Inge Larsen

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Movie
Original title Inge Larsen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1923
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Steinhoff
script Karl Vollmoeller
Hans Steinhoff
production Hanns Lippmann
Henny Porten
music Alexander Schirrmann
(cinema music)
camera Helmar Lerski
occupation

Inge Larsen is a German silent film from 1923 directed by Hans Steinhoff . In the married drama, Henny Porten plays a woman from a humble background who, through marrying a diplomat, gets to know a world that was previously alien to her.

action

Inge Larsen, the daughter of a fisherman, falls in love with Baron Kerr, who is recovering in her parents' house after having problems with a storm at sea. Kerr also takes a liking to the young woman and so after a short time he asks her for her hand. Inge leaves behind her parents and her boyfriend, the fisherman Jan Olsen, when she and Kerr begin a new and completely unfamiliar life. By marrying an influential diplomat, she now belongs to the upper class of society, which also includes the high nobility. Inge has an opponent in the capricious Evelyne, with whom Kerr was in a relationship before his marriage.

After the young couple has had a child, it is more important to Inge to be with her child than to take on social responsibilities. Evelyne can now be seen more and more at Kerr's side. Inge, who is straightforward and honest, has hardly anything to oppose this woman who is crazy about intrigues. Although it is Kerr who cheats on his wife with Evelyne, he accuses Inge of infidelity. He used the occasion that he saw Jan Olsen come out of his house. However, Inge only treated his injuries sustained while visiting a nightclub during a fight he got into. Another dramatic incident leads Inge to return to her parents' house after she and her husband have decided to divorce. Nothing stands in the way of happiness with Jan, who suits her much better.

Production notes, publication

The production company was Henny Porten-Film GmbH (Berlin), production manager Wilhelm von Kaufmann , and the distribution company Hansa-Verleih der UFA . The buildings were created by Fritz Lück , Alfred Junge and Ludwig Kainer , who was also responsible for the costumes. The first outdoor shots were taken on Rügen in the second half of October 1922 . This was followed by further filming in Berlin . At the end of April / beginning of May 1923 further filming took place in Copenhagen because Porten was no longer satisfied with the film. The critic Fritz Olimsky, who noticed at the premiere that the film was not of the usual length, learned when asked that Henny Porten had subsequently removed the scenes from the already completed film or had them severely cut in which she herself cannot be seen . Thus, from an ensemble film, “a clichéd star film with finely worked out secondary episodes” emerged.

The film has a length of five files at 1,932 (according to the Federal Archives 1,832) meters, about 85 minutes. The Berlin police imposed a youth ban on it on September 22, 1923 (No. 7707), and it was premiered on October 16, 1923 in the Berliner Kammer-Lichtspiele.

criticism

For some of the Berlin critics, the film is a vehicle for the star Henny Porten and is “fully geared to appeal to the public”. It is a "bomb role" for them. The other part is of the opinion that it is old-fashioned "as it was half a decade ago" and "as it has always been in your famous films". The work of the production designer and the work of the cameraman, as well as the work of the director, were rated positively across the board. He managed to "give the maudlin story an atmospheric setting" and to have "worked out individual moods very finely". It goes on to say that after a few failures with the embodiment of Inge Larsen as the ideal German woman and mother, Henny Porten is returning to a role that her regular audience expects of her.

Disappointment is expressed in view of the "gazebo novel plot", since Karl Vollmoeller was after all considered a "literary screenwriter", but here he turns out to be a "backward-looking poet and dexterous family novelist". While the weaknesses of the film were blamed on the script and the superiority of Henny Porten, the work of Hans Steinhoff was rated positively. It was said that he “gave the maudlin story an atmospheric setting” and “worked out individual moods very finely”. Steinhoff had shown that “there is a lot of good in him” and that “a lot can still be expected from him”.

Re-performance

The film, which was long thought to be lost, was discovered in the Moscow film archive Gosfilmofond including the censorship card and extensively restored by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin and the University of the West of England Bristol, as well as with partial support from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board . The restored version was shown for the first time on September 11, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Horst Claus: Inge Larsen Das Bundesarchiv, Filmblatt 6 at bundesarchiv.de
  2. ↑ Film length calculator, frame rate: 20
  3. ↑ Message at filmportal.de