The dancer (1915)
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| Original title | The dancer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 63 minutes |
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| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| production | German Mutoskop- u. Biographer, Berlin |
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The Dancer is a German silent film from 1915 by Georg Jacoby .
action
An old violinist roams the country with his ward, a young girl named Manja. For a few alms he plays his instrument while the little one has to dance to it. One day the head of a ballet school discovers her and takes Manja in to train her professionally and finally to integrate Manja into the dance formation he runs. In order to get the approval for this, the director promises the guardian a monthly pension. The talented girl, whom he pummeled hard during her training, soon rose to become the star of the dance troupe and ensured full cashes. Her mentor turns out to be a brutal oppressor, and to make matters worse, he wants more from the dancer than just her artistic performance. When the old man tries to rape, a young pianist intervenes and tries to protect Manja from this assault. But the ballet school director fends off him with a knife stab and seriously injures the young artist.
There is a trial, and since the ballet school director has been violent several times in the past and has a corresponding criminal record, this time he has to go to prison for several years. Manja is now without a job and without earnings, and her old guardian is neither willing to take her back nor to support her financially. The starving and emaciated artist staggered through the streets when one day she collapsed in front of an approaching vehicle. Luckily for her, there is an old medical officer in the vehicle who takes care of the dancer immediately. Having been nursed back up and recovered, the old lady, after learning of the sad fate of Manja, is ready to finance the dancer's artistic training.
In fact, Manja's career now begins. She was engaged at the court theater and helped her chivalrous chastity savior, the young pianist, to become a second conductor in the same place. One day the father of the Hoftheater Kapellmeister, Kommerzialrat Bollmann, appears at Manja and asks her to perform her famous dance at a party he organizes. At the same time, her former ballet director was released after a long period of imprisonment. Together with Manja's former guardian, he forges a plot to get the pretty young woman back into his hands. Disguised as a party waiter, the villain Manja follows her performance into her house and tries to complete what he was once disturbed. He strangles the young woman until she faints. Through a chain of unfortunate circumstances, the Commercial Council is suspected of having committed this act and is sent to prison. However, his son, the Kapellmeister, succeeds in finding the real culprit. Papa is so touched by both young people's commitment that he gives his blessing for an early marriage between them.
Production notes
The dancer was shot in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof in 1915 . The three-act play with a length of about 1150 meters passed the film censorship in July 1915 and was probably premiered in the summer of the same year.
criticism
“In a very exciting plot, the fate of a young, pretty girl… is told. (...) This plot is presented in an extremely gripping manner. Irrah Bernhard [sic!] As a dancer and Ludwig Hartau as director of the ballet school show themselves to be excellent representatives of the art of mimic representation. The equipment and staging (director Georg Jakoby) is first class. "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ the text in the Kinematographische Rundschau names the actress performing the dancer "Irrah Bernhard". But since such an artist never existed, there must be a confusion of names. Given that the name Irrah is extremely rare, it must be Tatiana Irrah.