Revolution wedding (1915)
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| German title | Revolution wedding |
| Original title | Revolutionary bryllup |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | 63 minutes |
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| Director | August Blom |
| script | based on the play of the same name by Sophus Michaëlis |
| production | Ole Olsen for Nordisk Film Kompagni, Copenhagen |
| camera | Johan Ankerstjerne |
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Revolutionshochzeit is a Danish silent film drama filmed in 1914 and set at the time of the French Revolution, starring Valdemar Psilander and Betty Nansen . Directed by August Blom .
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France in May of the revolutionary year 1793. The Jacobins push for the complete abolition of the monarchy and ruthlessly persecute the last monarchists. European neighbors are alarmed and old troops are ready to end the revolutionary madness of Robespierre. Under the protection of Austrian troops, the nobleman Erneste de Tressailles wants to take part in the liberation from tyranny as part of the white squadron and rides into Trionville Castle with the Austrians. Through one of the hussars of his fiancée Alaine de L'Estoile, he sends a blossoming orange branch, which her maid Léontine takes. This is the sign of the upcoming wedding to be held on Trionville. Both of them go to the wedding ceremony in the castle chapel in a festive setting, while the steward has a feast prepared. As the couple sat at the wedding table and dined, the company received bad news: the Jacobins are on their way! In fact, you can already hear their rifle volleys. Erneste jumps up and climbs down through the window into the courtyard to hurry to his people.
Meanwhile, the Jacobins advance into the castle grounds, led by Inspector Montaloup, male dogs are penetrated into the living quarters of the frightened Alaine and poked with the tips of their sabers at the paintings of their ancestors. Erneste, who escaped across the castle pond in a rowing boat, is "received" and arrested on the other bank by Lieutenant Colonel Marc Arron. He is brought back to the castle and a short tribunal is held in which Erneste, an “emigrant” who, according to the revolutionary resolution, should all be executed, is sentenced to death. Prosper, Alaine's loyal servant, who had tried to help her husband by removing the Bourbon cockade, which betrayed the Marquis, is the first to be fused by the Jacobins because he had claimed to be the owner of the one hidden under his foot and finally discovered to be cockade. Alaine, in turn, who had not tried to flee, is acquitted by the Jacobin tribunal. With a remnant of honor among the revolutionaries, the Marquis Erneste is allowed to spend his wedding night, his last night in general, with his bride. The next morning he was to suffer the same fate as Prosper.
While Erneste and his wife Alaine are desperately looking for a way out in the great hall, the Jacobins celebrate a big feast downstairs in the kitchen with the staff. Alaine thinks about a way out and sends her maid Léontine to lieutenant colonel Marc Arron to ask him for an interview in her room. There she made the following offer to the revolutionary officer. She wanted to grant him this night if she let her newly wedded husband escape. Arron, who is definitely interested in the marquise, then swaps clothes with Erneste, who can now escape in a Jacobin outfit. Alaine realizes that Arron's courage and bravery are much greater than Ernestes and gives himself up to him who renounces his right to the night of love. The marquise sees in the revolutionary all the qualities she had hoped to find in her escaped husband. The morning is approaching and Arron takes on his responsibility. He firmly rejects the pistol handed to him for a suicide. When Montaloup learns of Erneste's escape, he lets his people swarm to Erneste. Chevalier Marc Arron, on the other hand, faces the death penalty for helping a convicted nobleman and émigré to escape. When the Jacobins tried to force their way into Madame's salon because they did not open, another crowd of Jacobins poured in through the other door, with the Marquis in tow: he had given himself up voluntarily. But none of it is of any use, both men are sentenced to death. Montaloup tears up his death sentence, but Arron goes to the window and gives the order to shoot the soldiers aiming at him with rifles below. With the words "Long live Alaine de L'Estoile, long live the Republic" he falls in the hail of bullets. Alaine takes his dying body in her arms and says "He loved me".
Production notes
Revolution Wedding began in 1914, but was only performed on November 15, 1915. The Austrian premiere took place on January 16, 1916, the German probably at the end of 1915, as several articles on the film appeared in the journals Der Kinematograph and Lichtbild-Bühne during this time . The German re-performance took place in May 1919 in Berlin's Mozart Hall. The length of the four-act vehicle was 1234 meters.
This was the third film adaptation of this material and at the same time one of the last great international successes of the Danish silent film before the end of the First World War . Director Blom had played the leading role in the version of Viggo Larsen (1909), written five years earlier . Another version was created in Germany in 1912, directed by Emil Albes . Another remake was also made in Germany in 1928 , this time directed by the Dane AW Sandberg . In 1937 Hans H. Zerlett directed a German sound film version.
Reviews and reception
“With the generous film adaptation of Sophus Michaelis“ Revolutionary Wedding ”, Nordisk has created a work to be recognized. A material full of poetic power and powerful drama runs through four brilliantly played acts. Excellent equipment, a direction initiated from a purely artistic point of view and a routine technique completely replace the missing word and have a profound effect on the viewer. The first-class cast of the leading roles by Waldemar Psilander, Betty Nansen and Nicolai Johannsen stamp this film almost as a document of contemporary film art. In particular, it is Waldemar Psilander in the role of Lieutenant Colonel Marc Arron who shows us the determined hero who despises life [in] ... almost masterful perfection. Betty Nansen ... once again reveals her very peculiar artistry. "