The Blessed Excellency (1927)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Your blessed excellence |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Wilhelm Thiele Adolf Edgar Licho |
| script | Wilhelm Thiele Adolf Edgar Licho |
| camera | Werner Brandes |
| occupation | |
and Fritz Kampers , Adolf Edgar Licho, Albert Paulig | |
The blessed excellence is a German silent film fun play from 1927 by Wilhelm Thiele and Adolf Edgar Licho with Willy Fritsch and Olga Chekhova in the leading roles. The story was based on a literary source from Rudolf Presber and LW Stein.
action
The old Excellency has died, and immediately the entire environment of the high-born begins to tremble violently, because rumor has it that the Baroness von Windegg is in possession of the memoirs of the deceased. And that means: recorded histories, amours and indiscretions about all the subjects in Leuchtenstein! The blessed Excellency had written down everything that could bring many representatives of high society as well as the bourgeoisie socially into dire straits and gays. One had actually believed that with the death of the nobleman, the baroness, who was not very well liked but valued by his Excellency, would be able to get rid of it as quickly as possible, but now numerous friends, relatives and acquaintances of the blessed Excellency begin to ensnare this lady. Everyone wants to know if there is anything compromising about themselves in the memoir.
This curiosity even goes so far that three “honorable” citizens of society decide to risk a break-in to take a look at the mysterious memoirs. Now the baroness has an ally in the handsome and charming young Prince Ernst Albrecht, with whose help and with whom the Leuchtenstein fire brigade knows how to ward off this bold act. Finally, there is an invitation to a small festival during which the dreaded memoirs are to be read out. All the citizens have come, and many of them have their knees shaking up to their necks. In an act of higher diplomacy, however, Baroness von Windegg hands the ominous notes to the flames, and everyone present begins to breathe a sigh of relief. What nobody knows: the clever noblewoman, who is not averse to a witty trick, wanted to make fun of it, to really show off the double-faced and hypocritical Leuchtensteiner. There are no memoirs, and what became a fire in the fireplace was just a thick volume of a Brockhaus encyclopedia that she wrapped up .
Production notes
The Blessed Excellency was made in November and December 1926 in the UFA studio and passed the film censorship on February 23, 1927. The film was 2,658 meters long, divided into six acts. The strip was released for the youth. The premiere took place on September 16, 1927 in Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo .
Erich Czerwonski designed the film structures.
criticism
In the Austrian film newspaper it was said: “The manuscript and direction by EA Licho and Wilhelm Thiele were amusing and nice. The witty treatment of the nightly burglary and the threatened reading of memoirs were excellent. Olga Chekhova, who gave the baroness the features of the superior great lady of the world, towered over the depiction ... Her partner, the prince, was Willy Fritsch, who is known to have only one face of the fun-loving, happy, young man, but always wins with it. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The Blessed Excellency". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , October 15, 1927, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- Blessed excellence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The blessed excellence at filmportal.de