The princess of Travankore
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| Original title | The princess of Travankore |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 78 minutes |
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| Director | Otto Rippert |
| script | Martin Berger |
| production | Erich Pommer |
| camera | Carl Hoffmann |
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The King's Daughter of Travankore is a German monumental and equipment silent film drama from 1917 by Otto Rippert .
action
Somewhere in an Indian fantasy world of bygone times. Agra, the beautiful daughter of the King of Travankore , loves the young Baron Karwe (other sources call him Käwe), but at the behest of her father, in order to unite two dynasties, she is supposed to marry the Prince of Ighawar, to whom she was forced to be betrothed as a child . Now the day of the marriage has come: A festival of colossal effort with tremendous pomp has been put on, elephants and camels have been called in as extras for the street elevators. Magnificent feasts are given, it is fit in every sense. Agra seems to submit to the organizers' wedding wishes, but in truth her heart still belongs to Baron Karwe, who also does not want to give up the young woman.
After the feast, the prince goes to a farewell party in the Bajaderen temple of love . The baron also went there with “his” Agra to make the last attempt to make it clear to his great love that she chained her life to the wrong person. However, a sinister named Malati, who is the king's minister, has hired his own plans and for this reason evil characters to murder the princely rival Karwe. But the outrage hits the wrong person, and the prince falls victim to the bloody act. Karwe and Agra are quickly accused of masterminding the plot and imprisoned as such. According to the widow's verdict, Agra is to be surrendered to death in flames, and a pyre is quickly set up. At the last moment, the real culprit can be convicted, and the two lovers finally sink into each other's arms.
Production notes
After director Rippert had set up the major project Homunculus with great success in the previous year , in 1917 he was given the direction of the magnificent Indian and love drama The King's Daughter of Travankore . The production in the Eiko-Film studios in Berlin-Marienfelde was submitted to the censors in October 1917 and shown for the first time in the same month as part of a press screening. From November 1917 the King's Daughter of Travankore could also be seen in the Berlin Marble House . The length of the five-act was originally 1619 meters, but there was also a shorter version of 1256 meters.
criticism
“A film that actually far surpassed everything that has been seen so far. (...) Because only the boldest imagination can create pictures of such fairy-tale splendor and beauty, times ... of medieval splendor stand before us. Only Reinhardt , the ingenious master of modern stage technology, has so far managed to put something similar on display. The grandiose scenes of the wedding celebration and then the street parades on camels and elephants were a real feast for the eyes. The dances and rounds of the Bajaderen, the prince's visit to the temple of love, the stake on which Agra is to be burned and many others. This was the setting in which the poetic, touching love tragedy of the princess of Travankore took place. Photography can probably be rated as the best that modern technology can create. "