The golden mummy
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The golden mummy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | about 70 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Eichberg |
| script | Carl Schneider |
| production | Richard Eichberg |
| camera | Max Terno |
| occupation | |
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The Golden Mummy is a German silent film drama from 1918 by Richard Eichberg .
action
The young Alex Morin works as a secretary for the famous Egyptologist Prof. Mäander. He tries to relax his subordinate's fiancée Myra Korff. He lures Myra away from Morin with promises. This in turn he puts in his apartment under drugs mixed in the wine. In the ensuing intoxication, Morin, who last deciphered an Egyptian hieroglyphic tablet, finds himself in a strange dream. There, as an Egyptian, he is looking for a mysterious treasure in the burial chamber of the golden lotus. The princess, however, awakens from her dead calm and has the intruder arrested. The Egyptian quickly falls in love with the beauty, who is exactly like the real Myra. The pharaoh and father of the lotus, who in turn bears the traits of Prof. Mäander, wants to have the young troublemaker killed and plans to throw him to the lions in the cage to eat.
Back to reality: Meander married Myra, and Morin got over his grief by writing a novel. This book made him rich and famous overnight. However, Prof. Mäander's marriage to Myra did not bring him any luck, the wife costs him a lot of money. Now he is almost broke and wants to use the knowledge of the hieroglyphic writing deciphered by Morin on the Egyptian tablets to financially rehabilitate himself. His colleagues don't believe in success. Meander and his wife Myra travel to Egypt, and he starts digging like a man possessed. When the professor didn't get a millimeter further, he smashed the blackboard in despair and anger and died of a heart attack. Myra returns home alone and has to dispose of all his belongings in order to pay off the dead husband's debts. She has been seeing Morin again at the sale for a long time. Both reconcile and plan a future together.
Production notes
The golden mummy was created in the spring of 1918, passed film censorship in June of the same year and was banned from young people. The film had a length of 1438 meters in four acts and was premiered in Berlin's marble house before the end of the war .
Edmund Heuberger designed the film structures.
Reviews
“A piece of Egyptian custom rolls up before our eyes and we become conscious of the dead culture of the land of the pyramids. The decorations are absolutely stylish and created with great effort. Leontine Kühnberg portrays Myra, the lovely lotus. She not only looks gorgeous in the clothes of the twentieth century, she also knows how to be delightful as a lady from the time 5000 BC. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: “Material is very good. Photos, game and especially the scenery were excellent. "
Web links
- The golden mummy at The German Early Cinema Database
- The golden mummy at filmportal.de
- The golden mummy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: Neue Kino-Rundschau of July 27, 1918, p. 8
- ↑ The golden mummy ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Paimann's film lists
