Heide-Gretel
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Heide-Gretel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | approx. 62 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Otto Rippert |
| script | Carl Schneider |
| production | Erich Pommer |
| camera | Carl Hoffmann |
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Heide-Gretel is a German silent film melodrama from 1918 by Otto Rippert with Hella Moja in the leading role.
action
Heide-Gretel had a difficult life in the tavern “Zum Mooskrug”. The landlord beats them for every little mistake. When the innkeeper tries to hit her again because she accidentally dropped glasses, two men stand protectively in front of her: Konrad and the ballet master Pankratius. Heide-Gretel no longer likes to stay in this place and runs out into the snow-covered forest where she begins to cry bitterly. With tiredness and despair, the exhausted girl falls into a deep sleep despite the cold. Then she begins to dream.
In this dream, Konrad and Pankratius are at her side. She is taken to the ballet master's house, where the prince's chamberlain has just arrived to discuss the upcoming ballet production. When Gretel begins to sing, the chamberlain is delighted and leads her to the prince's palace. In her dream, the prince suddenly falls in love with Gretel and wants to make her his wife, but she only asks him to take her protector Konrad into his court. Out of love for her, the Prince complies with Gretel's request.
When Konrad is at court, the prince surprises his future wife in his arms on the morning of the wedding, of all places. The prince has the rival thrown into a dungeon, but he is soon released from there at Gretel's request. Then she murders the prince in her dream, whereupon she is arrested. To avoid the executioner, Konrad brings her poison so that she can die by her own hand. Konrad goes to death with her. Gretel no longer wakes up from this nightmare; they are found frozen in the snow the next morning.
Production notes
Heide-Gretel was submitted to censorship in February 1918 and premiered that same month in the Berlin Marble House . The length of the four-act vehicle was 1277 meters.
criticism
“After Hella Moja had delighted us with her humorous play in“ The Good Part ”, we now got to see her as a tragedy, and truly, she also knows how to interpret this art inimitably. (...) Your partners play superbly, the nature shots are magnificent, the staging is excellent. "
Web links
- Heide-Gretel at The German Early Cinema Database
- Heide-Gretel at filmportal.de
- Heide-Gretel in the Internet Movie Database (English)