Factory Marianne
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| Original title | Factory Marianne |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | 104 minutes |
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| Director | Waldemar Hecker |
| production | Continental art film (Berlin) |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
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Fabrik-Marianne is a German silent film melodrama from 1913 with Sabine Impekoven in the title role.
action
The young Marianne is a real sunshine and works day in and day out in a factory. She is popular with everyone for her cheerfulness, naturalness and friendliness. One day the “dark” truth comes out: Marianne is not at all the real proletarian child that everyone thought she was! When she is being chosen to be the ringleader in a strike against the factory owner Brandes, it turns out that she is in fact the illegitimate daughter of the owner Brandes (which she did not know herself before). Brandes had once impregnated a young woman named Paula who came from a simple worker background. The pressure to marry according to his social status led Brandes to turn away from Paula and move her away with her child, Marianne. Paula later passed Marianne on to her relatives and soon afterwards killed herself.
Now, twenty years later, daughter and father face each other as opponents in a labor dispute. The girl immediately gets into a violent conflict between a proletarian sense of duty and emotional inclination towards the new father, especially since she previously injured him by throwing a stone. The aged Brandes has been emotionally hardened since his entire family was killed in a car accident. Marianne navigates between the fronts. When she hears that her strike buddies are about to storm Brandes' house, she warns her father. He immediately alerts the military. However, some workers can enter the building. With pistol in hand, Marianne's fiancé, also among the strikers, sees father and daughter in each other's arms. He misinterprets this situation and takes Marianne to be the mistress of the old fire. A shot is fired and Marianne dies. This also means the end of the strike.
Production notes
Fabrik-Marianne was filmed in the Continental Film Atelier in Berlin's Chausseestrasse 123 in mid-1913 and passed film censorship in August or September 1913. The premiere probably took place in the same year. In 1914 the strip was also shown under the title Marianne . The film had five acts over 1,900 meters in length. A youth ban was issued.
For Max Faßbender this was one of his first jobs as chief cameraman for feature films.
criticism
"A real and genuine folk drama with a content that contains shocking dramatic moments in its simple plot ... (...) The main role is played by Sabine Impekoven with such amiable drama in the humorous processes, with such a ravishingly dramatic animation in the tragic moments that she is worthy of the first row among famous film actresses. The film is a masterpiece of its kind ... "