The escape and pursuit of the robbery murderer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin
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| Original title | The escape and pursuit of the robbery murderer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1905 |
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| Director | Gustav Schönwald |
| production | International Cinematograph and Photography Society |
| camera | Karl Jansch |
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Unknown actor: Rudolf Hennig | |
The escape and pursuit of the robbery killer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin is a German topical film from 1905 with a total length of about 120 meters. It is of particular importance in terms of film history because it led to the introduction of pre-censorship for film in Germany in May 1906 .
action
The plot of the film is based on the true story of the robbery killer Karl Rudolf Hennig (1874–1906), who made headlines in 1905 with his spectacular escape from the Berlin police.
background
The film was one of several productions that made fun of the failure of the Berlin police in pursuing Rudolf Hennig, who was wanted for robbery and murder. The flight and persecution of the robbery murderer Rudolf Hennig over the rooftops of Berlin is still the best-known of these films and is considered the “first scandalous film in German film history” because of the indignant reactions it provoked . He was trained by the Internationale Kinematograph- u. Lichtbild-Ges. Berlin produces.
After Hennig's arrest, on April 13, 1906, the Berlin police headquarters issued a ban on showing all "artificially produced depictions of Hennig's murder and his escape". The reason for the ban was that these representations vilified the police and intervened in a pending case. The ban was lifted on April 18; However, four days after Hennig was sentenced to death, on May 5, 1906, the Berlin police chief introduced precensorship in response to the Hennig films. This stipulated that cinema owners had to submit their program in advance to the Berlin police headquarters, which would then decide whether the films were to be approved or banned. The films could only be released for adults. Editing conditions as a prerequisite for approval were also possible. The decree of the Berlin police president found many imitators throughout Germany and in the following years led to film censorship in Germany being increasingly standardized and systematized.
Web links
- The flight and pursuit of the robbery murderer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The escape and pursuit of the robbery killer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin at The German Early Cinema Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut H. Diederichs: The Beginnings of German Film Journalism 1895 to 1909 ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.soziales.fh-dortmund.de
- ↑ a b Herbert Birett : When should film censorship take place? ( Memento from August 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , from May 12, 2006.
- ↑ a b Stefan Volk: Scandal Films. Cinematic excitement yesterday and today. Schüren, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89472-562-4 , p. 14.
