The Sins of the Fathers (1913)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The sins of the fathers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | 3 acts, 911 meters, around 45 minutes at 18 fps |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urban Gad |
| script | Urban Gad |
| production | Deutsche Bioscop GmbH Berlin on behalf of the Projektions-AG "Union" (PAGU) (Frankfurt am Main) |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
| occupation | |
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The sins of the fathers is the title of a "mimic drama" (so the subtitle of the silent film), which Urban Gad directed according to his own script in 1913 with Asta Nielsen in the leading role for Deutsche Bioscop GmbH in Berlin. The literary model was a novel by the German author Hermann Sudermann .
action
Hanna's father is addicted to alcohol and drinks the money. In order to supplement the household budget, she takes a position as a model at a painting academy. There she met and fell in love with the young painter Marten. He begins a relationship with her, but quickly forgets her again when he goes to Italy to study. Disappointed, Hanna begins to drink to comfort herself.
After his return from Italy, Marten no longer knows Hanna. He approaches her in a pub and asks her to model an allegorical representation of alcoholism. Hanna agrees. But when the picture is finished, she destroys it again in revenge. Like her father, she perishes before her time.
background
The photos were taken at the turn of the year 1912/13 in the Bioscop studio in Berlin- Neubabelsberg , Chausseestrasse 123. The camera was shot by the Saxon cinema pioneer Guido Seeber , who shot a series of Asta Nielsen films for PAGU from 1911 to 1913.
The film was submitted to the Berlin censorship on January 28, 1913 and was banned under No. 13.7 for young people. It was also titled The Sin of Their Fathers . The first performance took place on February 28, 1913 in Berlin. Internationale Film-Vertriebs GmbH (Frankfurt am Main and Vienna) took over the first distribution.
In Denmark it only had its premiere on August 25, 1913. On April 26, 1914, he started in the United States under the title The Devil's Assistant , alternatively he was also called Regina there . It was imported by Pathé Frères and distributed by the General Film Company .
The film should not be confused with the educational film of the same title, made five years later, which was also awarded under the title Poisoned People . It wasn't about alcoholism, but about sexually transmitted diseases.
reception
“The story of the painter and the model takes a rebellious turn here: the exaltation of the woman in the work of art is followed by the fall that this woman suffers in reality. In the end it destroys the image for which it served as a model of the »misery of the hopeless«. "
The film was reviewed in:
- Union Theater Newspaper No. 8, 1913.
- Union Theater Newspaper No. 9, 1913.
- Photo stage No. 23, 1913.
- Forbidden cinematograph pictures No. 100, 1913, p. 132.
and is recorded at
- Lamprecht Vol. 13 No. 170
- Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich 1980 (Munich) No. 311, 1913.
He was performed
- in the Lichtspiele Rendsburg, Schleifmühlenstraße 8, from May 17 to 19, 1913 under the title The Sins of the Fathers .
The film was announced as follows in the Rendsburger Tageblatt (Rendsburg) on Saturday, May 17, 1913:
“The highlight of the season! (...) Great play in 3 acts by Urban Gad with the world-famous tragedian Asta Nielsen. »The Sins of the Fathers« is the best art film that Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad have brought us to this day. Only 3 days a sensational program which is hardly surpassed. "
And after the presentation, on May 19, 1913, the following was added:
"The first performance achieved a resounding huge success when the house was occupied."
- in the "Colosseum" cinema in Leipzig, in the "Wintergarten" in Leipzig and in "Lindenfels Castle" in Leipzig on July 28, 1914 under the title The Sins of the Fathers .
The Leipziger Volkszeitung (Leipzig) of July 28, 1914 announced the sins of the fathers as a “gripping drama in two acts. Nordic Art Film ”on; he was together with the film The Believed Dead - A novel from life in 3 chapters. listed.
In Prague, the film ran from April 23 to May 1, 1913 at the Grand Theater Electrique Elite , Pořič 5.
literature
- Gerald Bär: The motif of the doppelganger as a split fantasy in literature and in German silent films (= Volume 84 of International Research on General and Comparative Literature, ISSN 0929-6999 ). Verlag Rodopi, 2005, ISBN 90-420-1874-7 , p. 626.
- Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
- Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film. Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Kindler, Munich 1956 (The photos shown here on p. 324, 327, however, belong to the American part talkie (partial sound film ) Sins of the fathers from 1928 with Ruth Chatterton and Emil Jannings!)
- Gerhard Lamprecht: German silent films, Vols. 1-8 and general index: German silent films from the years 1903 to 1931. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
- Nicolaj Meyer: Asta Nielsen: The staging of "the Duse" in Prague. The cinema advertisements for the Asta Nielsen series in 1912/13 in the Prager Tagblatt . Term paper from the seminar "The First Film Stars" in the subject of media studies at the University of Trier in the summer semester 2013. (PDF online)
- Ingrid Nohl: The dramatic work of Hermann Sudermann. Attempt to present his social criticism in the theater in the 19th and 20th centuries and in film. Dissertation . Cologne 1973 cf. Heidi
- Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation (ed.): The wandering image. The film pioneer Guido Seeber (1879–1940). Cameraman, inventor, technician, artist, filmmaker, publicist . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1979.
- Prohibited cinematograph images. Alphabet. Directory prohibited. Films about the Gebr. Fd police authorities u. Cinematograph holder. König, Guben o. J. - DNB 587306335 .
- Heide Schlüpmann, Eric de Kuyper, Karola Gramann, Sabine Nessel, Michael Wedel (eds.): Impossible love. Asta Nielsen, her cinema. 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-82-7 .
- Heide Schlüpmann, Eric de Kuyper, Karola Gramann, Sabine Nessel, Michael Wedel (eds.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films. 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 .
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors . Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1956.
Web links
- The sins of the fathers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Sins of the Fathers at The German Early Cinema Database
- The sins of the fathers at filmportal.de
Illustrations
- Advertisement by the Grand Theater Electrique Elite for the film from the Prager Tagblatt of April 27, 1913, "Gripping life novel in three acts by Urban Gad", ill. at Meyer PDF online
- Still photo from the Filmarchiv Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miss Stoike is one of the two sisters Irma and Else Stoike who were employed on theaters in Berlin at the time
- ↑ cf. Berlin film studios. A small lexicon, cinegraph.de
- ↑ 1911 In the big moment, Gypsy blood, The poor Jenny, The strange bird; 1912 The girl without a fatherland, the general's children, the dance of death, when the mask falls, youth and madness, death in Seville and the sins of the fathers, cf. The Wanderende Bild p. 68 and cinematographers.nl , there also pictures of Seeber with a camera
- ↑ founded by the Rhineland cinema entrepreneur Christoph Mülleneisen, together with the Projektions-Aktien-Gesellschaft Union (PAGU) and the Austro-Hungarian Cinema Industry GmbH., Cf. Meyer p. 3.
- ↑ IMDb / release info
- ↑ The Sins of the Fathers. Germany 1918. Imperial-Film GmbH (Berlin), director unknown, cf. filmportal.de
- ↑ filmarchiv.at, p. 12 PDF online ( memento of the original from June 26, 2015 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.
- ↑ cf. The Lichtspiele Rendsburg program from May 19, 1913.
- ↑ Colosseum, 1908–1928 cinema in the building Roßplatz 12/13, cf. Leipzig Lexicon and Kinowiki
- ↑ Wintergarten-Lichtspiele, 1909–1989 cinema at Eisenbahnstrasse 56 (Neuschönefeld), cf. Leipzig Lexicon and Kinowiki
- ↑ Schaubühne Schloss Lindenfels, Leipzig-Plagwitz, Karl Heine Str. 50, opened on February 13, 1913, cf. allekinos.com
- ↑ cf. GECD program # 1262
- ↑ with the naming of Asta Nielsen and her director Urban Gad in newspaper advertising, cf. Meyer , p. 8: "For The Sins of Fathers , the Prague final film in the series, the screenwriter and director even finds space in all six advertisements".
