Don't kill any more!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Don't kill any more! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lupu pick |
| script |
Gerhard Lamprecht , Lupu Pick |
| production | Lupu Pick for Rex-Film AG , Berlin |
| camera | Ivar Petersen |
| occupation | |
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Don't kill any more! (Alternative title Misericordia - Do not kill! ) Is a German silent film by the director Lupu Pick from 1919 .
content
It is the time before the revolution in Russia. The violinist Erik Paulsson is taken to a poetry reading by his son. During the lecture of poetry critical of the government, Cossacks storm the event and arrest those present. The governor has the prisoners shot. Paulsson's son is among them. Paulsson himself escapes with the help of the governor's secretary, Lundt.
Paulsson appears again as a cafe violinist. He sees the governor among the guests. Paulsson stops playing, walks up to the governor and strangles him in senseless rage. Paulsson is sentenced to life imprisonment.
18 years later: Paulsson is pardoned for good conduct and is taken in by his now grown-up daughter Karin. Paulsson's daughter and the poet Sebald Brückner, son of the public prosecutor who pronounced the verdict on Paulsson, love each other. The prosecutor is against the connection and implores Karin to leave his son alone. Karin and Sebald get married anyway. Paulsson, who doesn't want to stand in the way of the young couple, moves out and works as a street musician.
Lundt tries to dissuade the public prosecutor from believing in the correctness of the death penalty with the help of examples from picture books about "Executions through the ages".
Sebald Brückner finally has success as a dramatist with a play that he wrote for Karin. However, when the lustful theater director tries to attack Karin and the two defend themselves against him, they are dismissed and find no more engagement anywhere. Karin gets sick about it. Sebald Brückner kills the theater director and is sentenced to death by the court.
Remarks
The buildings were made by Willi A. Herrmann , Josef Searle was the production manager. The film premiered in November 1919 in the Union Theater Kurfürstendamm in Berlin .
criticism
“[…] It would mean doing violence to the work if one wanted to see it as a trend film that deals with the not unrelated topic of the abolition of the death penalty. Attempts have been made to make every point of view their right and to draw caricatures neither for the pros nor the cons. Every expert knows how difficult it is to give a film that is supposed to be more than just a game in an interesting cinematic form. A happy union of interesting form and intellectual content seems to me to have succeeded here. In an approximately tolstoic way, a series of crimes develops from a small offense. In part, according to the current laws, the death penalty is available. [...] "
Web links
- Don't kill any more! in the Internet Movie Database (English)