which she deservedly enthroned and cede her place to women who certainly have many advantages but none of them has the talent of Asta Nielsen. "
literature
- The stock exchange queen. In: Karola Gramann , Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films (= Asta Nielsen. Vol. 2). 2nd Edition. Filmarchiv Austria Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , pp. 239–245.
Web links
- The Börsenkönigin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The stock exchange queen at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Asta Nielsen: The silent muse. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1977, p. 204.
- ↑ The ABC of Love. In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films (= Asta Nielsen. Vol. 2). 2nd Edition. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , pp. 211-214, here p. 213.
- ↑ Asta Nielsen: My way in the film. Part 7: The sad story of my war films. In: BZ am Mittag , October 6, 1928, ZDB -ID 749106-2 .
- ↑ Frank Brenner, Annette Groschke: Between Backfisch and Börsenkönigin - Asta Nielsen in 4 films. Booklet for the DVD Four Films with Asta Nielsen , Edition Filmmuseum, No. 67, 2012.
- ↑ DM: The Queen of the Stock Exchange. In: Lichtbild-Bühne. Vol. 11, No. 21, May 25, 1918, ZDB -ID 536617-3 , p. 82.