Engeleins wedding

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Movie
Original title Engeleins wedding
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1916
Rod
Director Urban Gad
script Urban Gad
production Paul Davidson
for PAGU
camera Axel Graatkjær
Karl Freund
occupation
chronology

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Engelein

Engelein's wedding , subtitled Mimisches Lustspiel , is a German silent film in three acts by Urban Gad from 1916. The direct sequel to the film Engelein from 1914 is considered lost .

action

The wealthy uncle Peter J. Schneider from America got engaged to his 17-year-old niece Jesta, who had previously been presented to him as a 12-year-old. Now the wedding is coming up, which Peter's friend Josna Griggs is supposed to perform. Shortly before the wedding, four hussars are quartered on Peter's estate and the worried Peter sends his young fiancée back to the boarding school, which she only had to leave a few weeks ago due to improper behavior. The boarding school director is not happy to see Jesta again, but the next day Jesta manages to escape from the boarding school.

Jesta returns to Peter's estate, where the hussars have meanwhile also arrived. Peter only sees the renewed transformation of Jesta into a 12-year-old as a possibility to save Jesta from the hussars' pursuits. Jesta finally gives in sullenly. She puts on the short children's clothes, but predicts Peter that he will still wish to see her in long clothes.

With a doll in her arms, Jesta finally shows herself to the hussars. They are enchanted by the lively "girl" and draw who can spend which hour with her. Although Peter has found supervisors for Jesta, she manages to get rid of all the guardians - including her head of house, her father and the boarding school director, Mrs. Bittner - and to spend the time with the hussars.

Pastor Griggs shows up for the wedding as agreed, but has to hear complaints about Jesta from all sides. He gives Jesta a costume of educational blows and she now tearfully refuses to become Peter's wife after this treatment. Only good persuasion makes her appear as a bride: she has shortened her wedding dress by hand to knee height and is carrying a little piglet on a leash with her. Now the predicted moment has come when Peter begs Jesta to wear long clothes again. After all, the wedding ceremony takes place in the right wedding dress.

production

The silent film Engelein had already appeared in 1914 , for which Asta Nielsen received critical praise for her comedic talent. The film was well received by the audience, which is why filming of Engelein's wedding began as early as 1914 , the content of which is directly linked to Engelein . The shooting took place in the Union-Atelier Tempelhof .

The film was finished in 1915, but was banned in September 1915 for the duration of the First World War . The ban was lifted in 1916. The German premiere took place on March 24, 1916; in Denmark was Angel One Wedding released in cinemas already on 13 March 1916th No surviving copy of the film is known.

criticism

The cinematograph wrote in 1916 for the sequel to Engelein's wedding : “Here, too, it is not the film as such, although it brings some extraordinary things in terms of both content and technology, but it is Asta Nielsen's excellent play, and I can only repeat today, that this artist as a performer of humorous roles has so far not been appreciated enough. "

The Kinematographische Rundschau called Engelein's wedding "a very excellent comedy in which Asta Nielsen looks lovely and plays with such natural, exuberant amusement that you really think you're looking at a small, cocky girl."

literature

  • Engeleins wedding. In: Ilona Brennicke, Joe Hembus : Classics of the German silent film. 1910–1930 (= Goldmann 10212 Goldmann Magnum. Citadel Filmbücher ). Goldmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-442-10212-X , pp. 181-182.
  • A fidgety backfish: Asta Nielsen's 'film jokes'. In: Claudia Preschl: Laughing bodies. Comedians in the cinema of the 1910s (= Filmmuseum-Synema-Publications. Vol. 8). Synema, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901644-27-6 , pp. 131-150, spec. 141.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Engelein's wedding. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on August 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The cinematograph. 1916. Quoted after Engelein's wedding. In: Ilona Brennicke, Joe Hembus: Classics of the German silent film 1910–1930. 1983, p. 182.
  3. ↑ Cinematographische Rundschau. No. 419, March 19, 1916, p. 50, online in ANNO / Austrian National Library.