Laenatud naene

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Movie
German title The borrowed woman
Original title Laenatud naene
Country of production Russia , Estonia Governorate
original language Estonian (?)
Publishing year 1913
length 12 minutes (received)
Age rating FSK -
Rod
Director unknown
script unknown
production Semen Mintus (?)
music unknown
camera unknown
cut unknown
occupation

Laenatud naene (in German "The Borrowed Woman") is an Estonian silent film from 1913. The comedy is probably the oldest surviving feature film in Estonian film history.

Rediscovery

Until the well-preserved, 12-minute copy of the film fragment by Laenatud naene was discovered in 2014 by Gosfilmofond Russia , Johannes Pääsuke's comedy Karujaht Pärnumaal (“Bear Hunt in the Pernauer Land”) from 1914 was the oldest Estonian feature film still in existence. The nitrate film Original of Laenatud naene is lost, as are the titles and inserted texts.

In 2017, the film fragment was restored, set to music, colored and provided with text in between. The new version by Estonian artist Mart Sander has been stretched to 22 minutes.

Emergence

Laenatud naene was probably shot in the Estonian capital Tallinn in 1913 . Judging by the view of the city of Tallinn, some scenes were created as early as January 1912 or even earlier. In the outside scenes, the Langstrasse , the Dicke Margarethe , the Patkull'sche viewing platform and the Snelli pond can be recognized.

The names of the director and the cameraman have not been transmitted. The Riga businessman Semen Mintus , who comes from a Jewish family and who owned the Coliseum cinema there, is named as the producer in various newspapers , and whose distribution T / D Mintus also featured in the first Latvian film Kur patiesība? Ebreju kursistes traģēdija. ("Where is the truth? The tragedy of a Jewish student.") From 1913 is called.

Among the actors in Laenatud naene are the popular Estonian theater actors Paul Pinna (as the uncle of the main character) and Alfred Sällik (in the role of the servant). The other actors have not yet been identified.

The first screenings of the film are for May 28th jul. / June 10,  1913 greg. in Tallinn and December 7th jul. / December 20,  1913 greg. occupied in the Imperial cinema in Tartu .

action

The plot of the film is based on a fluctuating one-act play for the Volkstheater , which the writer Mihkel Aitsam translated from German into Estonian in 1908 .

In it, the poor nephew asks his rich uncle again and again for money for his family, unknown to the uncle. As the sums asked for got bigger and bigger, the uncle's doubts grow. That's why he sets off on his own to take a personal look at the nephew's family. So the nephew has no choice but to “borrow” a widowed wife and children for the appearance of being. But then the uncle and the supposed "wife" of the nephew fall in love ...

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Ruus: Kellele kuuluvad filmid? , Sirp , December 18, 2015
  2. ↑ Film on YouTube
  3. ↑ Jaak Lõhmus: Kelle oma on "Laenatud naene?" , Sirp , November 14, 2014
  4. ^ Title page of the print edition from 1913
  5. ↑ Tiit Tuumalu: Esimene Eestis vändatud movie on rahvalik jant , Postimees , November 11, 2014