Life waves
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Life waves |
| Country of production | Austria- Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 73 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jakob Fleck Luise Kolm |
| script |
Hans Kottow Jakob Fleck Luise Kolm |
| production |
Anton Kolm Luise Kolm Jakob Fleck for the Viennese art film industry |
| occupation | |
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Lebenswogen is an Austro-Hungarian silent film drama made in 1916 by Jakob Fleck and Luise Kolm with Liane Haid and Hermann Benke in the leading roles.
action
In the sanatorium of Prof. Wanderberg a princely highness is expected, who is to be operated on by Wanderberg's son and junior physician Fritz, who until then had been quite unsuccessful. Commerzialrat Berger, also ill, arrives on the same day. He too should be operated on. His daughter Liane is engaged to Fritz Wanderberg. The young doctor does not regard Berger's condition as particularly dramatic; a diagnosis that Fritz's father not only vehemently contradicts, but which is also fundamentally wrong. Prof. Wanderberg is very concerned about his son's attitude in general and his lack of medical expertise in particular. Although the operations are to be carried out the next day, Fritz Wanderberg comes home drunk from a night of wild drinking. He is then withdrawn from the operations that the talented, hardworking and ambitious colleague Dr. Steering should perform. Both operations succeed, and Dr. Lenk becomes the Prince's personal physician. In addition, he wins Liane's love.
Enraged by these developments, Fritz Wanderberg wants to take revenge on the annoying competitor. He tracks down the alcohol-addicted mother Lenk and ensures that she shows up in a drunken state at a Berger festival and wants to throw herself to death there in her condition. With that, Dr. Lenk's reputation largely destroyed, Kommerzialrat Berger pulls his reluctant daughter away from Lenk and shows him the door in shock. On the way home, the doctor who was killed sees his broken mother dying on the street. Having finally got rid of the annoying competitor, Fritz tries again to end up with Liane, but she just gives him the cold shoulder with contempt. Fritzen's campaign of revenge takes on ever more terrible forms; he tries to murder Liane and lays the lead in the direction of Lenks. He is then arrested. Thanks to his medical expertise, Lenk was granted a release from pre-trial detention and was able to save the seriously injured vine with an injection of a healing serum he developed. Liane regains the ability to speak and, in a delirious state, mentions Fritz's name. He is then taken to her sick bed, and Liane repeats her accusation that he carried out the murder attempt on her. Fritz Wanderberg is arrested and nothing stands in the way of Liane Berger's engagement with Erwin Lenk.
Production notes
Lebenswogen was shot in Vienna in 1916 , passed the German film censorship in December of the same year and was banned from school (= youth ban). The premiere was on January 5, 1917 in Vienna. The version of the four-act act shown was around 1500 meters long.
The film was one of the various collaborations between Hermann Benke and Liane Haid during the First World War . Both of them previously worked for the Viennese art film industry . a. filmed the patriotic dramas Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland (1915) and Mit Gott für Kaiser und Reich (1916) as well as the melodrama Die Tragödie at Schloss Rottersheim .
Reviews
“With this splendid film, which has all the advantages of a quality picture, the Vienna Art Film Industry Society has once again proven its good reputation to the best. The viewer is constantly under the spell of a captivating and ethical act that rises to a dramatic height and which, which is a special advantage, is portrayed in a gripping and lifelike manner by popular first-class Viennese artists.
In Paimann's film lists is to read: "material (with the exception of injection and robbery scene in the forest) exciting and interesting with very good, real-life dramatic scenes photos and scenery very well.."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lebenswogen 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.
Web links
- Lebenswogen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lebenswogen at The German Early Cinema Database
- Lebenswogen at filmportal.de