Banned and Redeemed (1919)
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| Original title | Banned and redeemed |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | about 100 minutes |
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| Director | Georg Bluen |
| script | Fern Andra |
| production | Georg Bluen, Fern Andra |
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Banned and Redeemed is a German silent film melodrama by and with Fern Andra in a double role.
action
Young Fern went to the mountains with her mother to do some winter sports there. There she made the acquaintance of the alert William Mertens, an elegant sportsman. Both agree to go on a night sports excursion, but are ultimately forced to seek accommodation in a ski hut. It comes as it has to: both young people fall in love. But William seems to have a dark past and is arrested a little later by the police for the murder of another woman. The nocturne tryst nine months later had consequences for Fern, she became a mother and had the child in the country. Soon after, she returns to town and leaves her baby to the farmers to raise.
Her daughter, also Fern, has matured into a young woman after 18 years. One day she met Ernst, the farmer's son, who had been raised by a monk from a young age and trained in painting. After hearing that Fern Jr. grew up with his parents, he assumes that it must be his later-born little sister. What a shame, he thinks, because of course he immediately fell in love with her. Little Fern is so disappointed that she looks for a silent film-like way out: she wants to kill herself. But Ernst saves her at the last moment, and Fern learns the true background of her origins from her mother. Both young people try to find their happiness together somewhere in a foreign country in the face of such great ancestral misery.
Production notes
Banned and redeemed was created in the Fern Andra studio in Berlin at Chausseestrasse 42. The length of the six-act film was 2053 meters. The premiere took place during the censorship-free period in June 1919 in the Berlin marble house . After the re-established film censorship, Banned and Redeemed was presented on May 13, 1921 with a youth ban.
criticism
“… A new Fern-Andra hit in six acts, banned and redeemed, which has the story of a lost human soul as its subject matter. Fern Andra, as the author and leading actress, naturally takes up the broad space in which the ensemble moves alongside the characters. The use of splendid glacier and firnen areas give the film a beautiful visual effect. A mental painting that is shown by Fern Andra in a cinematic way and will surely find great applause from the audience, all the more so as the technical execution is also successful. "