Nelly (1914)

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Movie
Original title Nelly
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1914
Rod
Director Willy Zeyn
production Paul Davidson
Jules Greenbaum
occupation

Nelly is a two-part, German silent film melodrama from 1914 with Toni Sylva in the title role.

action

It tells the popular tale of the rise of the poor little flower girl Nelly. Nelly is a typical small city plant of that time, who hopes one day to get to know her very personal prince, who will tear her from her petty-bourgeois everyday misery. In fact, she soon meets a well-off, financially potent man who marries her and introduces her to the so-called “better circles”. Nelly now has, in the spotlight, social acceptance, prosperity and recognition, and a world opens up to her that she had previously not been able to imagine.

But her sense of wellbeing, which degenerates into extravagance, soon means the ruin of her husband. As soon as he is no longer able to meet the needs of the newcomer, other “gentlemen” offer themselves to Nelly to want to be of service to her. Your way leads straight into the "vice" - gambling dens, racing fields and entertainment establishments will soon become your new world. And there is always someone who is willing to finance this luxury life for her in luxury. In the end, Nelly's dissolute parvenu life , characterized by excess and lack of morality, comes to a deadly end.

Production notes

Nelly was created in the spring of 1914 in the Vitascope studio in Berlin-Weißensee . The production company for both parts was the renowned Projektions-AG "Union" ( PAGU ). Both parts with a length of four acts each passed the film censorship in June 1914 and were banned from young people. The first part started on June 19, 1914, the second part on July 17 of the same year. The first part was also awarded with the subtitle The novel of a flower girl .

criticism

“What Tony Sylva does artistically in these two parts of her Nelly follows on from the best times of her film career. The rest of the portrayal of the plot, which is rich in characters and phases, has also been viewed and posed with the eyes of the experienced director and, as a unity, led to complete success. It's a very well done film! "

- Cinematographic review of September 20, 1914. p. 26

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To production v. Part 1
  2. ↑ To production v. Part 2

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