The canned bride

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Movie
Original title The canned bride
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1915
length 58 minutes
Rod
Director Robert Wiene
script Walter Turszinsky
production Oskar Messter
occupation

The canned bride is a German silent film fun play from 1915 by Robert Wiene .

action

In the center of the action is a highly attractive canning man who is admired by the women he employs. While the ladies kept poking at him, the general manager, a staunch bachelor, has all the work on his mind in the company. Since only he has the big picture, one day he has to state that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Then he had a brilliant idea: the authorized signatory advertised in a newspaper and announced that the remaining stock of 300,000 tins was for sale and that three of these tins contained a slip of paper that guaranteed the lucky winner's marriage to the beautiful factory owner. Since the latter cannot of course marry all three, only the one who appears first with the note in the office wins .

The idea doesn't fail to have an effect, and many cans have been sold in a very short time. The cans are also in great demand among the female workforce; every single woman absolutely wants to become the canned bride. The first person who finds the paper is a rather plump, elderly, widowed innkeeper, the second a very pretty young actress. The elderly innkeeper rushes to the factory in the early hours of the morning and is the first to arrive. Since the object of desire, the factory manager, is not yet there, she has to wait in the anteroom. She takes a seat ... and falls asleep. In the meantime, however, the attractive artist has arrived, who is immediately declared his fiancée by the factory boss who rolls in. Shortly afterwards the widow wakes up - too late! - back on. But she doesn't just want to be disembarked and insists on the rights of those who arrive first. She really wants this man!

A dispute breaks out between the two women over the canning company, and in the end both women leave the office in a rage, not without first uttering wild curses and oaths of revenge and threatening legal consequences. The man so much in demand now sends his best man, the general manager, to shake hands with the widow, who was actually the first to come. Another man, known as the Traveler, has to go to the actress to placate her with warm words of consolation. The manager's eyes light up when he is with the widow, because he reads the proud sum of 165,000 marks in her savings account. He thinks that the company would be restructured. Suddenly this woman becomes extremely interesting. The head of color has meanwhile given a speech in front of his employees and announced a small gift to each of the employees on the occasion of the upcoming engagement. Practically and economically, as the general manager is prompted, he suggests giving each of the employees a tin can. The traveler, in turn, fell in love with the actress during his consolation mission, and she reciprocated his feelings. He doesn't have to appease this lady any further and can keep her from taking legal action against his boss.

Since the landlady and the authorized signatory suddenly seem to be a couple, he is now there for his boss without a bride ... if it weren't for the remaining tins distributed to the employees as an engagement gift, one of which would have to contain the third small, white piece of paper. Most women are deeply saddened that their beloved boss is about to get under the hood, and especially one who is always sobbing is heartbroken. When one of the employees hands her her gift box, she thunders it on the floor, furious. The tin can open and the last piece of paper falls out. With that, the coveted company boss is finally away from the marriage market.

Production notes

The canned bride was made in the Messter film studio in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, passed censorship in April 1915 and probably had its world premiere a little later. The film opened in Denmark on June 21, 1915 and in Austria-Hungary on September 17 of the same year. The length of the three-acter was 1063 meters.

criticism

“Once again a comedy where you can't stop laughing. No distorted grotesque figures, but people as life shows a thousand times over, are the primeval heroes of a story that is cheerful enough to have a simple narrative on our laughing nerves. "

- Cinematographic review of July 11, 1915. p. 46

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