The last cab from Berlin

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Movie
Original title The last cab from Berlin
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1926
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Carl Boese
script Leo Haller ,
Rudolf Strauss
production Lupu Pick for Rex-Film AG , Berlin
music Giuseppe Becce
camera Antonio Frenguelli
occupation

The Last Droschke from Berlin is a German feature film by the director Carl Boese from 1926.

action

A cold winter in Berlin. The stubborn old cab driver Lüdecke refuses to go along with the change from the old horse-drawn carriage to the automobile. His business is bad and his wife Auguste implores the unteachable to please get a 12-cylinder. Lüdecke remains stubborn. He does not want to part with the old, in comparison to the new times, leisurely pace, his horse-drawn carriage and his Klepper Liesken. The son Karl is supposed to take over Lüdecke's business one day and suspects how bad his father would react if he wanted to continue the company with an automobile taxi instead of a horse-drawn carriage. Lüdecke's daughter Margot is engaged to the taxi driver Flottmann, they want to get married. Lüdecke, however, is against marriage.

Flottmann buys a watch from a fence for Margot as a gift. The stolen goods are found with him and Flottmann has to justify himself to the police. Flottmann states that he did not know that it was a stolen item. Margot gets her father's approval that she may marry Flottmann, should his innocence turn out. The fence is caught and questioned and Flottmann is exonerated. So nothing stands in the way of Margot's marriage to Flottmann.

Lüdeckes son Karl secretly got his driver's license. He is ashamed of his father and tries to hide the document from him. Lüdecke is irritated by the good mood of the unemployed son and elicits his driver's license. Lüdecke says to his son: "I would not have thought that you would be capable of this."

Lüdecke stays away from his daughter's wedding celebration and twilight on his coach box and then in a pub. Drunk he sits down in his cab again. Finally a customer arrives. The customer doesn't start fast enough at Lüdecke and he opts for a motorized taxi that is just passing by. Lüdeckes anger is kindled and he wants to catch up with the automobile taxi with the horse-drawn carriage. In doing so, he loses control of the cab and drives onto the frozen Spree. He falls from the driver's seat and hits the ice. His son-in-law Flottmann saves him and brings him home.

In the end, the family finds a friendly solution: The taxi companies Lüdecke and Flottmann merge and Lüdecke can get involved with his horse-drawn carriage.

background

The film was shot in Berlin from December 1925 to January 1926. The main actor Lupu Pick, who mainly worked as a director and producer in the 1920s, produced the film himself with his production company Rex-Film. Pick used the experienced Carl Boese as a director. The film was intended as a follow-up project to The Last Man , whose screenplay Carl Mayer had originally written for Lupu Pick. Lupu Pick should have directed the film and played the main role of the porter himself, which Emil Jannings then played with great success under the direction of FW Murnaus . The cab driver Lüdecke is a figure related to this porter who, due to old age, can no longer do his work to the satisfaction of his boss and is demoted to the toilet man - the last man .

Quotes

Lupu Pick called The Last Cab in Berlin “a naturalistic slap in the face for expressionistic snobs”.

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