A Great Night (1914)
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| Original title | A great night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | approx. 64 minutes |
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| Director | Leo L. Lewin |
| script | Julius Freund after his eponymous theater farce |
| production | Imperator-Film, Berlin |
| music | Julius Einödshofer |
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A great night is a German silent film farce from 1914 with Henry Bender .
action
The focus of the plot is Florian Pieper, the inventor of the insect powder Pieperlin, who is also chairman of the gymnastics club “Die Stramme Muscle” in Klein-Mäuseritz. His better half is called Therese, was once a cabaret star and today finds her fulfillment as director of the "Hupfhoch" flea circus. One day this caricature of a provincial travels to the cosmopolitan city of Berlin to a wrestling match at the Busch circus and is suddenly supposed to compete with a muscular challenger named Olaf, known as the "Nordic oak". If he accepts this challenge, Pieper fears, he will get a lot of thrashing; if he pinches, he is considered a coward. Either way: as the president of a gymnastics club with the presumptuous name “tight muscles”, insect powder pipit has a lot to lose in the ring. And so he stumbles from one awkward situation to another on site, but also gets to know a nice young woman with whom he falls in love: Too bad that this is his future sister-in-law of all people!
Production notes
A great night came about in the spring of 1914 and was premiered on June 5, 1914 in the Cines-Theater on Nollendorfplatz. The length of the four-act vehicle was 1183 meters when it was re-censored in June 1921. A youth ban was issued.
The same material, a long-time antics hit at the Berlin Metropol Theater, was remade in 1919 under the title The Pink Tricot . The 1926 film A Great Night is not based on this material.
criticism
"Henry Bender made his debut at the Cines-Nollendorf-Theater in a somewhat lengthy, but very droll and effective film adaptation of Julius Freundschen Posse" A great night ". The adventurous trip of the insect powder manufacturer Pieper from his provincial town to Berlin brings some images of irresistible comedy, such as the serenade of the gymnastics club to its stout chairman, the confusion in a Berlin hotel and the wrestling guest performance of the insect powder industrialist in the Busch circus. "
“The film“ A great night ”works primarily through the extremely drastic comedy that comes into its own both through the greatest situations and through the downright heartwarming comedy of the portrayal. (...) In the 5 acts, which actually keep the viewer in the most cheerful mood without interruption, there is much that was able to work so brilliantly in the comic films of the past ... namely the grotesque of the situation and the presentation. Here ... there is less emphasis on the joke than on the comedy. (...) Highly original hit scenes, in which the individual forces are also given the opportunity to let all the fire of their abilities blaze, form the ovation, which the members of the "Tight Muscle" give to the brave pipit who mates with Olaf, the "Nordic Oak." ", Want to measure, offer, and the final scene in the circus, which Henry Bender shows us in a wrestling costume with the top hat on his head and the laurel wreath around his shoulders."