An outcast, part 1
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | An outcast, part 1 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 76 (in Vienna 1913) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Joe May |
| production | Continental art film |
| camera |
Willy Hameister Emil Schünemann |
| occupation | |
and Karl Platen , Fritz Richard , Mary Scheller | |
An Outcast, Part 1 , often with the addition The Young Count , is an early German silent film drama from 1913 by Joe May .
action
The plot is quite complex and takes place in high society circles:
Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of the hardworking authorized signatory Guy Walser, who is employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so, after learning of this relationship, Guy ultimately calls on Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "dirty" honor . But he just laughs at it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser is concerned with the family honor and that of his sister, a heated argument ensues in which Guy unceremoniously kills the "molester of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is also destroyed, because he is brought to justice for this bloody act. There is a conviction and Guy Walser is sentenced to ten years behind bars for manslaughter . This punishment is linked to deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.
After his early pardon - he was waived three years - Guy Walser returned to Paris. There, his humanity is said to pay off amply during the brutal prison term. A fellow prisoner, Count Vilvain, whom he assisted during the deportation, left him the considerable fortune of 3,465,607 francs! Walser leaves Paris and ends up in Transylvania . There he falls in love with the youthful and enchanting Lucienne Rameau, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But he is not alone in the struggle for the favor of that lady; a devious and devious count named de Greuze is his fiercest competitor, and he doesn't stop at unfair means either. In addition, a bear that is as wild as it has gone wild keeps the action going and causes all sorts of dangers until it is killed. Eventually, Lucienne falls into Guy's arms and becomes engaged to him.
Production notes
An outcast, part 1 was made at the beginning of the year in the Continental Film Atelier in Berlin's Chausseestrasse 123. The film was censored in March 1913 and had its world premiere on March 14, 1913 in the Kammerlichtspiele on Potsdamer Platz. The film had four acts. In Austria-Hungary, where An Outcast, Part 1 was released on May 9, 1913, the strip was around 1,400 meters long.
With An Outcast, Part 2 , subtitled The Eternal Peace , a second part was released in 1915. There the Hungarian Arzén von Cserépy made his directorial debut. In this film, the story started by May was spun on and tells how Guy Walser is caught up with his past again.
Paul Leni designed the film structures here; An outcast, Part 1 could have been his first ever work for the cinema.
criticism
“You don't know which one is more delighted about: about the absolutely artistic photography with its all kinds of simply ingeniously produced light effects that completely replace the color ... or about the soon spellbinding, sometimes sweeping game that ... makes every spoken word and every syllable seem superfluous ... or about the richly structured plot, much richer than is possible in modern drama - in another word: ours grips and shakes the dramatic incessantly ... (...) In this sense, however, our latest cinema play "An Outcast" is simply a manifesto, which will also attract the cinema opponents ... "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lautensack review in the Kinematographische Rundschau was preceded by a brief overview of the cast. There his name is listed under "Banker von B.", while Lautensack calls him Lambard in his text. This role is not assigned to anyone in the German Early Cinema Database, and neither this cast list nor the one in filmportal.de, in IMDb and the one in Gerhard Lamprechts Deutsche Stummfilme 1913–1914, p. 190, do not mention Dammann's name at all
- ↑ In the cast overview in the Kinematographische Rundschau, his name is listed under “Hans von B.”, while the Lautensack review himself speaks of “Robert Lambard”.
- ↑ German Early Cinema Database Reicher assigns two roles: "Hans Rameau" (which is definitely not true) and "Beloved by Marguerite Robert", which agrees with the Lautensack text and seems very likely
- ↑ German Early Cinema Database assigns this role to Hermann Seldeneck, which should not be true for reasons of age
- ↑ according to the Kinematographische Rundschau of April 6, 1913, a film announcer of April 13, 1913 in the same trade journal and Lamprecht, p. 190. filmportal.de, however, only names two acts over a length of 700 meters. This, however, seems very unlikely given the richness of the plot.