The white slave (1910)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The white slave |
| Original title | The hvide slave trade I. |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1910 |
| length | 30, 45 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | August Blom |
| script | Louis Schmidt |
| production | Ole Olsen |
| camera | Axel Sørensen |
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The White Slave is a 1910 Danish silent film directed by August Blom .
action
The plot is closely related to the photorama version from the spring of the same year 1910: the young Danish woman Anna reads an advertisement in the newspaper according to which an interesting job is being advertised in England. She travels to London and leaves her friend Georg, who is sad about her departure, at home. Girl traffickers already inspected Anna during the crossing with the ship. When they arrived on British soil, these men received Anna. As soon as they landed in their clutches, the young Danish woman is kidnapped and held captive in a brothel. With the help of a chambermaid who works there, who looks forward to the actions of the smugglers with growing unease, Anna is able to send a letter to her father. He immediately goes to the local police, but they declare that they are not responsible for this case, which is taking place abroad.
Now Georg becomes active; he desperately wants to save his girlfriend. He also crosses over to London and turns to a detective there with his request for help. On the ship passage he recognized a man whom he believes he saw on board when Anna embarked. Georg quickly begins to see the connections. The detective and Georg secretly follow the man from the ship. He'll take her to the brothel. They both manage to get in touch with Anna. She ropes out of the window and out of the window with a bed sheet from the room in which she is being held, but is captured again a little later by the girl traffickers. The police, notified by the detective, approaches and turns the brothel upside down, but: no trace of Anna. But then the government receives a decisive tip from the chambermaid: Anna is being held captive on a ship! There Anna is found and freed. She returns to her home country with Georg.
Production notes
The White Slave , not a 1: 1 remake of the Nordisk film from 1906 , is the first film in a three-part cycle on the subject of girl trafficking that Nordisk Film Kompagni produced from 1910 to 1912. Film writer Louis Schmidt had already provided the script for the film of the same name by the Aarhuser Fotorama Society, which was released in Danish cinemas four months before this production and led to a plagiarism lawsuit between the two companies. However, the Nordisk version was more than twice as long as the modest flick from Aarhus and, compared to the previously released film of the same name, was a great international success, especially in Germany. Ironically, the Nordisk plagiarism has stood the test of time, while the Fotorama original is considered lost.
The white slave was 603 meters long and called on August 2, 1910 in Copenhagen's Panoptikonteatret. Cinematographer Axel Graatkjær , who still operated here under the name of Axel Sørensen, had already shot the first White Slave film from 1906.
Web links
- The white slave in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hvide slave trade in the Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
- The hvide slave trade in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Georges Sadoul: History of the cinematic art . Vienna 1957, p. 68 .