Just don't get married
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Just don't get married |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Froelich |
| production | Oskar Messter |
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Just don't marry is a German silent film fun play from 1915 with Henny Porten in the leading role.
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Henny von Senden is a young, impetuous and uneducated backfish who, with all the nonsense in her head, gives his landlady nothing but headaches and sleepless nights. Only with her young professor of literature does Henny become completely embarrassed, because she is madly in love with him. In order to put the young, blond-haired man on the right track, she writes a love poem in her essay book, oozing with longing lines, which even he can no longer overlook. At night she climbs the ladder into the professor's study to find out whether he has read her greasy-languishing effusions and has already reacted to them. To make matters worse, the pension's own watchdog is wide awake and barks his heart out when Henny is reading the red lettered corrections to her heart boy. And so it happens that the boarding kite finds the same way into the professor's study as Henny did shortly before.
The cheeky student is deeply distressed because the professor obviously thinks she is completely over the top. In the pain of her love, Henny wants to throw herself into the Landwehr Canal with suicidal intent. The German thoroughness thwarted her plan. Barely ready to jump into the cool water, a park attendant comes along and makes it clear to the young lady that bathing in the canal is strictly forbidden with a fine of three marks. And since the intention of an offense counts as much as the act as such, the pedantic officer Henny wants to get these three marks right here. Otherwise, he threatens, he will have to have her arrested. Now her heart is full, but her pockets are empty, and so Henny's rescue approaches in the form of a young fellow student who gladly pays the three marks for the over-excited girl.
The young man is not entirely convinced of Henny's will to survive, and so he follows her until she stops at a pastry shop. Obviously, she is now planning to end her life with an excess of goodies and orders a specialty, “Aviator bombs with whipped cream”, in five calorie-explosive copies. Meanwhile, the boarding dragon has found and read Henny's farewell letter written in love pain and suddenly stands in front of her. The landlady threatens her problem child with permanent arrest, if only to protect her from an act of desperation. However, Henny's will for freedom cannot be broken by the pension walls, and so she plans to take a break. Before that, she promised her boarding house friends that men should no longer play a role in her life and that marriage would never be an issue. Henny flees home, to the father's lock of the von Senden.
Henny emancipates himself here, becomes a free spirit and learns to ride, fence, do gymnastics and box. When one day a man begins to be interested in her, she sets such high hurdles that she thinks she is safe from him. But the gentleman fights all sporting tasks with glamor and so Henny promises him to want to enter into a “marriage without love and without all obligations”. During the honeymoon she would like to have separate bedrooms, but the spatial emergency forces the two of them to compromise, which Henny ends with the premature termination of the honeymoon. Back home, both spouses are deeply frustrated. Henny’s father no longer likes to stand idly by and gives the unloved son-in-law the advice to make Henny jealous. Her husband starts a rather bumbling attempt and hooks up with the castle's own maid. Henny actually gets angry and now slips into the role of the maid herself. Now love has a chance in her life too.
Production notes
Just don't get married was made in the Messter film studio in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, was censored in September 1915 and premiered on October 1, 1915. The film had three acts.
criticism
“If there should ever be an opportunity to discuss Henny Porten's artistic career… the conscientious chronicler will most likely have to highlight the artist's truly incomparable performance in the comedy“ Just don't marry ”. (...) A series of humorous episodes, brilliantly drawn characters and an ingenious direction spice up the happily thought-out plot of this excellent film swan, in which Henny Porten offers a brilliant performance that can hardly be surpassed. "