Homesickness (1927)

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Movie
Original title Homesickness
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Gennaro Righelli
script Max Glass
production Max Glass
music Walter Ulfig
camera Arpad Viragh
occupation

Heimweh is a German silent film drama from 1927 by Gennaro Righelli with Mady Christians and Wilhelm Dieterle .

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Prince Nikolaj Trubezkoj was surprised by the Russian Revolution on his estate in 1917 . With the help of his steward Ivan, he and his daughter Lydia escape from the plundering and marauding Bolshevik hordes. They manage to get to Paris. While Iwan finds a servant position, the two noble father and daughter can initially keep themselves afloat by selling the family jewelry. Since one has to stick together in a foreign country, all the other exiled Russians in the pension, in which the Princes Trubetskoj also stayed, have put their trust in Prince Oginsky and give him their treasures so that he can sell them at a profit. Oginsky, however, soon turns out to be a swindler, who on top of that tries, en passant, to pair Princess Lydia with the half-silk Frenchman Guillot. But since the former steward Iwan adores and loves Lydia, he can prevent this marriage in time.

In the meantime, Oginsky has run away with the jewels he has been given, whereupon all the boarding aristocrats are suddenly impoverished. The old prince, Lydia's father, dies over this grief. Lydia now threatens to finally fall into the hands of the unscrupulous bon vivant Guillot, but this time too Iwan saves her from the worst. Soon Lydia is eaten away by homesickness for Mother Russia, and Iwan, who in the meantime had met a girl in Paris, returns with his former mistress to the Bolshevik workers and peasants paradise. During their first overnight stay, the two almost become the victims of a suspicious Soviet man, but the landlady claims that she knows this "couple". Lydia, who knows what she owes Iwan, now begins to fall in love with him and soon really considers herself his wife. Together with him she wants to build a new life in the old homeland that has become strange to her.

Production notes

Homesickness arose in the Terra Glass House and passed the film censorship on October 15, 1927. The film was 2,692 meters long, divided into seven acts. A youth ban was issued. The premiere took place on October 21, 1927 in Berlin's Beba-Palast (atrium).

Hans Jacoby created the film structures.

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