King engine
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | King engine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 76 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script | Heinz Karl Heiland |
| production | Paul Davidson for PAGU |
| occupation | |
König Motor is a German sensational silent film from 1915 by Georg Jacoby .
action
An engineer has constructed a sensational engine of tremendous power, which is of particular interest for shipping. A significant shipyard acquires the technical innovation and wants to install it in their newest ship. But there are envious people, and so a competitor and his daughter try to damage or even destroy the competition's engine shortly before launch. The villain sneaks into the shipyard and goes to the crane controlled by his daughter to begin his work of destruction. Both of them are caught by the engineer's sister, who then climbs onto the crane herself and fights a duel with the villain's daughter at lofty heights. The saboteur falls into the depths, and the devious attack can be thwarted at the last moment.
Production notes
König Motor was created in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof and, with the permission of the German Admiralty, at the Bremen shipyards . The four-act act passed film censorship in August 1915 and was banned from young people. The film was first presented at the Vienna Film Show on September 6, 1915. Its length was around 1400 meters. The mass start in Vienna was on January 14, 1916.
criticism
“The Engel company has just acquired a large-scale sensational drama“ König Motor ”that appears gigantic in places and that can be regarded as one of the most outstanding in the field of sensational films that use the giant modern means of technology. (...) Individual scenes of the film are reproduced in a masterly manner and offer vivid images of the soaring human ingenuity and its exploitation by strong German industry. Especially in the last act, which takes place at the shipyard, scenes of an overwhelming effect develop. (...) The image of the two women fighting on the top of the crane is probably the most exciting that has been created in the film so far, but it is a scene of gigantic beauty, which is all the more effective because the surgeon succeeded in creating the overall picture of the Throw in to force the film image. "König Motor" can thus be described as one of the most remarkable films of recent times. "