It was a dream
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| Original title | It was a dream |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 58 minutes |
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| Director | NN |
| script | Walter Turszinsky |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
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It was a dream is a German silent film melodrama from 1915 with Erna Morena in the leading role.
action
One day in a small village a grease theater troupe returns and takes up residence in the inn. When the crowd there gave a performance, the beautiful landlady was among the audience, hanging on the lips of a young comedian from a wealthy family who had been rejected by the father of the manufacturer. The young woman is enthusiastic about the theater and begs the stage director to take her with him on the onward journey. She soon showed great talent and received an offer from an acting agent to fulfill an obligation at the court theater. She agrees, but only on the condition that her young colleague, with whom the young woman has fallen in love, is also committed. But in the eyes of the agent the young man has too little talent, and so the landlord's daughter refuses to sign.
Meanwhile, the uncle of the presumably talentless person speaks properly to his conscience. Because his father has died and the mother asks her son to return home, since the son should now take over the father's business. The tempting prospect of being able to live a life of prosperity and security from now on are stronger than the desire for high performance, well-groomed recitation and the pretty little landlady, and so the young man returns home to his mother. He writes his lover a farewell letter and adds a larger banknote as a “farewell present”. Now there is no longer any reason for her to turn down the theater agent's offer, and she soon has a great career as a stage tragedian.
Her old director from blissful smear theater times comes over to her one day and asks the now celebrated Mimin to give a guest performance at the theater, where he now draws his bread of grace on his old days. She agrees, and as luck would have it, her great love of yore lives in this city, who has renounced high art and his great love for the sake of the stupid Mammon. The ex-actor lives in an unhappy marriage, so it is hardly surprising that both hearts soon rekindle for each other. However, she is disappointed to find that he is married (albeit unhappily) and that her former love has only given her, the famous actress, the place of a lover. She slaps him on the face for betraying her feelings. She returns to the theater director's house disappointed, and her lips escape the words of disappointment and bitterness: "It was just a dream".
Production notes
It was a dream was filmed in the Messter-Film-Atelier in Berlin's Blücherstrasse 32 in mid-1915. The three-act act was banned from young people and premiered in Berlin's Mozart Hall in September. The length was 1070 meters.
criticism
“The film, which once again lives up to the excellent brand it carries in terms of equipment, photography and direction, is characterized on the one hand by the very peculiar, lifelike and captivating play of the main actress Erna Morena, on the other hand by a deeply gripping, well well thought-out and logically structured plot that goes far beyond the lines of true cinematic drama. To see Erna Morena in the final scene is an artistic delight in itself. It is the outcry of a tormented, disappointed woman who seeks the last consolation in resignation. "