Life is serious
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Life is serious |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fern Andra |
| script | Fern Andra |
| production | Fern Andra Georg Bluen |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| occupation | |
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Life is Serious is a German silent film drama from 1916 by and with Fern Andra .
action
Fany, the daughter of a florist, is engaged to Fritz, who works for an engineering office. About the doctor Dr. Thielen, she met a ballet master who discovered her talent for dancing and trained Fany. She quickly made a career as a ballerina and rose to become a solo dancer in the theater. When a fire breaks out during a performance one evening, it is the young sculptor Holger who saves her life. Soon the two of them get closer than their fiancé would like.
Holger wants Fany to be his model, but as expected, Fritz has something against it. It happens as it has to: The engagement to Fritz is dissolved and Fany marries Holger. However, after a brief period of happiness, this marriage is under a bad star. You become estranged and Holger cheats, while Fany suffers quietly. One evening she caught her husband red-handed in a private room with another woman. Still, Fany tries to save her marriage, but her husband rejects all her efforts. Fany dies of a broken heart.
Production notes
Life is Serious was the first film that Fern Andra had made in her own roof studio, which was built in July 1916 at Chausseestrasse 42 in Berlin. The five-act film was 1,453 meters long (when it was re-censored in 1921), around 71 minutes, and was premiered on October 27, 1916 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . For the youth was Ernst, life is not allowed. In Austria-Hungary, where it was around 1,750 meters long, the film was first shown in Vienna on September 1, 1916.
For the 21-year-old cameraman Willy Winterstein , this was one of his first works.
classification
Life is serious can be seen as a typical Andra product of the war years. During this time, especially from 1915 to 1918, she celebrated her greatest audience success with her melodramatic productions.
Kay Less writes about this: “Andra's cinematic touching pieces, which were preferably set in the world of the nobility or in the circus milieu, found a grateful audience during World War I and carried such poignant titles as' Seriously life ',' It occurred to me Ripe in the spring night 'and' The strings of the soul do not vibrate '. "
The following can be read in CineGraph : “Typical of her films are touching pieces that play among nobles, artists or circus performers and in which she always introduces the whole range of touching femininity, e.g. in ERNST IS LIFE as a flower girl, ballet dancer, model and artist wife who rushes from feeling to feeling and has to endure love, happiness, jealousy and agony in ever new poses, costumes and hairstyles. "
In Paimann's film lists you can read: "Material is very good, scenery, photos and especially the game is great."
Web links
- Ernst life is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Life at filmportal.de is serious
- Life at The German Early Cinema Database is serious
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fern Andra-Atelier in cinegraph.de
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 18
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 106.
- ↑ CineGraph, Fern Andra, Delivery 8, B 1, editorial deadline April 1, 1987
- ↑ Life is serious ( memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Paimann's film lists
