Life for life

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Movie
Original title Life for life
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1916
length 68 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Eichberg
script Carl Schneider
production Richard Eichberg
camera Heinrich Gärtner
occupation
  • Ellen Richter : Princess Carmen Metschersky
  • Erich Kaiser-Titz : Kurt Frederich, co-owner of the Tomson and Frederich banking house
  • Walter Wolff : Peter Tomson, co-owner of the Tomson and Frederich banking house
  • Lu Synd : Ellen Tomson, his wife
  • Louis Neher : Peppo Pastia, later Count Pedro Costa, Carmen's uncle

Life for Life is a German silent film drama from 1916 by Richard Eichberg . The main roles are played by Ellen Richter and Erich Kaiser-Titz .

action

Kurt Frederich and Peter Tomson are the owners of a private bank. For reasons that are not further explained, the adventurer Princess Metschersky has feelings of hatred towards Tomson and tries to harm him massively. With the help of the convict Peppo Pastia, who lives with her as Uncle Pedro Costa, she tries to separate the two bankers. She also accuses Tomson's wife of theft. Princess Carmen tries to make Kurt Frederich submissive with a woman's weapons and manages to get him and her “uncle” Pedro into his house.

But Pedro's jealousy of the attractive banker leads the crook to shoot Kurt during a hunt, seriously wounding him. Pedro then tries to persuade Carmen to flee with her, but she refuses. To force them to do so, Pedro alias Peppo plans a second attack on Kurt Frederich, which can be prevented at the last moment. This then throws the criminal couple out of his villa. In the bitter cold winter, Carmen and Pedro get lost in the wilderness and freeze to death.

Production notes

Life for Life was a sequel to the 1915 film The Collins Diary and was made in January / February 1916 in Krummhübel in the Giant Mountains . After the censorship bill in February 1916, a youth ban was issued. The world premiere was on April 22, 1916 in the Union Theater in Berlin. The four-act film was 1,398 meters long.

criticism

In Paimann's film lists you can read: "Material, game and photos are very good, the end is weaker."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leben um Leben ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Paimann's film lists @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.filmarchiv.at