Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage
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| Original title | Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1911 |
| length | 7 minutes |
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| Director | Roméo Bosetti |
| script | Roméo Bosetti |
| production | Pathé Comica, Nice |
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Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage is a fragmentarily preserved French silent film comedy by Roméo Bosetti from 1911.
action
Rosalie pushes her lover Moritz to her father's room. He should ask him for her hand. However, the shy and weak young man doesn't approve of his father and so he refuses to give his consent.
On the way home, Moritz received an advertising leaflet in front of a house that indicated a boxing event. He enters the house and is immediately prepared for a boxing match. His opponent is a head taller than him and hit him twice ko can before Moritz advantage of its small size and defeat his opponents.
Euphoric, he now knocks down anyone who comes in his way and returns to Rosalie's apartment. There he destroys the furnishings in the living room, bedroom and large parts of the kitchen before Rosalie's father finally gives his consent to the marriage of the two. Rosalie and Moritz embrace.
production
Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage was part of the popular Rosalie series, which was created from 1911 at Pathé Comica in Nice and Pathé Frères in Paris and comprised more than 30 short films. The main role of Rosalie, occasionally also called "Emma" in German-speaking countries, played Sarah Duhamel , who is considered one of the first film comedians in France. A total of three films were made with Maurice Schwartz as “Little Moritz”. Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage premiered on October 13, 1911.
Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage is preserved in a 127-meter-long copy in the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam . The original length of the film was 150 meters.
literature
- Little Moritz demande Rosalie en mariage . In: Claudia Preschl (ed.): Laughing bodies: comedians in the cinema of the 1910s . SYNEMA Society for Film and Media, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901644-27-6 , p. 186, 189 .
Web links
- S Little Moritz demande mariage Rosalie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The German title How Emma got a man is unverified except on IMDb.