Crucify them!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Crucify them! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script | Paul Otto |
| production | Paul Davidson for PAGU |
| camera | Theodor Sparkuhl |
| occupation | |
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Crucify them! (Alternative spelling : Crucify them! ) Is a German silent film drama from 1919 by Georg Jacoby . The leading roles are played by Pola Negri and Harry Liedtke .
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Maria Hartung is married and loves her husband and child with all her heart. As a lover of classical music, one day she invited the talented pianist van der Straaten to her apartment to give her a small private concert. When Maria's husband comes home, he completely misunderstands the situation and assumes that his wife is cheating on him. The high-ranking husband of the gods throws his wife out of the house in a rage. Left on her own, Maria van Straaten follows a concert tour to America.
But the pianist lets her sit there, and so Maria has to try to keep her head above water with plain work. Eventually she finds a job in the Lunapark on Coney Island . Maria meets a certain Pablo Fuentes with whom she finally returns to Europe. Fuentes turns out to be a pretty bad guy and tries to use his knowledge of Maria to blackmail her husband in Germany. Maria then kills the villain. Then she returns to her husband, takes poison and dies at his feet.
Production notes
Crucify them! was made in the late spring of 1919 in the Ufa-Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof and was censored in July 1919. The original four-act film was 1546 meters long (in the new censorship in 1921 only 1434 meters) and was opened on July 18, 1919 at UT Kurfürstendamm Premiered. A youth ban has been issued. The Austrian premiere was on December 12, 1919. The version shown there was about 1,600 meters, slightly longer than the German original version.
Kurt Richter designed the film structures .
Reviews
“It is the eternally repeating story that the woman completely neglected by the man seeks distraction and with the best character traits is nevertheless considered reckless. The woman’s path in life becomes sloping when the man, with rigid correctness, condemns her unheard. Pola Negri, who is usually assigned demonic roles, has warm tones for the misunderstood and rejected woman, which evoke equally warm sympathy. Due to this characteristic and the technical advantages, this work can count on a strong public success. "
In Paimann's film lists "pictures, play, scenery and especially the dance scenes material highly dramatic, excellent (a hit I rank).": To be read
Web links
- Crucify them! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crucify them! at murnau-stiftung.de
- Crucify them! at filmportal.de
- Crucify them! at The German Early Cinema Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ some sources mention Kurt Waschneck
- ↑ Neue Kino-Rundschau from September 20, 1919. P. 24
- ↑ Crucify them! in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
