The country road
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| Original title | The country road |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | 57 minutes |
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| Director | Paul von Woringen |
| script | Paul Lindau based on a template (story) by Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| production | Deutsche Mutoskop and Biograph GmbH, Berlin |
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Die Landstraße is a German feature film from 1913 about a tragic miscarriage of justice, based on a script by Paul Lindau .
action
The story takes place in the middle of the 19th century, somewhere in the country.
A crippled vagabond - a kind-hearted person who has not been guilty of anything so far - is so hungry that he lets himself be carried away into stealing a ham from the owner in a remote farm. This tramp Lutz has no idea that there was a dark existence there almost simultaneously, the escaped convict Helfing. When the latter breaks into the farm and is caught by the farmer looking for a hiding place in the barn, Helfing murders the farm owner.
Wrong assumptions, conclusions and prejudices lead to the automatic assumption that only the vagabond could have killed the farmer. Lutz, who is currently eating the stolen ham, is suspected of murder and arrested.
In the ensuing jury trial, Lutz does not succeed in proving his innocence - the evidence against him is too heavy. Finally he is convicted, the sentence is life imprisonment. During his detention, Lutz fell seriously ill and was transferred to a hospital, where he was allowed to make himself useful after his recovery. It was not until many years later that the verdict turned out to be a miscarriage of justice, when the real murderer wanted to ease his conscience shortly before his own death and confessed his bloody act. The vagabond is allowed to leave the detention center and returns to the road.
Production notes
The Landstrasse was filmed in the Mutoskop studio in Berlin-Lankwitz and had a length of 1561 meters in four files. The five-act film passed the censorship on August 25, 1913, was banned from young people and was shown on September 17, 1913 in the Berlin UT Friedrichstrasse.
The Landstrasse is the first film by the Austrian theater actor Carl Goetz known by name and the first film director by Paul von Woringen known by name . The story is thematically based on the once highly regarded Rannersdorf murder trial. Paul Lindau used a story by Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as a template.
This silent film got by with only seven subtitles. The original music played was conducted by Max Jacobs.
criticism
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse reported in its issue of December 28, 1913: "This sensational drama is still supported by a moving portrayal that embodies Karl Götz, a member of the Vienna Volksbühne in the form of the vagabond Lutz, while Klein-Rhoden is probably in expression and truth one of the most important things that has been shown by a film so far. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The Landstrasse". In: Neue Freie Presse , December 28, 1913, p. 25 (online at ANNO ).