One character
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | One character |
| Original title | Arbejdet adler / En character |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Dinesen |
| script | Agnete Blom |
| production | Ole Olsen for Nordisk Film Kompagni, Copenhagen |
| camera | Sophus Wangøe |
| occupation | |
and Frederik Jacobsen , Vita Blichfeldt , Svend Kornbeck , Erik Holberg , Ellen Ferslev , Paula Ruff , Peter Jørgensen | |
A Character is a Danish silent film drama from 1914 directed by Robert Dinesen with Valdemar Psilander in the lead role.
action
The shipowner Kurt Rømer is an uncomfortable fellow: hard-hearted and stubborn, greedy and lustful. While a serious accident with one of his ships determines the news situation, the married man is unmoved having fun with a lover in his villa. When his wife catches him doing this, she takes the riding whip and pulls it across his face. In a kind of shock, Rømer mounts his horse and rides away from his property. After a course over hill and dale, horse and rider are soon so exhausted that Kurt falls to the ground. The horse falls on Rømer, who can no longer free himself on his own. An old hermit comes along and pulls the unfortunate out from under the dying animal. The care that the old man gives the extremely rich shipowner snob is like a catharsis that should make him a better person. Over time, the hermit forms a character out of the self-loving egomaniac and teaches him to do a proper job.
Contrary to expectations, Rømer is ready to take this path of complete self-purification and is completely reorganizing his life. His first job is that of a freight forwarder in the port. As luck would have it, one day he met his wife again when she was visiting his new employer. However, one does not recognize each other. When a heavy box floating above her loosens from the anchoring chain of the crane carrying her while walking across the harbor, it is Rømer who, thanks to a courageous leap, saves his wife from certain death. Kurt's new boss finds that his smart employee is called to do more than just do simple loading work and brings him to his office. Kurt Rømer's second career begins, but this time he honestly deserves it with his own hands and diligence. He quickly climbed the corporate ladder and soon became his boss's favorite employee. Kurt, the serious man and bon vivant, has actually become a completely new person, a character. When they meet with his wife again, Kurt and she strangle at first, but an illness eventually brings them together again. From now on, both spouses are always there for each other, and Kurt can also win back their heart.
Production notes
One character had three acts and premiered on September 28, 1914. In Germany, where the film could probably be seen before the end of 1914, a youth ban was imposed. The Danish original title indicates the intellectual intention of the film quite well: "Arbejdet adler" means "work ennobles".
criticism
“Psylander plays a role in the drama 'A Character' that he likes to play. It gives him the opportunity to develop the full range of his skills. The force as well as the supple, the seriousness as well as the cheerful carelessness, the sensuality as the shy love. A real psylander. With whom it is enough that he plays, and it does not matter whether the subject is wider or narrower, better or weaker. (...) This action is summed up in splendid pictures in the well-known, artistically elegant treatment of the Nordisk factory. "