Else and her cousin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Else and her cousin |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | 3 acts, approx. 33 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis Neher |
| script | Margarete Lindau-Schulz |
| production | Jules Greenbaum for Greenbaum-Film GmbH Berlin |
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Else and her cousin was the 4th part of the Else film series with the theater actress Else Eckersberg , which was made between 1916 and 1921. It was produced by Jules Greenbaum . Louis Neher realized it from a screenplay by Margarete Lindau-Schulz .
In this episode Else Eckersberg played next to the title role of "Else" also the cousin, so also appeared in a trouser role . At her side are Wilhelm Diegelmann as uncle and Senta Söneland as aunt, as well as Julius Falkenstein .
action
Else is Else for the aunt, but plays her own cousin for the uncle.
background
The film was available to the Berlin Police Licensing Authority in a length of 3 acts and received under No. 40 445 Youth ban. It was premiered on April 27, 1917 in Berlin in the Tauentzienpalast .
reception
The film was reviewed in:
- The film No. 18, 1917
- Cinematograph No. 540, 1917
and is recorded at
- Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich 1980 (Munich) No. 235, 1917, and No. 398, 1917
literature
- Silke Arnold-de Simine, Christine Mielke: Charley's aunts and Asta's grandchildren. 100 years of crossdressing in German comedy films (1912–2012). Scientific Verlag Trier 2012, ISBN 978-3-86821-388-1 , 304 pp.
- Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich: Saur, 1980
- Thomas Brandlmeier: The weird cinema. Early German film comedy 1895–1917 (= extended German version of: Early German Film Comedy, 1895–1917). In: Thomas Elsaesser (Ed.): A Second Life. German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 1996, pp. 103-113.
- Jan-Christopher Horak: Article »Hosenrolle« in: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe (Article last changed on July 30, 2011) on line at filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de [2]
- Julia Barbara Köhne: "Moving Sex / Gender Images: Homosexuality and Cross-Dressing in German-Language Movies from the 1920s to 1950s." In: Mitteilungen des Filmarchiv Austria, No. 31: Sex is Cinema. Enlightenment and revolt in film of the 1920s and 1930s, March 2006, pp. 51–62.
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag 1956.
Web links
- Else and her cousin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Else and her cousin at filmportal.de
- Else and her cousin at The German Early Cinema Database