The rose of the wild
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The rose of the wild |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | approx. 65 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Schmidthässler |
| script | Louis Levy |
| production | Alfred Duskes for Neutral-Film (Berlin) |
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Die Rose der Wildnis is a German silent film melodrama with Asta Nielsen , filmed in 1916 and only released in cinemas in early 1918.
action
The gypsy Jarow has fallen in love with the gypsy Wanda, who does not reciprocate his feelings. Wanda wants to make more of her life, wants to be rich and recognized. She believes that she can only achieve this by leaving the small, familiar world, the gypsy camp. When she arrives at a fortune teller, extremely tired, Wanda falls into a deep sleep and begins to dream of her desired fate.
There she meets the wealthy and respected nobleman Ruprecht von Harlau, into whose power she falls. She later became a dancer, met and fell in love with a painter named Kurt, then murdered the terrifying Ruprecht and sought protection and rescue from Kurt. Eventually she dies of a heart attack. But this was only a dream, and awakening from it, Wanda meets Jarow, who is looking for her, and becomes engaged to him.
Production notes
The rose of the wilderness was, along with Das Eskimo Baby , Dora Brandes , Im Lebenswirbel , Die Börsenkönigin , The First Patient , The Orphanage Child and Das Liebes-ABC, one of eight films that Asta Nielsen shot in the summer of 1916 for the distributor Neutral-Film under the simplest conditions . Nielsen financed Im Lebenswirbel and the other films herself; the shooting took place in the Union studio she rented in Tempelhof. After the completion of Dora Brandes and Das Liebes-ABC , there were payment differences, so that Nielsen, according to his own statement, dissolved the cooperation with the film company in court and sold the negatives that had been shot but not yet completed to another film company. According to the contract, she was obliged to insure the negatives, whereby the insurance costs should be paid to Nielsen in the event of any damage. In fact, all six of the films' original negatives were destroyed in a fire in a copier shortly after the premiere. However, the rental company claimed the insurance money for itself. The ensuing legal process between the company and Asta Nielsen was not decided in Nielsen's favor until 1922, when the sum insured had already become worthless due to inflation .
The Rose of the Wilderness was announced in Austria-Hungary under the slightly different title A Rose of the Wilderness . The three- or four-act film, depending on the source, was censored in September 1917 and premiered on February 28, 1918 in the Marble House . The Vienna premiere was announced for March 22, 1918. The film, shot in the Literaria-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Tempelhof, was 1328 meters long.
Carl Ferdinand Fischer (1889–1957) was a Danish cameraman who was brought to Berlin especially for Nielsen's 1916 productions.
criticism
In Paimann's film lists you can read: "Fantastic material, very good photos and scenery. Excellent game."
Web links
- The Rose of the Wild at The German Early Cinema Database
- The rose of the wilderness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The rose of the wild at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The German Early Cinema Database specifies another scriptwriter, Aage Brandt (1889–1970)
- ↑ a b Asta Nielsen: The silent muse. Life memories. Henschel, Berlin 1977, p. 204.
- ↑ The ABC of Love. In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films (= Kinothek Asta Nielsen. Vol. 2). Filmarchiv Austria Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , p. 213.
- ↑ A rose of the wilderness in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
