Moth (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Moth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1911 |
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| Director | Urban Gad |
| script | Urban Gad |
| production | German bioscop |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
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Nachtfalter is a German silent film in three acts by Urban Gad from 1911. It was the second film that Asta Nielsen made in Germany. The silent film is considered lost .
action
The sisters Olga and Martha have previously worked together as tailors . Olga is persuaded by vaudeville comedian Goldmann to come with him as a dancer and Olga takes all the sisters' savings and secretly flees with Goldmann. In the following years she became a celebrated dancer under the name "Mademoiselle Yvonne". Martha, on the other hand, remains a tailor and also marries Felix Dorner, a tailor. Both live in simple circumstances, but Dorner's business collapses after his house bank collapses. Desperate Dorner becomes a drinker, but Martha stands by him during this difficult time.
Olga leads a carefree life. When the rich Baron von Malten wants to marry her, Olga is ready to give up her life as a dancer, but first she has to fulfill an obligation - a guest performance in her hometown. Just as Olga is making a guest appearance here, Felix Dorner receives a high inheritance. He leaves Martha, who breaks her arm while trying to stop him and can no longer work as a seamstress, but laboriously earns money as a flower seller. One day she sees her husband in a café, who has become Olga's favorite because of his large amount of money and generous behavior. Martha appears in a mad rage in the café and confronts her sister, who not only stole her money back then, but now also her husband. Olga is stunned and asks her sister for forgiveness. Then she hurries away and kills herself shortly afterwards, mentally shattered. Martha and Felix find each other again at Olga's open coffin, as Olga had wished for in her last will.
production
In 1910, Asta Nielsen had made her first film with abysses, directed by Urban Gad . The Danish silent film was a worldwide success, but there were no film offers in Denmark for either Nielsen or Gad. Through an acquaintance, Gad got in touch with Deutsche Bioscop , who offered Nielsen a contract for two films. Gad's participation was not included in the contract, but he nevertheless accompanied Nielsen to Berlin . He eventually took over the direction of Hot Blood and the following film Nachfalter without payment. Only for the script that he had written for both films, he received "later a small payment".
The shooting took place in the Bioscop-Atelier Chausseestrasse in Berlin, "a few poor floor spaces". The studio had glass walls and, in contrast to the filming of Afgrunden , where only sunlight was used, it could be artificially illuminated with electric light.
The moth , which was 800 meters long, was banned by the censors on April 6, 1911. The film had its premiere on May 13, 1911. No surviving copy of the film is known.
Web links
- Moth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Moth at filmportal.de