The woman without nerves

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Movie
Original title The woman without nerves
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1930
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Willi Wolff
script Willi Wolff
W. Solski
production Ellen Richter & Willi Wolff
camera Willy Hameister
Erich Nitzschmann
occupation

and Leopold von Ledebur , Robert Garrison , Wolfgang von Schwind , Arthur Duarte , Toni Tetzlaff , Max Paetz

The Woman without Nerves is an adventure and crime film with Ellen Richter from 1929. This late silent film was directed by Richter's husband Willi Wolff .

action

Ellen Seefeldt works as a reporter for a sensational newspaper called “Großstadtabend” and is eagerly waiting for the big story with which she can write big headlines. One day she thinks she has pulled a scoop ashore when she comes across a brazen picture theft. In the pursuit of thieves across Europe - escape stations for the perpetrators include Paris, Antwerp and London - Ellen proves to be a die-hard adventurer in the tradition of Harry Piel and does not shy away from any crazy challenge, for example when she faces one Bridge jumps into the coal wagon of a locomotive that is in full swing. Other daring physical exertions and skilful disguises follow, until the crooks can be arrested and arrested in a train compartment.

Production notes

The woman without nerves was made in the summer months of June to August 1929 at several locations in Europe (external shoots in Berlin, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, St. Quentin) as well as in the Staaken film studio. The film passed the censorship on December 6, 1929 and was 2,427 meters long, divided into seven acts. The premiere took place on January 17, 1930 in Berlin's marble house .

Director Wolff also took over the production management. Walter Reimann designed the film structures.

Reviews

The ratings for Ellen Richter's last silent film were rather poor. Here are three examples:

In the BZ at noon it was read that Ellen Richter had obviously missed the connection with the modern cinema: “She used to make the nice, exciting adventure and travel films in large numbers, and it is her or her author-director-husband Willi Wolff's mistake to think that exactly the same genre is just as nice and exciting today. (...) Not only the Americans, we have long been approaching such subjects in a completely different way. The execution has speed and wit, but Wolff has already worked with more verve and minus directional carver, Ellen Richter without such excited exaggeration, the person responsible for the photo with greater accuracy. "

Hans Sahl found in the Berlin Börsen-Courier that the plot reveals an “unlikely mess” that not only needs a woman without nerves, but also a cinema audience. Conclusion: “Ellen Richter as Harry Piel. Willi Wolff's direction is within the conventional framework of common entertainment. "

The Rote Fahne railed: “What German film production has been doing lately is under all criticism. In a decade, such a work as this Ellen Richter film will be shown as a cultural-historical document to show how wonderfully far bourgeois film art has come in Germany. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BZ am Mittag, issue No. 17 of January 18, 1930
  2. ↑ Berliner Börsen-Courier, issue No. 31 from January 19, 1930
  3. ↑ Die Rote Fahne, issue No. 21 from January 25, 1930

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