Renunciations
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Renunciations |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Heinrich Lautensack |
| production | Continental art film, Berlin |
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Austerities is a German silent film -Melodram in 1913 by Joe May .
action
Professor Dr. Wegscheid is a very busy man. Although his colleague, an eye specialist, urgently advised him to take it easy and protect his eyes, Wegscheid did not listen to him. Now he is gradually in danger of going blind, because he would rather renounce his eyesight than his professional obligations. Wegscheid's life seems to be at a turning point at which the otherwise independent physician will have to rely on the help of others. This shows the gratitude of the young artist Lisa Garham, whose life he once saved and who now wants to sacrifice herself in gratitude to be there for him.
Lisa, who gives up her artistic career for her patient, is a great support to the much older man, and one day Prof. Wegscheid asks her if she would like to marry him. Although she doesn't love him but his nephew, Lisa doesn't dare to disappoint the professor and agrees. This further renunciation, namely to her happiness in life, and the request addressed to the nephew to renounce her again, is followed by the last and final renunciation: that of Professor Wegscheid. He overheard Lisa's conversation with his nephew and learned that she doesn't love him, but actually her relative, Wegscheid's, who is almost the same age. With the words “The blind man only stands in the way of the world”, the professor gives Lisa free and in the final act even renounces his life.
Production notes
Renunciations came about in the spring of 1913 and was censored for films in April of the same year. A youth ban has been issued. The first performance of the four-act act with a length of 1245 (new censorship November 1922) meters took place in July 1913.
criticism
“The drama from the learned room is a great work of art. Actually great, technically flawless, it moves scenically at a height that can withstand any comparison. (…) The drama is viewed psychologically with a sharpness that is unique. The line in which the tragedy moves is so straight and true to life that it moves and deeply captivates. The moment of blindness is gripping, the professor's death scene full of feeling. The recordings in the sanatorium, in the asylum for the blind and of the blind man's walks are nice. The film is extremely exciting. "
Web links
- Renunciations at The German Early Cinema Database
- Renunciations at filmportal.de
- Austerities in the Internet Movie Database (English)