Poor Jenny

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Movie
Original title Poor Jenny
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1912
Rod
Director Urban Gad
script Urban Gad
production German Bioscop
for PAGU
camera Guido Seeber
occupation

Poor Jenny is a German silent film drama in three acts by Urban Gad from 1912.

action

The 29-year-old Jenny, daughter of the righteous but poor foreman Schmidt, meets the rich Eduard Reinhold while cleaning the stairs. He flirts with her and gives her his business card, on which he has written the time and place for a rendezvous. With the help of her sister, whom she dresses up for a meeting, she can steal from the house. Eduard ensnares her, makes her big and lets her hope for a life as a lady by his side. When her father finds out about their rendezvous, he rejects her. The inexperienced Jenny, on the other hand, has to realize that her lover is a bon vivant and philanderer whom she would never marry as an equal. Jenny leaves the city now homeless.

Some time later she lives in the big city. Far from family, she now has to earn her living in a variety theater, where she becomes the star of a dance group in light clothes. When she dances for the guests again one evening, she has no idea that Eduard is also in the audience. It was only when she started collecting the tip that she suddenly recognized him and fell madly around his neck. Eduard escapes from the bar, while Jenny is immediately dismissed by the vaudeville operator.

A year later, Jenny went down further in society. She celebrates her 30th birthday alone in a café where she smokes and drinks. When she saw an advertisement in the newspaper announcing the engagement of her former lover, she lost her courage to face life. Jenny drives one last time to her parents' house and then wanders through the winter night until she collapses exhausted in the snow. She remains lying motionless.

production

Poor Jenny was shot in the Bioscop studio in Berlin within a week in the summer of 1911. After The Black Dream , In the Big Moment , Gypsy Blood , The Stranger Bird , The Traitor and The Power of Gold, it was the seventh of eight films in the Asta Nielsen / Urban Gad series 1911/12. The buildings of the film were created by Robert A. Dietrich .

On January 31, 1912, poor Jenny was censored with a ban on children. The decisive factors were brawl and love scenes in Acts 1 and 2. The film had its premiere on March 2, 1912. It ran under the title Proletarpigen in Denmark and was performed in France in April 1912 under the title Pauvre Jenny .

The original length of the film was 858 meters. Shorter copies that have been preserved are in the possession of the film archive of the Federal Archives , the Danske Film Institute and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation .

literature

  • Poor Jenny . In: Ilona Brennicke, Joe Hembus: Classics of the German silent film 1910–1930 . Goldmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-442-10212-X , p. 175.
  • Poor Jenny . In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (ed.): Nachtfalter. Asta Nielsen, her films . Volume 2 of Edition Asta Nielsen . 2nd Edition. Filmarchiv Austria publishing house, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , pp. 63-69.
  • Poor Jenny . In: Renate Seydel, Allan Hagedorff (Ed.): Asta Nielsen. Your life in photo documents, self-testimonies and contemporary reflections . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1981, pp. 61-63.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of forbidden films according to the “Königlich Prussischen Zentral-Polizei-Blatt” from 1. – 7. February . In: Lichtbild-Theater , No. 6, February 8, 1912.
  2. ↑ Heide Schlüpmann, Eric de Kuyper, Karola Gramann, Sabine Nessel, Michael Wedel (eds.): Impossible love. Asta Nielsen, her cinema . Volume 1 of Edition Asta Nielsen . 2nd Edition. Filmarchiv Austria Publishing House, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , p. 426.
  3. ↑ Heide Schlüpmann, Eric de Kuyper, Karola Gramann, Sabine Nessel, Michael Wedel (eds.): Impossible love. Asta Nielsen, her cinema . Volume 1 of Edition Asta Nielsen . 2nd Edition. Filmarchiv Austria Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , p. 465.