The motor bride

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Movie
Original title The motor bride
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1925
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Eichberg
script Helmuth Ortmann
production Richard Eichberg
camera Heinrich Gärtner
(photographic director)
Erich Grimmler
occupation

Die Motorbraut - Liebe, Leid und Sport is a German feature film from 1925.

action

The daughter of the industrialist Amberg, Eva, is a passionate engine builder and engaged to Hans. She works on a boat engine she invented. When one day Frank, an escaped prisoner, jumps in front of her car, she gives him work at her father's plant. Together they complete the engine. In a major race, the engine should pass its last test of suitability for everyday use. In this race, the petrol tank flies over the ears, but Frank can save Eva. Frank is recognized as a fugitive, so that he flees again, but this time with Eva. They get married in London and then go to South America. There Frank is recognized again and flees into the sea. Since he does not reappear, his death is assumed. Years later, Eva is married to Hans, the man who was believed dead returns. Frank notices that Eva is happy. On a joint mountain tour by Eva, Frank and Hans, during which they get into trouble, Frank ultimately sacrifices himself through his suicide and thus saves Eva and Hans.

background

The production company was Eichberg-Film GmbH Berlin on behalf of Südfilm AG Berlin, which also took over the first distribution. Jacques Rotmil was responsible for the buildings . The shooting took place from August to October 1924 in Hamburg and on Jungfrauenjoch in Switzerland.

It has a length of six files at 2,432 meters, approx. 97 minutes. The lengths of the files were 399, 436, 402, 384, 431 and 380 meters.

The premiere took place on January 22nd, 1925 in the Marble House in Berlin.

Lilian Harvey was in front of the camera for the first time. The film is considered lost.

Censorship decision

On December 6, 1924, the decision of the Berlin Film Testing Center was announced. The film may be shown in the German Reich, but only under two conditions:

1. In Act II, Title 5, a sequence must be cut out.

It is about a dream of Eva Amberg: In this one a jewel thief is caught red-handed by the father and the groom while breaking into the sleeping woman's room. The father shoots the culprit, who is also armed with a club. However, the thief spits out the bullet. He knocks down the father. Thereupon Eva's groom stabs him with a saber. Nevertheless, the thief manages to knock down the bridegroom as well. Then the thief breathes on the maid, who has now also appeared, so that she suddenly only appears in her underwear. The thief flees Eva, choking, flying out of the window. They float over water and suddenly fall, while he is still choking Eva.

This dream sequence appears to the examiners as "brutal and demoralizing" because "even if one takes into account the sometimes humorous effects, there is still so much brutality left that the risk of a brutal effect cannot be dismissed" be.

2. The title of Act III must be removed.

The title was “I do not recognize judgment and punishment. What I did was my right and my duty ”. The examiners went too far when the manslaughter of Eva's seducer is presented not only as a right but even as a duty: "In less critical and educated circles, the effect must create confusion about the simplest ethical terms and thus bring about a demoralizing effect."

Since Eichberg-Film appeals against this decision, the film was shown again two days later in front of the film inspection agency. Eichberg himself was present as a representative of his company. The complaint was partially successful. The ban on the title of the third act was upheld, but the dream sequence was allowed to be performed from now on. This decision was justified by the fact that the dream sequence is clearly one and it is also recognizable as a (permitted) grotesque.

criticism

The film courier called Die Motorbraut a “public film, how it will probably affect the audience for a long time to come”. Eichberg's staging was described as "daring" with a "naive joy in the subject".

The Filmkritische Rundschau stated: “The plot is not exactly captivating. You always have the feeling that the matter could be over now if Mr. Ortmann doesn't keep adding a new drama. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The film length calculator results in a frame rate of 22
  2. ^ Protocol of the censorship decision of December 6, 1924 at the German Film Institute
  3. ^ Minutes of the censorship decision of December 8, 1924 at the German Film Institute
  4. ^ Review in: Film-Kurier , Vol. 7, No. 20, January 23, 1925.
  5. ^ Review in: Filmkritische Rundschau. The motor bride. In: Kinematograph , Vol. 19, No. 936, January 25, 1925, p. 31.