Sex in fetters

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Movie
Original title Sex in fetters
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1928
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Wilhelm Dieterle
script Herbert Juttke
Georg C. Klaren
production Leo Meyer
music Pasquale Perris
camera Robert Lach
occupation

Sex in Fetters is a German film drama by Wilhelm Dieterle from 1928. The film also has the subtitle Die Sexualnot der convicts .

action

Economic crisis in Germany. The engineer Franz Sommer is unemployed. When his wife Helene is harassed on the street by a stranger, Franz comes to her aid. In the scuffle, the stranger falls unhappy and dies. Franz has to go to prison. While in custody, he is seduced by a fellow prisoner. His wife Helene is penniless in freedom until another prisoner finds her a job. Helene also succumbs to the man's advances. When Franz was finally released after three years in prison, the couple could not find their way in life again. Both feel guilty and decide to commit suicide.

background

The shooting took place in the summer of 1928. Max Knaake and Fritz Maurischat were responsible for the buildings . The film had its world premiere on October 24, 1928 in the Tauentzienpalast in Berlin . The music composition was arranged and conducted by Pasquale Perris.

censorship

The Berlin Film Inspectorate approved the film in 1928 with limited editing requirements, but imposed a youth ban. At the request of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, the film inspectorate again dealt with the film and, by decision of January 16, 1930, had a further 70 meters (2-3%) of the film cut out with sexually offensive scenes. However, the supervisory authority did not share the accusation that the film shook trust in the judiciary, the code of criminal procedure and the penal system as a whole. In March 1933, the film was completely banned at the request of the Bavarian NSDAP regional film office and the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.

Awards

  • Rating : artistically valuable

Reviews

  • Reichsfilmblatt dated October 27, 1928: "A passionate trend film - but with a tendency that we can all agree with: It is a film that fights for liberality and human dignity, against obscurity and intolerance."

literature

  • Christoph Prochnow: sex in fetters. In Günther Dahlke, Günter Karl (ed.): German feature films from the beginning to 1933. A film guide. 2nd Edition. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89487-009-5 , p. 172 f.
  • Herbert Birett : Silent Film Music. A collection of materials. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Birett: Silent film music. 1970, p. 140 on B 20 390 - IX 321.
  2. ↑ DIF archive
  3. ^ Wilhelm (William) Dieterle - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexikon zum Deutschsprachigen Film , Lg. 22, F 9
  4. ↑ ZDB -ID 984805-8 .