The power of gold
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The power of gold |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1912 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urban Gad |
| script | Urban Gad |
| production |
German Bioscop for PAGU |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
| occupation | |
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The Power of Gold is a German silent film drama in three acts by Urban Gad from 1912. It is one of the director's lost works.
action
The poor farmer's daughter Creszenz loves the poacher Christoph. She hides him in her forest hut when he is on the run from the forester with a killed deer, but is discovered and arrested by his pursuer. Creszenz remains alone with her mother. A painter from the big city persuades Creszenz to follow him and earn a living as a model. She accepts his offer, but after a short time flees back to her village in the sinful city. Her mother dies and the village priest now takes care of the young woman.
When Christoph is allowed to leave prison, he and Creszenz become a happy couple - both have a daughter. After a few months, however, Christoph is again active as a poacher. At a village festival, a villager indicates to him that the child is not from him, but from the Berlin painter. Crescence can dispel Christoph's doubts and Christoph stabs the slanderer in anger. He is arrested again.
Creszenz now earns her money as a wet nurse. When she is ensnared by a rich man, she gives her child to a wealthy family and moves to the man's country house. She is developing into a lady. When Christoph is released from prison, he appears in rags in front of her and Creszenz turns him away, shocked. At his urging, however, she explains to which family she has given her child and Christoph snatches his child from the foster family's nanny. With him in his arms, he hurries back to Creszenz, who has always hidden from the loss of the child. The sight of the loved one and child brings them to consciousness: the three of them return to the simple forest hut.
production
The power of gold was the sixth of eight films in the Asta Nielsen / Urban Gad series 1911/1912 , according to The Black Dream , In the Big Moment , Gypsy Blood , The Foreign Bird and The Traitor . The buildings of the film were created by Robert A. Dietrich .
The film, which was shot within a week in the summer of 1911 in the Bioscop-Atelier Chausseestrasse in Berlin, had its premiere on February 3, 1912 in the Berlin Sportpalast-Lichtspiele. In February 1913, the censors subsequently banned the power of gold with a youth ban. No surviving copy of the film is known.
literature
- The power of gold . In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter . Volume 2 of Edition Asta Nielsen, her films . 2nd Edition. Filmarchiv Austria publishing house, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , pp. 57-62.