Fake pearls
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Fake pearls |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 26 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | NN |
| production | Oskar Messter |
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False Perlen is a short German silent film fun play from 1913.
action
At the center of this classic love triangle are an extremely thrifty husband, his wife and his best friend, who will soon become that of the woman as well, as well as two pearl necklaces - one real and one fake: Lissi Klein would have liked to have received a pearl necklace from her husband, but one with her real pearls of course. Her husband, a notorious savings fox, buys her a cheap imitation for three marks. But since Fritz Weber, the family friend, does not want to see Lissi given such cheap presents, he has an idea. He does what the husband of the gods should have done: he buys her a real pearl necklace and exchanges it for the wrong one.
But now family friend Fritz has clearly taken over by buying pearls and even had to borrow the money needed for it. When he is supposed to repay it, he cannot. Meanwhile, the husband has had the value of the necklace he believes is the one he has bought. The high value of the allegedly false pearls causes great unrest over him. Is this really his chain? Does his wife have a lover? Lissi Klein is also a little worried when she learns the value of the gift, but her husband has to remain silent, otherwise he would have to admit that he wanted to fob off his wife with a 3-mark trinket.
Fritz Weber intervenes and kills two birds with one stone: in an unnoticed moment, he puts the false 3-mark pearl necklace around Lissi, which she believes is valuable, and takes the valuable piece back to herself with it to be able to pay the debts incurred as a result. Of course, Lissi doesn't notice anything and still thinks she's wearing the precious necklace. Her husband, in turn, runs to the jeweler with the jewelry that is now wrong again and gets to hear what he wants to hear in black and white: the pearls are wrong, ergo the wife is loyal. He is satisfied with that too. And friend Fritz is debt-free again.
Production notes
False Pearls passed film censorship in July 1913 and premiered on October 24, 1913. The film had two acts and was 485 meters long.
criticism
"Miss Perry, and Messrs. Berger [sic!] And Sarnow play this comedy with a lot of humor and temperament, creating some entertaining scenes of grace and piquancy."