The Journey into the Blue (1919)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The trip into the blue |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | approx. 70 (1919), 59 (1921) minutes |
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| Director | Rudolf Biebrach |
| script |
Hanns Kraly H. Fredall |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
| camera | Willibald Gaebel |
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Die Fahrt ins Blaue is a German silent film comedy from 1919. Henny Porten plays the leading role under the direction of Rudolf Biebrach . Your partner is Georg Alexander .
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Wanda Lossen works as a simple cashier in a shop. On her birthday, her friends give her a clock with a built-in alarm clock and a lottery ticket. The main prize is a great car and a sum of 20,000 Reichsmarks . Change of location: Dr. Erich Fuldt is a well-known and equally successful as well-to-do writer who celebrates the inauguration of an old castle that he has just bought. Both lives, Wandas and Erichs, are soon to be fatefully interwoven. Wanda wakes up the morning after her birthday and is shocked to find that the alarm clock has stopped overnight and has therefore not woken her. She rushes off because she doesn't want to be late for work. She promptly collides with Fuldt on a street corner. But Wanda has absolutely no time for long explanations, and so she races on straight away, followed at the pace by the perplexed writer, who apparently immediately lost his heart to the stormy young lady in the collision.
Arriving at the store, Wanda's boss calls the late-arriving woman to him, whereupon Wanda promptly bursts into tears. The old man then looks at his subordinate for the first time and seems to be ecstatic about her. He brazenly ensnares her and flirts with Wanda, makes her advances and shows her what a great life in luxury she could lead by his side. Wanda replies with some arrogance, and rubs her lot under her boss's nose. After all, she could soon afford all of this herself. The following weekend, Wanda goes on an excursion with her friends, the eponymous trip into the blue, to Rauenstein Castle. On the way there they come across Erich Fuldt, whose car seems to have broken down on the side of the road. After some back and forth, the girls and the author get together and drive to the castle together.
While visiting the castle, Erich leads the women into a room, removes a plate in the floor and asks Wanda and her friends to look down. He says that so far no woman has dared to descend into the dark hole. That of course immediately brings Wanda on the scene, who wants to prove her recklessness and courage in front of everyone. Erich accompanies them and, once at the bottom, wants to joke Wanda directly on an instrument of torture. Now she gets scared and offers him her lottery ticket for her release. Fuldt refrains from doing so and only demands a kiss from Wanda, which he picks up without permission. Then he releases the frightened girl, who immediately gives him a slapstick.
Days later: Wanda is informed by a representative from the lottery company that she is the main winner and has won both the sum of money and the fancy Mercedes-Benz that is right in front of her house. However, there is one condition: Wanda also has to accept the vehicle's chauffeur for at least three months. When Wanda walks in front of the door, she recognizes Erich Fuldt in the chauffeur, whom she hadn't seen since the slap. She has no way of knowing that she did not win at all and that Erich only faked Wanda's main prize with his own money and his own vehicle. Wanda invites her friends to celebrate in the restaurant “Die Grüne Diele” for the coming evening. On the way home, “Chauffeur” Erich fakes a breakdown and runs away to get help. In the meantime, Wanda is "attacked" by three masked men. It is, however, about Fuldt's servants. Now Erich returns to the car and drives to his castle. Wanda flees because she has not yet understood the fun behind it, pursued by Erich. Then he catches her, puts her in the car, and there is a happy ending.
Production notes
The journey into the blue was created in 1919 in the UFA-Messter-Atelier in Berlin-Tempelhof . During the censorship-free period, the film premiered on November 21, 1919 in Berlin's Mozart Hall. At that time it was 1470 meters long, or 1424 meters after a few cuts, divided into four acts. When the new film censorship was resurrected on February 8, 1921, The Journey into the Blue had to be shortened to 1,347 meters. A youth ban was issued.
Kurt Richter designed the film structures.