The bathing nymph
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| Original title | The bathing nymph |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | about 60 minutes |
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| Director | William cauliflower |
| production | Franz Vogel for Eiko, Berlin |
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The Bathing Nymph is a German silent film society drama with Johanna Terwin in the leading role.
action
The beautiful wife of a millionaire declares herself ready to be a model for an artist who is gripped by inner emptiness and in a creative crisis. She is driven by pure enthusiasm for art, although some friends also tried to persuade her. The work of the sculptor is said to be called The Bathing Nymph and to achieve a strong artistic (as well as erotic) effect. In order not to give her husband the wrong impression and not to let jealousy arise in the first place, she does not tell him anything about her intention. When he nevertheless gets on the track of what they are doing, the millionaire is all the more outraged, as he senses a case of beginning adultery.
With the finished sculpture with his wife's features in mind, he sees his worst fears confirmed. He confronts her, but the dearest one denies ever having acted as a model. Only when she also sees the bathing nymph , in view of the striking resemblance, can she no longer deny that her body provided the template. Shame and fear lead to the fact that the model in its paranoia sees itself constantly and everywhere pursued by the marble sculpture. On the run from her stone image, the woman flees into a lake whose waters swallow her. Only when he sees her corpse does the grieving widower learn that he had wrongly suspected his dead wife. He must note that the sister of the sculptor's friend who had once persuaded the woman to be a model was present at every meeting.
Production notes
The bathing nymph was created in the spring of 1914 in the Eiko-Film-Atelier in Berlin-Marienfelde . The three-act play with a length of around 1100 meters passed the censorship in May 1914 and was probably premiered a little later.
criticism
“Johanna Terwin in the role of millionaire's wife shows herself here as an artist who is also up to the most difficult task that the film poet gives her. Your artistic achievement in this picture is all the more highly valued, since your role in this regard does not give the opportunity for strong expressive effects and yet requires strong dramatic skills. "