Eva's Daughters (1928)

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Movie
Original title Eve's daughters
Country of production Germany , Czechoslovakia
original language German
Czech
Publishing year 1928
Rod
Director Karel Lamač
script Helmuth Ortmann based
on the novel of the same name (1912) by Johannes Jegerlehner
production Henry Sokal
Bratři Deglové
Arthur Porchet ( anonymous )
music Otto Stenzeel
camera Otto Heller
cut Hanns Gödert
occupation

Evas Töchter is a film love game from 1928, at the same time an extremely rare example of a German-Czech-Swiss co-production. Anny Ondra plays the leading role, directed by Karel Lamač .

action

Nina Laval is a talented and attractive dancer who is admired and coveted by numerous men. On behalf of Baroness Edith von Steffen, Baron von Bihl, a proven womanizer and Casanova, went to Edith's husband Hans to keep him away from a visit to the vaudeville, where Nina swings her legs. Meanwhile, Nina has fallen in love with the young Swiss painter Rudolf Bünzli, who is currently in the process of making a portrait of the dancer. Hans also takes part in these meetings, always in the hope of warming Nina to himself so that the young lady can be his lover. For this reason alone he does not want to return to home and wife. Now the baroness takes refined weapons, namely money. On her behalf, Bihl quickly offered the model and her portraitist a longer trip to the Swiss Alps, true to the motto: out of sight, out of mind. But Baroness Edith's free-footed Hans is so easy to shake off ...

After the local newspapers published some piquant photos of Nina and her painter, the jealous baron immediately followed them and persuaded the dancer to come home with him. Before that, Nina had released her Rudolf with a heavy heart, because he had been promised to a simple fisher girl long before. But Rudolf is not at all ready to just let Eva's daughter Nina go and jealously pursues her through the vintner festival that takes place in Vevey . After all, he even threatens the smart Baron Bihl with a revolver. A shot is fired, which obviously hits Nina, because she collapses. Only now do all those involved come to their senses and gather at Nina's “death bed”. Suddenly she is perky because Nina has only faked her gunshot wound skillfully. Hans finally returns ruefully to his Edith, while Bünzli makes up with his fisherman's daughter. Now only the cunning and wealthy Baron Bihl is available - an ideal role for Nina, who is suddenly solo.

Production notes

The shooting of Eva's daughters began in August 1927 with outdoor shots (in Switzerland: Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux, Geneva, Meillerie, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Zermatt, Matterhorn, Gornergrat, Savoyen) and was followed by the studio sequences (Berlin and Prague) continued in December of the same year and ended in January 1928. The six-character had a length of 2,458 meters and was banned by the German censors. The first performance took place on April 4, 1928 in the Ufa-Theater on Kurfürstendamm. The Czech premiere took place two days later in Prague.

Victor Trivas designed the buildings .

assessment

In Hervé Dumont's The History of Swiss Films , it says: “The flick is briefly released under the new title Evas Töchter and experiences something like a lightning career in Czechoslovakia, Germany and Switzerland (1929). It is just a pretext to show the crackling and exuberant Anny in a dozen different costumes and to let her parading around the times of other beauties of that time. Countless views of Swiss landscapes are still reminiscent of the vicissitudes of this production, otherwise Eva's daughters is just one of 60 titles from the joint filmography of Anny Ondra and her partner director Lamač between 1920 and 1937. "

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bratři Deglové, German brothers Degl was a joint company of Karel Degl and Emanuel Degl; see Bratři Deglové sro , Národní filmový archiv, Prague, online at: nfa.cz/

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film. Feature films 1896–1965. Swiss Film Archive, Lausanne 1987, ISBN 2-88267-001-X , p. 106.

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