The marsh flower
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| Original title | The marsh flower |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 69 minutes |
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| Director | Viggo Larsen |
| script | Rudolf del Zopp |
| production | Deutsche Kinematographenwerke Dresden & Cologne |
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Die Sumpfblume is a German silent film melodrama shot in 1913 by and with Viggo Larsen and Wanda Treumann as his partner.
action
At the center of the action is a young girl who, along with many other young women, is looking for a career as an animation lady, dancer or model in more or less dubious entertainment establishments - pubs, bars and backstairs - in pre-war Paris. This milieu is viewed by the moralists of that time as a (moral) swamp, and a clever, career-conscious young lady who climbs out of this swamp and escapes is called the “swamp flower”. One example of this species is called Sandra, and she seems to have washed up. The German sculptor Edgar von Schmetting runs a studio in Montmartre and is fascinated by this marsh flower. He falls for Sandra, wants to model her bare foot and even borrows 20,000 marks which, in the tradition of Prof. Higgins in My Fair Lady , he wants to invest in the upbringing of Sandra in order to make her a decent lady of society.
But swamp flower Sandra cannot hide the gutter from which she has climbed and one day runs away with the 20,000 marks, because she believes that with this (not belonging to her) sum she can educate herself like Edgar in her suicide note. With the money in her pocket and excessive ambition, Sandra soon becomes a great variety star. One day she met Count Dahlenberg, a nobleman whom she quickly wrapped around her finger and finally married. The marsh flower with the allegedly inglorious past becomes a lady of society ... if it weren't for a past life as a cellar child with a dissolute past and a short-term career as a half-naked model of an artist. But one day it will come to light. The result: the count goes crazy and strangles his improper wife with his hands. "Marsh flowers shoot up, delight and die from the marsh air that they drag behind."
Production notes
The marsh flower was created in the spring of 1913 in the Treumann Larsen film studio in Berlin-Lankwitz and had four nudes spread over a length of 1,259 meters. The film passed the censorship on May 19, 1913, was banned from young people and premiered on September 2, 1913. In the Sumpfblume is the first film of Treumann-Larsen Series 1913/14.
criticism
“The picture is presented in the most perfect way and in its entire execution offers moments of an entertaining, unobstructed and beautiful development. Wanda Treumann shows her whole boyish, fun-loving being in the first act, develops into an artistic mondaine in the second, is a perfect lady in the third act and in the fourth act reaches a height of her representational art that does justice to the tragedy of the fate described. In Viggo Larsen she has an equal partner. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ cit. n. Cinematographische Rundschau of September 7, 1918. p. 18
- ↑ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films 1913-1914, p. 172
- ↑ Cinematographische Rundschau of September 7, 1918. P. 18
Web links
- The marsh flower at The German Early Cinema Database
- The swamp flower at filmportal.de
- Meadowfoam in the Internet Movie Database (English)