Chains of the Past (1914)
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| Original title | Chains of the past |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
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| Director | NN |
| production | Dekage-Film, Cologne |
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Chains of the Past is a German silent film drama from 1914 with Mia May in the lead role.
action
A beautiful young woman, a variety artist married to an aristocrat, is surrounded by a dark past. She was once a dreaded burglar who could never be caught. Her trademark was her work clothes: a black jersey and a mask. But the thief is a restless soul; The calm waters into which their marriage has led bore them to death. The noblewoman leaves her husband and embarks for America.
But the ocean liner goes under, and her husband suspects her to be among the drowned. Now presumed a widower, he buries himself in his grief and from then on avoids any company. One day he got over the grief and met a new woman. They both get married and go on their honeymoon in New York. There the aristocrat comes across a couple of thieves whom he can arrest. The astonishment is enormous, because the thief is his first wife, believed dead, and she tries to blackmail him for bigamy.
Production notes
Chains of the Past was probably made in the summer of 1913, censored in November 1913, and premiered in February 1914. Guaranteed performances of the three-act, whose director is unknown, took place between June and September 1914 in Hamburg, Görlitz and Munich. The strip was seen in Austria from July 17, 1914.
For Mia May, this was one of her first film appearances for a small Cologne production company.
criticism
"The interesting adventure drama has exciting moments in which the third act is particularly rich."