Gendarme Möbius
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Gendarme Möbius |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 58 (German version 1914), 38 (today's fragmentary version) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stellan Rye |
| script | Stellan Rye based on a novella by Victor Blüthgen |
| production | German bioscop |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann |
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Gendarme Möbius is a German silent film melodrama directed by Stellan Rye from 1913.
action
Police colonel Möbius is a righteous man who honestly does his job. Only his daughter Stina worries him a lot. She got involved with a greyhound named Franz Lohmann, and now she is pregnant by him. In order to spare her father the social disgrace, Stina goes to the next town to give birth to her baby. But it will be a stillbirth. Then she returns home.
In the meantime, her lover Lohmann has looked elsewhere and is already engaged. Lohmann's wedding is supposed to take place the next evening. Beside herself with anger in the face of this unfaithfulness, Stina sets Franz Lohmann's house on fire on her wedding night. During this arson she is caught by her own father on duty and handed over to the district court by him. In order to restore the family honor, the gendarme Möbius finally commits suicide by falling into the deep burial ground.
Production notes
Gendarme Möbius , Stellan Rye's rare foray into social melodrama, was created in late summer / early autumn 1913 in the Bioscop studio in Neubabelsberg . The three-act film with a length of 1066 meters passed the film censorship on October 15, 1913 and was shown for the first time in Germany in May or June 1914. However, a performance from November 1913, which took place in the Odeon Theater in Yokohama , Japan, is already documented . In Austria-Hungary, the film was even viewed as early as September 1913, as a film review from that month (see below) shows.
The buildings were created by Robert A. Dietrich .
Besides The Student from Prague , this film is the only Rye production that is not considered lost. Because of the topic of honor and honor, the film found a very interested audience in Japan. The Japanese film critic Seiji Ogawa stated in a review of April 1914 in the journal Kinema Record that the behavior of the sincere and loyal titular hero Möbius at the center of the action was very similar to the Japanese code of honor Bushido .
criticism
“This story of true German conscientiousness was very cleverly filmed by the Bioscop and no less than Lucie Höflich was the godfather. It remains a masterpiece that this outstanding Reinhardt student brought to the film. With splendid simplicity, she intensifies the mental struggle of a girl abandoned by her lover to the climax of the mental insanity that makes her an arsonist. The character drawing of the gendarme who puts duty above everything in life is wonderful. (...) The drama is interesting from the beginning to the end and keeps the audience in breathless tension. The images of the village fire and the scenes that make up the girl's soul struggle, but also the main moments of father Möbius, have a tremendous effect. "
Web links
- Gendarme Möbius at filmportal.de
- Gendarme Möbius at The German Early Cinema Database
- Gendarme Möbius in the Internet Movie Database (English)