Don Caesar, Count of Irun
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| Original title | Don Caesar, Count of Irun |
| Country of production | Austria- Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | approx. 102 minutes |
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| Director |
Luise Kolm Jakob Fleck |
| script | Luise Kolm Jakob Fleck based on the play Don Cesar von Bazan by Adolphe d'Ennery and Philippe Dumanoir |
| production |
Anton Kolm Luise Kolm Jakob Fleck |
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Don Cäsar, Graf von Irun is an Austro-Hungarian silent film drama from 1918 by Jakob Fleck and Luise Kolm with Max Neufeld in the title role.
action
The Spaniard Don Caesar, Count of Irun, got through his entire legacy through his gambling addiction and alcohol consumption. Now he has returned to Madrid and immediately enters his pub. There he soon got into a dispute with regulars about the chastisement of the son of an armorer, which continued on the street and escalated. The accused is accused by an officer of not having properly cleaned and cared for the weapons. To protect him from the blows of the cane, the count takes on the captain. This leads to a serious argument in which the officer dies at Caesar's hand. Since duels were forbidden at the behest of the Spanish king under threat of death, Don Caesar is then arrested and imprisoned. The strand threatens him. The armorer's son follows him into the dungeon out of solidarity.
Meanwhile, Majesty wants to have fun with the street singer Maritana, on whom he has cast an eye, and orders his minister to bring the young lady to him. But since such a street girl is not capable, she first has to be made acceptable and given a title. The minister therefore has a brilliant idea: why not kill two birds with one stone? He explains to the count's death row inmate that he would get one wish if he showed himself ready to marry the same Maritana beforehand, so that the young woman would become a Countess of Irun in this way. Maritana is supposed to be brought to him in a veiled state so that neither of them can see the circumstances under which the morbid wedding ceremony takes place. Don Caesar is ready to do this, but demands an honorable way of death by shooting. This request is granted to him. At the wedding ceremony, Don Caesar promises his veiled bride in a black and humorous manner: "Faithful to death!"
A request for mercy has now been submitted to the king that he is also ready to sign. But since the minister needs a dead Count von Irun in order to be able to comply with the royal wish of a street singer who is befitting of his rank, the court now tries to deliberately delay the act of grace in the hope that the execution will then be carried out. When the execution was about to take place, Don Caesar fell to the ground after the "shots" and marked the dead man. But he is not dead, because the armourer exchanged the bullets from the fusiliers' rifles out of gratitude for the count's work in favor of his son. With the help of the armorer, Caesar in the monk's robe manages to escape from the royal dungeon. On this escape he encounters a sedan chair whose occupant, to his great amazement, is addressed as "Countess of Irun". He learns her address and confronts the deeply astonished young lady that she is standing in front of her husband. Maritana can hardly believe it, because she has just rejected an amorous and intrusive man who has also pretended to be the "Count of Irun". How could she have guessed that this was her own king who was dying to drag her into his royal bed?
Now the real Count of Irun becomes active. He rushes to the Queen, whose strolling husband of the gods has for the time being healed of his attempts at cheating, and finds the monarch in fierce defense against the scheming minister who once wanted his death. Don Caesar pulls out his sword and stabs the intrusive villain so that he dies. For this act of glory, the king, who learns of the ministerial harassment against his wife, appoints him as the new governor of Granada in gratitude . Maritana, who has long since fallen in love with her true Count, follows him there into a happy future.
Production notes
Don Cäsar, Graf von Irun was written in the late phase of the First World War and was premiered on October 11, 1918 in Vienna. The five-stroke had a length of around 2100 meters and 75 subtitles and was banned from young people.
The same story was remade in Hollywood in 1923 by Ernst Lubitsch under the title Rosita .
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The material, scenery and play were excellent. Photos very good. "
Web links
- Don Caesar, Count von Irun at The German Early Cinema Database
- Don Caesar, Count of Irun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don Caesar, Count von Irun ( Memento of the original from March 14, 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
