Jealousy (1925)
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| Original title | jealousy |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | approx. 80 (1925), approx. 58 (today's version) minutes |
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| Director | Karl Grune |
| script | Paul Czinner |
| production | Max Schach for Stern-Film, Berlin |
| music | Eduard Trasch |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann |
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Jealousy is a silent German chamber play film by Karl Grune from 1925. The main roles are played by Lya de Putti and Werner Krauss .
action
The couple Marthe and Georges Ménard have just gone to the theater to see the new play by a mutual friend, Pierre de Ronceray. This play is about a love triangle and the great, all-dominating power of jealousy that also grips these protagonists. At the end of the play, the husband strangles his wife, who is suspected of infidelity. Georges then gets into conversation with Pierre and makes a little fun of what he thinks is nonsensical and not very credible ending. Georges claims that no man in the world would behave like this today and turn his wife's neck out of jealousy. Pierre sees this criticism of Georges as a challenge and would like to try an experiment with this couple: Is this supposedly perfect marriage between Marthe and Georges really safe from attacks of jealousy and its dire consequences?
Marthe too has her doubts about her husband's reason, which is supposed to keep her from jealousy. One tries now to the test. First of all, Marthe has flowers sent to her. Nobody knows the sender, nobody knows the reasons for this present. With Georges the first doubts are sown: What if Marthe might have a lover and he doesn't know anything about it? But even with her, Pierre de Ronceray spreads the seeds of doubt. Marthe finds a small, blond curl in her husband's pocket watch. This cannot possibly belong to the wife, who wears a fashionable, dark short hairstyle. So does her husband have a lover? Marthe too now has to find out that she is not free from jealousy. Your husband now wants to know exactly, follows his wife on a stroll through town. Georges sees Marthe talking to a child who, when saying goodbye, calls his wife “Mama”. Could Marthe be secretly a mother? Then who is the father?
In Georges Ménard the jealousy is boiling up, which some time before he had grandly claimed that he is immune to it and that it is not worthy of a modern man today. But the doubts soon acquire a strange momentum of their own, and the feelings boil up to ecstasy. In a fit of jealousy, Georges throws his wife to the ground and begins to strangle her, like the protagonist in Pierre's play once did. At the last moment, both friends, the playwright, join in, intervene to help and prevent a passionate murder. Pierre now explains to Georges and Marthe, and it becomes clear to both of them that they were part of an experiment. They realize that no one is completely immune to jealousy, but also that the basis of every relationship, every functioning marriage, should be mutual trust.
Production notes
Jealousy passed the censorship on September 11, 1925 and was shown for the first time on September 17 of the same year in the Berlin premiere theater Kurfürstendamm. The length of the five-act was 2021 meters. In Austria, the film was sold from February 12, 1926 under the title The Man, the Woman and the Third .
The buildings come from Karl Görge . Walter Lehmann was the unit manager. Eugen Schüfftan was responsible for the trick photography.
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: "The very subtle subject brings the much-used triangle problem in a cheerful manner, the direction goes into great detail, is content with hints where the accusation could lead to clarity, and is characterized by a brisk pace throughout. The representation is excellent, Krauss a top performance, Alexander condemns his role to be more passive. The presentation is clean, the photos passable. "
Web links
- Jealousy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jealousy at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jealousy in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 11, 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.
