Hot Blood (1911)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hot blood |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1911 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urban Gad |
| script | Urban Gad |
| production | German bioscop |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
| occupation | |
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Hot Blood is a German silent film in two acts by Urban Gad from 1911. It was the first film that Asta Nielsen made in Germany. He is considered lost .
action
The married Jonna, mother of one daughter, starts an affair with her chauffeur . When her husband catches both of them, he shows the chauffeur out of the house and files for divorce from his wife. A life of poverty begins for Joanna. When she tries to steal from her ex-husband in her distress, she is surprised. You call the police. However, Jonna's child, who is ill, recognizes the mother and calls for her. Jonna recognizes her motherly duties and her wrongdoing. Her ex-husband forgives her and they both get together again.
production
In 1910, Asta Nielsen had made her first film with abysses, directed by Urban Gad . The Danish silent film was a worldwide success, but there were no film offers in Denmark for either Nielsen or Gad. Through an acquaintance, Gad got in touch with Deutsche Bioscop , who offered Nielsen a contract for two films. Gad's participation was not included in the contract, but he nevertheless accompanied Nielsen to Berlin . He eventually took on the direction of Hot Blood and the following film, Moth without pay. Only for the script that he had written for both films, he received "later a small payment".
The shooting took place in the Bioscop-Atelier Chausseestrasse in Berlin, "a few poor floor spaces". The studio had glass walls and, in contrast to the filming of Afgrunden , where only sunlight was used, it could be artificially illuminated with electric light.
Hot Blood , which was 830 meters long, premiered in Düsseldorf at the end of March and was also shown in Danish cinemas on April 17, 1911. The German censorship banned Hot Blood , which also ran under the title Großstadtversuchungen , on May 18, 1911. No surviving copy of the film is known.
criticism
Contemporary advertisements described the film as “as highly artistic as it is attractive”, with the leading actress Asta Nielsen being introduced as “the heroine of 'Abysses'”.
Other critics wrote that “so much has been written about that dramatic films are out of place for photography. 'Hot blood' proves the opposite, especially when an artist like Asta Nielsen is the bearer of the main role. "
Web links
- Hot blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- City trials at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Asta Nielsen: My way to film. 2. My first film . In: BZ am Mittag , September 24, 1928.
- ↑ Asta Nielsen: The silent muse: [Memoirs of life] . Ed .: Allan Hagedorff, Herbert Georg Kemlein, Renate Seydel. 1st edition. Henschel, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-362-00596-9 , pp. 118 .
- ↑ Renate Seydel , Allan Hagedorff (ed.): Asta Nielsen. Your life in photo documents, self-testimonies and contemporary reflections. Henschel, Berlin 1981, p. 42.
- ↑ Big city experiments . In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on August 6, 2018 .
- ↑ See advertisement for hot blood in: Der Kinematograph , March 29, 1911, ZDB -ID 575137-8 .
- ^ German photo theater owner , March 30, 1911, quoted from Renate and Allan Hagedorff Seydel: Asta Nielsen. Your life in photo documents, self-testimonies and contemporary reflections . Designed by Bernd Meier. Universitas Verlag, January 1, 1981, p. 43 .