Mrs. Gertrud nameless
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| Original title | Mrs. Gertrud nameless |
| Country of production | Austria-Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | approx. 66 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jakob Fleck |
| script | Alfred German-German |
| production |
Anton Kolm Luise Kolm Jakob Fleck for the Viennese art film |
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Frau Gertrud Namenlos is an Austrian silent film from 1914 with the Viennese folk actress Hansi Niese in the title role.
action
Frau Gertrud is a loyal, good-natured housewife in the Schmidt family in Vienna, who is completely absorbed by her loved ones; a paragon of cordiality and a good mood that does not lose courage even in difficult moments. Pictures from her everyday life show her working in the kitchen, accompanying her husband to his office, doing shopping and sometimes arguing with a market woman. But one day the domestic happiness with husband and child threatens to break. Because the unfaithful husband begins an affair with a much younger woman, the seductive variety singer Nelly, a veritable siren.
For Mrs. Gertrud a world is falling to pieces. She wants to fight to keep her happiness at home, but one day she collapses because she believes everything is lost. Gertrud wanders along the Vienna Danube floodplains and finally plunges into the river floods out of desperation. A fisherman sees them and fishes the nameless one out of the Danube. While Gertrud finds in his care to new courage to face life and gradually to old strength and strength, she is at home as missing and finally mourned as dead. The nameless woman begins a new career as a theater actress, her portrayal of Rose Bernd is a great success . Eventually she returns to her modest domesticity, to home and hearth, to husband and child.
Production notes
Frau Gertrud Namenlos was written as a three-act play in the second half of 1913 in Vienna . Filming locations were u. a. the Reichsbrücke, the Resselpark and the Donauauen. The first performance of the approximately 1200 meter long film took place on January 30, 1914 in Vienna.
In the Viennese cinemas the cinematic folk piece was originally announced under the shortened title Frau Gertrud . It was Hansi Niese's second film; She made her cinema debut in the film Johann Strauss on the beautiful blue Danube , which was made almost at the same time .
Reviews
In the Neue Freie Presse it was stated on March 15, 1914: "The well-known Viennese writer Alfred Deutsch-German wrote a film folk piece for the artist, in the center of which he placed a skilfully drawn, genuine female figure. (...) You know the incomparable art that Frau Niese embodies such figures, and in the film, too, the already primitive figure gains warm, pulsating life through her. (...) Frau Niese finds moving expression for the woman who fights for her domestic happiness and finally collapses in despair . "
Web links
- Ms. Gertrud Namenlos at filmportal.de
- Ms. Gertrud nameless in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ms. Gertrud Namenlos at The German Early Cinema Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Mrs. Gertrud nameless". In: Neue Freie Presse , March 15, 1914, p. 26 (online at ANNO ).