Little princess crinoline

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Movie
German title Little princess crinoline
Original title Det gaadefulde Væsen
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1916
length 37 minutes
Rod
Director Robert Dinesen or
Lau Lauritzen senior
script Helen Staberow
Rita Sacchetto
production Nordisk Film Kompagni
camera Sophus Wangøe
occupation

Little Princess Krinoline is a Danish silent film by Robert Dinesen or Lau Lauritzen senior from 1916.

action

The young Rita is married to the elegant Horst von Dewitz, but the couple no longer have much to say to each other. The relationship is strained when Horst's former girlfriend Alexa returns from America and appears in the city's cabaret. Horst now regularly spends his evenings in the club and with Alexa. Rita's brother Richard Lorne wants to help his sister. The urbane painter, who lived in Munich and Rome , wants to turn the gray mouse Rita into a seductive woman who can also get Horst back to prefer spending the evenings at home.

Richard persuades the director of the Glass Palace to let Rita run his theater for an evening performance. He designs a costume for her with a pompous, lace-wrapped crinoline and has posters distributed in the city announcing a unique and sensational appearance by the "princess crinoline", which is to appear anonymously with a mask. Soon the appearance will be the talk of the town and especially Horst shows great interest in the unknown. In the evening Rita celebrates a sensational success on stage with her fantastic crinoline.

She refuses the favor of her husband, who sends her flowers and a note. However, she has him ordered to a meeting point for the next morning, where she meets him on a horse. When Horst tries to hug Rita, she rides away, but loses a glove. Horst discovers the second glove in his study and is confused.

Shortly afterwards he received an invitation from Richard Lorne to a studio party. Richard suggests that Princess Crinoline will also be present. Rita apologizes because she is not feeling well. Horst is all the more surprised when he recognizes his wife in Prinzesschen Krinoline that evening. Your cloakroom lady succeeds in locking the excited Horst out onto the balcony, from where he can finally escape without a hat or coat and rush home. He tries in vain to be let into his wife's bedroom. Only when he is lying on his bed and thinking about the events of the last few days does she come to him and they kiss passionately.

production

The original princess crinoline is 999 meters long. The film was released in Danish cinemas on November 27, 1916. The Berlin police imposed a youth ban on the film. The film was released in Prague in November 1916 after the Prague authorities had banned children and young people.

In the original, the characters have different names: Horst von Dewitz is Paul von Grabau, Rita is Kitty and Richard Lorne's name is Jean Velor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See information on Little Princess Krinoline at Det Danske Filminstitut
  2. ↑ Paolo Caneppele: decisions of the Prague Film Censorship from 1916 to 1918 . Film Archive Austria 2003, p. 145.