Claudi from the Geiserhof
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| Original title | Claudi from the Geiserhof |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | 76 minutes |
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| Director | Rudolf Biebrach |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| camera | Karl friend |
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The Claudi vom Geiserhof is a German silent film mountain drama from 1917 with Henny Porten in the lead role.
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Claudi vom Geiserhof, a simple but good girl, suffers a lot from her bossy father, who often appears to her as a sullen, grim and withdrawn fellow. He's still struggling with the fact that he didn't become the father of a son to whom he could one day have handed over the farm. To make matters worse, the daughter got involved with a boy, the son of the Spießenhof farmer Hieronymus, who first made her pregnant and then left her with the child. So now there is also the shame, the social disgrace! The old man is relentless, he throws his own flesh and blood together with the illegitimate worm from the yard, and Claudi has to see where she and her little child are. The old servant Jörgl follows her with the father of the dishonorable seducer to hold her back from an act of desperation. And indeed, the two can prevent Claudi from throwing their newborn into the abyss.
Years have passed and Claudi and her son have found refuge with the child's father. The boy has meanwhile grown into a stately man, while Claudi is gradually falling into a mental derangement. The child's father Hieronymus has long since moved away because he did not want to bow to his father's wish to marry Claudi, who was pregnant by him. The old Geiserhof farmer has meanwhile become a misanthropic eccentric and hater of people and has cut himself off from everyone. When an avalanche presumably buried the old man, life returned to Claudi, and the old Spiessenhof farmer proposed to her to finally turn the outcast Claudi into an “honorable” woman. Claudi's son, however, can reconcile his mother with her father, who was not in his hut when the avalanche went down. Characterless Hieronymus stands at the point where Claudi once wanted to throw their son into the depths, spreads his arms and jumps.
Production notes
Claudi vom Geiserhof was made in the Messter film studio in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, passed film censorship in August 1917 and was premiered on September 28, 1917 in Berlin's Mozart Hall. The four-act film, which was soon shown in Austria-Hungary under the slightly different title Claudi Geiser , was 1572 and 1387 meters long, depending on the censorship version.
Ludwig Kainer created the buildings .
Reviews
“A piece of Anzengruber's soul, but only a piece of it that has too many places, which stand at the dangerous limit, where the intended dramatic effect can turn into the opposite. (...) The present film has such a strong human background that it is really not easy to banish it. (...) It is people who we meet here and that is why we understand when the old's rigid concept of honor does not appear immediately understandable to us. (...) In addition to the advantages of the plot, there are the purely technical advantages. First of all, there is the photograph that the surgeon Freund has obtained, and for which there can only be a single word of admiration. All of this has come close to plastic. (...) The staging is by Rudolf Biebrach, it radiates all the warmth of an artist's nature who feels comfortable in the wonderful nature. (...) Henny Porten has many exceptionally fine moments, such as when she first realizes what she's done, when her father comes into the room and she puts the deranged clothes in order and finally also as absent-minded. Henny Porten has added a new one to her many studies. Your teammates are famous actors, each of them gave a masterpiece. "
“This film, with its incomparably beautiful scenic images and the touching action that brings us into the middle of the high mountains on a farm, offered Henny Porten another opportunity to show her grandiose art. This popular actress, rightly so popular, solved her task with perfect mastery. She put so much intimacy in all of her gestures and was so compelling in the role of a mentally deranged person that one had to admire her excellent performance again and again. "