The silhouette of the devil
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The silhouette of the devil |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 73 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Felix Basch Joe May |
| script | Joe May |
| production | Joe May |
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The silhouette of the devil is a German silent film drama from 1917 by Joe May with his wife Mia May in the lead role.
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Mia Hauer became an orphan at an early age after her father, a miner in the colliery of the mine owner Alfred Engern, had a fatal accident. Engern took the child in and looked after it. Matured into a young woman, the two finally marry. After two years of marriage, Ms. Engern met the violin virtuoso Carlos Valdez at a ball. Mia quickly falls under its spell and threatens, completely unintentionally, to succumb to the lean aesthetic. Valdez forces a rendezvous, accompanies her to her house against her will and wants to take her when Mia's child appears and is almost frightened to death by the shadow of the stranger, his silhouette. This saves Mia her integrity and honor in that moment.
Two years have passed since then and Frau Engern has not heard from the creepy Valdez. Then he comes back to your city. Again he forces a night rendezvous with the mine owner's wife. To finally get rid of him, Mia goes to him, a revolver in her pocket. But she actually intends to kill herself before his eyes. A duel ensues, a shot is fired, and Valdez falls to the ground, hit. He dies instantly. The young woman escapes the scene without being seen. Instead, another man appears on the scene who robs the dead. When the rascal is arrested for possessing a watch that belonged to Carlos Valdez, the police also consider him the murderer. Mia then leaves her husband a letter in which she explains what happened with Valdez and turns herself in to the police. She is sentenced to one year in prison for negligent homicide. After serving her sentence, her husband takes her back home.
Production notes
The silhouette of the devil was created in the winter of 1916/17. The film passed the film censorship in February 1917, was banned from young people and was shown on February 22, 1917 in the Tauentzienpalast . The Austrian version of the four-act act was around 1,500 meters long and was launched that same year.