Madeleine (1912)
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| Original title | Madeleine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1912 |
| length | approx. 51 minutes |
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| Director | Emil Albes |
| production | German Bioscop, Berlin |
| camera | Karl Hasselmann |
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Madeleine is a German silent film drama from 1912 by Emil Albes .
action
Franco-Prussian War 1870/71: The young Madeleine becomes engaged to a German engineer. When her bridegroom receives his draft, she tries in vain to dissuade him from reporting to his regiment. She doesn't hear from him for a long time, and her longing for her future grows immeasurably. One day she is told that her fiancé has been arrested as a spy and is facing a draconian punishment. Madeleine doesn't want to lose her loved one and just sit there quietly. And so she helps him to escape. The engineer then returns to his old regiment and immediately attacks the French unit, which is holed up in the country estate of Madeleine's father.
Production notes
Madeleine was created in April 1912 in the Bioscop studio in Neubabelsberg . The three-act play with a length of 936 meters passed the censorship on May 9, 1912 and was premiered on June 22, 1912. Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War , on August 13, 1914, the film was re-censored under the title The attack on Boncourt Castle due to its highly topical subject (war between Germany and France) .
Ludwig Trautmann made his film debut here.
classification
“MADELEINE is above all a social drama in which women are crushed between love and defense of the fatherland. The film does not subsume this conflict in the scheme of fate tragedy. Rather, it depicts the love of women very precisely as a physically sexual one, which has its dignity in self-determination and ultimately seeks to enforce it against the claims of the fatherland. "