The Cricket (1917)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A Cricket |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 51 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers |
| production | Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers |
| camera | Albert Schattmann |
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Die Grille is a German silent film melodrama from 1917 by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers .
action
The story set in the mountains contains the classic plot of two “royal children” who cannot come together. A young girl, elf-like in her nature and of lovely innocence, is suspected of being a witch by the suspicious and simple-minded villagers. She is only looking for a little happiness and love. One day she meets a young man to whom she quickly gives her heart and who takes care of her completely.
The happiness in life seems perfect - but oh shock: the youth turns out to be her half-brother! The fair maiden is not allowed to meet him, and yet she cannot part with him either. And so the unfortunate decides to end her life at a weir with a jump into the cold, tearing water of an open sluice, so as not to fall into the mortal sin of brotherly love.
Production notes
The cricket , announced as a peasant drama, was made in the BB-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Steglitz , Berlinickestr. 11. The three-act play with a length of 1052 meters passed the film censorship in October 1917 and was premiered in the same month in the Kammerlichtspiele on Potsdamer Platz.
criticism
“One of the most beautiful Olga Desmond films. A tragic, deeply moving story takes place in the framework of a chain of elaborate living paintings. Individual scenes, especially those in which Olga Desmond 'at night time', when the crickets chirp and the nightingales are beating, dances in the quiet pond with her reflection, are downright compelling beauty. The folk scenes and the mountain images, especially those in the gorge and at the waterfall, are just beautiful. (...) The brilliant direction and especially the photographic effects stamp this film into a first-rate mood picture. "