Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders
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| Original title | Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 51 minutes |
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| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script | Georg Jacoby |
| production | Bufa , Berlin |
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Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders is a German silent film drama from 1917 by Georg Jacoby with wartime propagandistic echoes.
action
First World War , Western Front. After the German invasion of Belgium , the Belgian miller Jan Vermeulen was drafted into his country's army and wounded in a battle against the enemy. He was admitted and given medical care in a German hospital. Recovered, he was taken to an estate as a temporary worker for a German miller. A decision maker is also employed on this estate , whose brother Johan Freihardt was sent to Flanders as a teacher to work as a teacher there.
Jan Vermeulen's son, Pieter, is among Freihardt's students. When the boy is seriously injured one day as a result of an accident, it is the German doctor Genesius who saves his life and nurses him back to health. In the end, teacher Freihardt even managed to get Jan Vermeulen 14 days off his labor on the German estate and to visit his son in his native Flanders. He is overjoyed to find that Pieter's health has been completely restored thanks to the medical help of the German doctor.
Production notes
Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders is an early commission from the Bufa (Image and Film Office) founded in January 1917 . The three-act act was 1,057 meters long, had 69 subtitles and passed film censorship in July 1917. The world premiere took place on August 3, 1917.
The film was an attempt to present the German invaders of Kaiser Wilhelm in Belgium as kind-hearted and helpful people who stand by the civilian population with advice and action.
criticism
"This atmospheric film is also very well received."
Web links
- Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders at The German Early Cinema Database
- Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders at filmportal.de
- January Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders in the Internet Movie Database (English)