Harry Raupach
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| Original title | Harry Raupach |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 32 minutes |
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| Director | NN |
| production | Oskar Messter |
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Harry Raupach is an early 1912 German silent film drama with Harry Liedtke in the title role.
action
first act
The poet Harry Raupach is happily married and has one child. Tonight he is invited to a literary soirée, to which the well-known actress Alice Leonhard was announced as a guest star. A friend Harry who is also present introduces the two of them. Both get on very well during the course of the evening, and Harry tells Alice about the stage work he has just completed. Interested in the young poet, Alice Leonhard is ready to ask her theater director to have Raupach's play performed soon. There is a huge crackling between Harry and Alice, and therefore Raupach does not tell her that he is married and has a child. Alice keeps her promise and, for the sake of his tall mime, the theater director enables the Raupach play to premier quickly. During rehearsals, Harry and Alice get closer and closer to each other. On the other hand, Harry reacts more and more irritably to his wife who takes care of the child at home, especially since she asks him to be allowed to attend the premiere. But Harry would like to spend the subsequent celebration with Alice everyone.
The housekeeper is concerned about the tears of her employer and gets two tickets for the play, although Harry was strictly against it. Sitting in the middle of the audience, Ms. Raupach is now watching the piece that will be a great success. Alice Leonhard gets several curtains and lots of applause. Harry's wife is waiting for her husband at the artist exit, who, however, strolls arm in arm with Mrs. Leonhard to a car waiting for the two. Both plan to celebrate their mutual success in their domicile. However, he does not see his wife, who is almost right next door. Frau Raupach returns home, deeply bent, to wait for her husband there. When he finally returns home late at night, she demands an explanation from him. Harry thinks he owes Freu Leonhard to be grateful, after all, it was she who made the performance possible. However, he says this with such a succinct undertone that his wife doesn't believe a single word. Rather, she accuses him of having an affair with the actress. Harry then leaves the house and decides to leave his wife and child and dedicate himself to his work and his lover, who would understand him as an artist and better. Harry's wife no longer wants to live here either, takes her child and returns to her parents.
Second act
Years have passed since then and the couple separated by mutual agreement. Meanwhile, Alice's demanding and passionate nature has pulled hard on Harry's nerves. The egocentric artist appropriates him completely for herself, as a result of which Harry's poetic creativity suffers greatly. When he had dinner with Alice one evening and saw his ex-wife with both of their now matured children, he was overcome with longing for his previous life and especially for his offspring. Alice sees the danger of losing Harry and thinks about a countermeasure. While Harry longingly watches his child from a distance while walking to the house of his ex-wife and the child, he does not notice that Alice has secretly followed him.
In order to bind Harry to herself forever, the unscrupulous diva decides to kidnap Harry's child and bring it to her lover. After Harry trudged home again and the nanny who was looking after the child nodded in the garden, Alice sneaks up to the little one and asks her if she would like to go for a walk with the "aunt". The two drive on with a car waiting for them. Driven by an inexplicable restlessness, Harry returns once more and sees his ex-wife in great excitement: the child is gone! Since Alice was seen kidnapping her children, she is immediately pursued in a car. There is a huge “puff” and a cloud of steam hisses from the hood of Alice's vehicle, whose engine the car chase was too much for. Harry and his wife have caught up with the accident vehicle and storm out of their car. Alice did not survive the accident; Harry and his wife tear their child out of the car and drive home together.
Production notes
Harry Raupach is one of the completely forgotten early works of the then 30-year-old screen idol Harry Liedtke. The film was made at the end of 1912 in the Messter Film Atelier in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, censored in January 1913 and presumably had its world premiere on March 26, 1913 in the New Film Exchange in Vienna. The mass start was scheduled for April 18 of the same year. Harry Raupach was two files long and six hundred and fifty feet. It is currently unknown who directed it.