Eternal electricity
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Eternal electricity |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | approx. 96 minutes |
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| Director | Johannes Guter |
| script |
Hans Janow based on an idea by Alfred Fekete |
| production | Richard Oswald |
| music | Centaur movie |
| camera | Hans Bloch |
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Ewiger Strom is a German silent film made in 1919 in the form of a mystical drama. Directed by John Good play Werner Krauss and Good Wife Marija Leiko the leading roles.
action
A one-eyed ferryman finds a baby abandoned by his mother in his boat. The boat sways and the toddler goes overboard. Although it falls into the river, the ferryman does not feel compelled to save it. But little Marija does not die, because the river god has an understanding, saves her and raises Marija in his underwater world. After twenty years, the young woman who had matured into a young woman, hungry for life above water, reappears from the floods. It comes to the surface at the very point where the ferryman once let it slip away. But this time the one-eyed man pulls her out of the river. Since that event 20 years ago, his guilty conscience has plagued him badly, and from now on Marija makes the ferryman's life hell. Eventually she leaves him to enjoy life to the fullest elsewhere.
Marija's first lover is the engineer Jan Brunn, but he soon separates from her. Then there is another encounter between Marijas and the ferryman. In the event of a severe thunderstorm, he should put them across the river. But this time he falls overboard and sinks into the water, apparently drowned. It is the same place where Marija once went down as a baby. But this time, too, the river god seems to have intervened, because from now on the ferryman appears in various forms in Marija's life. His apparitions are like a demonic curse, because from now on Marija only brings harm to all those men who cross her life. When she sees Jan Brunn again, who is now ready to give her his love. Marija takes her life so as not to let him fall into the ruin of the one-eyed man.
Production notes
Ewiger Strom , subtitle: “The Resurrection of a Heart”, was created in 1919 and was premiered on April 9, 1920 in Berlin's Marble House . The film censorship took place later, on July 22nd, 1920. The six-acter with a length of 1987 or 1992 meters was banned from young people.
The film structures were designed by Robert Neppach , with Hanns Kobe in charge of artistic direction .