The Sphinx (film)
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| Original title | The Sphinx |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eugene Illés |
| script | Eugene Illés |
| production | Alfred Duskes |
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The Sphinx is a German silent film drama filmed in 1912 with Erna Morena .
action
The focus is on the spoiled daughter of a respected commercial councilor, who is saturated with many things. The gazebo love is long behind her, the desire for excessive, wild desire without giving up the mysterious in itself, the sphinx-like, is overwhelming, and only it gives the young woman a kick. Her last attempt to dare something new brings the woman to a noble painter for whom she wants to model. He soon falls in love with her. But one of his friends advises him against this liaison, believing that this enigmatic, this sphinx, will plunge him into misery. The painter listens to this advice and, contrary to his own wishes, maintains the professional level of an artist-to-model relationship.
The two met for the first time outside the studio in the house of the Kommerzienrat, and the painter was amazed that she, the wild and unadjusted, daughter of a socially stable and highly respected man. The painter's family wanted him to marry the daughter of this distinguished man. But after this meeting of the two now everyone knows about the wild goings-on of the Kommerzienrat's daughter, and her own father casts her out. The young woman descends socially and ends up in the deepest lowlands. One day she discovers the painter's servants in a still there. Physically and psychologically completely exhausted, the servant brings her to the painter's house. There they both admit that they love each other.
Production notes
The Sphinx , also known as Sphynx , was made in the Duskes film studio at Blücherstrasse 12 in Berlin . The film was censored in January 1913, was banned from young people and was premiered on March 1, 1913. The three-act act was 1080 meters long.
Erna Morena made her film debut here. At the end of 1912 she shot three short films in quick succession for Duskes-Film, all of which passed censorship in January 1913: Besides The Sphinx , these were wrong ways and you should honor your father and mother .
criticism
“Erna Morena can be seen again in a Duskes film“ The Sphinx ”(Pathé). This actress likes to play degenerate life, beings with big question marks. The mysterious peculiarity and the mysterious superhumanity of the Sphinx find perfect expression in it. (...) Good staging, excellent play and flawless photography are characteristic of the film. "
Web links
- The Sphinx at The German Early Cinema Database
- Sphynx at filmportal.de
- The Sphinx in the Internet Movie Database (English)