The hunt for the hundred pound note or the journey around the world
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| Original title | The hunt for the hundred pound note or the journey around the world |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
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| Director | Willy Zeyn senior |
| script | Rudolf del Zopp |
| production | Karl Werner |
| camera | Georg Paezel |
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The Hunt for the Hundred Pound Note or The Journey Around the World is a German silent film from 1913 by Willy Zeyn senior with Fred Goebel and Senta Eichstaedt in the leading roles. Although filmed only based on Jules Verne's motifs , it is considered the first film adaptation of the classic adventure novel Journey around the Earth in 80 Days .
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Phileas Fogg is the prime example of a British gentleman. One day in his London club he pays a bill with a brand new one hundred pound note. Then he bets that in just three months he will be holding exactly that banknote in his hands again. The serial number is noted down by his club friends, and the banknote, also marked, goes on the road.
At almost the same time, the English police discovered a hiding place with a large number of flowers. Several hundred pound notes with the same serial number also fall into the hands of the state. The shrewd detective Miss Nobody steps in. It is supposed to track down the counterfeit money manufacturers and arrest them. Their hunt for the crooks takes them around the globe, in a casino, a Chinese opium den and in the New York docks. On a farm, she gets dangerously close to the crooks and is in great danger.
Production notes
The film, which parodistically approached the Verne model, was made in spring / early summer 1913, had six acts and was censored on August 1, 1913. The world premiere probably took place in August or September 1913; The strip was discussed in the Hamburg Foreign Gazette of September 14, 1913.
Kurt Dürnhöfer created the extensive film structures with which he tried to recreate “exotic” scenes from Bombay, Nagasaki, San Francisco and Cairo. With his set designs, he created the first open-air buildings in the film city of Berlin. Ernst Körner, who usually works as a production manager, assisted director Zeyn on this film and also took on a small role.
criticism
“The exciting plot of this cinema play is made up of numerous varied phases that take place in rapid succession in England, Egypt, India, Japan, China, North America and France and end at the starting point, so that the audience is on a journey in a flash Go around the world, take a look at the folk life of the oriental, Indian and Malay ethnic races, feel the piquant charm of scenes from harem life and the horrors of the opium dens, briefly absorb the impressions of a trip around the world. Of course, this also includes beautiful landscape images, which to an attentive observer sometimes seem at home. "
Web links
- The hunt for the hundred pound note or the trip around the world at filmportal.de
- The Hunt for the hundred pound note or the trip around the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Hunt for the Hundred Pound Note or The Journey Around the World at The German Early Cinema Database