Homunculi
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Homunculi |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Schmelter |
| script | Franz Schmelter |
| production | Christoph Mülleneisen senior |
| occupation | |
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Homunculus is a German film parody in two acts from 1916. The film, as well as its sequel Homunculus Becomes Filmdiva from the same year, is a parody of the film series Homunculus, which appeared in the same year .
action
The doctor Garlande Klagenfurt wants to create an artificial person who is intelligent but can also have emotions. As a lecturer, she devotes herself with particular enthusiasm to the lectures on homunculus , which are always particularly well attended. In one of her lectures she reveals to the students present that based on her successful research, an artificial human will be born in 14 hours. Your Famula Euphemia will be explained the machine that hatches the homunculus egg. Euphemia, however, is curious and wants to take a closer look at the homunculus egg. It falls to the ground and breaks. In her need, she goes to her cousin, the fruit dealer Knötschke, whose wife has just given birth to twins. Since the two already have eight other children, her uncle gives her one of the two children, the newborn Lieschen. Euphemia finally introduces Lieschen as the newborn homunculus. Garland Klagenfurt triumphs.
Only 16 years later does it all come to light. Lieschen has suffered from her life in the past, fell in love with the young Karl and tried to escape from her captivity near Garlande Klagenfurt. Fruit dealer Knötschke, who has gotten rich and has never forgotten the Lieschen that was given away, appears at Euphemia and is able to uncover Lieschen's true identity. Now nothing stands in the way of Lieschen and Karl getting married.
background
The film is around 840 meters long. The production company was the company of Christoph Mülleneisen Berlin-Charlottenburg / Cologne. The Berlin police banned him in October 1916 with a youth ban (No. 39902).
The first performance took place on November 3rd, 1916 in the Tauentzienpalast .
literature
- Homunculi . In: Die Filmwoche , No. 185, 1916 ( beforecaligari.org ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homunculieschen becomes a film diva at The German Early Cinema Database
- ↑ Thomas Elsaesser (Ed.): A Second Life. German Cinema's First Decades . Amsterdam University Press ( full text in Google Book Search).