Rose Bernd (1919)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title Rose Bernd
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1919
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Alfred Halm
script Alfred Halm based on the drama of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann
production Oskar Messter
music Giuseppe Becce (at the world premiere)
camera Willi Gabel
occupation

Rose Bernd is the film adaptation of the play Rose Bernd by Gerhart Hauptmann . Directed by Alfred Halm . The main role is cast by Henny Porten . The silent film has a length of 6 acts at 1,900 meters (70 minutes) and is black and white in the format 1: 1.33.

action

Rose Bernd, a good-natured, well-behaved and dear farmer's daughter, devotedly cared for the seriously ill son of the wealthy Flamm family until he died. Over time, his father, the mayor Flamm, showed himself to be more and more interested in the young girl and consequently pressed Rose heavily. Eventually she gives in to the haunted wooing of the married and much older man. Flamm's wife is also very ill, she knows nothing about her husband's stalking. Eventually Rose Bernd becomes pregnant from the old flame.

To make matters worse, the young woman also falls into the clutches of the equally robust, beefy, rude and depraved Arthur Streckmann, who has watched Rose and the old flame at the tete-a-tete with his own eyes and is now “his right” with Rose “Required. He threatens her to betray her “forbidden” love affair with flame and to make it public and blackmails her: she should be sexually at his will. However, Rose remains steadfast, whereupon Streckmann brutally raped her.

A third applicant for Rose Bernd's favor is the pious bookseller August Keil. He officially asked Rose's father for her hand, but his wooing fell on deaf ears with the young woman. In the meantime, Steckmann is spreading rumors about Rose Bernd, who are supposed to discredit her. Her father and the old flame then report Streckmann for defamation and defamation. It comes to trial. But Rose Bernd, deeply embarrassed by the events, denies the affair with Flamm as well as her pregnancy in court and even commits perjury out of shame . As the last act of deep inner turmoil and despair, Rose Bernd runs into the forest and gives birth to her child in the last effort. Then she strangles her newborn and returns to town shaken by febrile convulsions.

background

The shooting took place in August 1919. The film was produced by Messter Film and distributed by Hansa-Film-Verleih GmbH Berlin (first distribution) and Universum Film (UFA). The censorship tests took place in September 1919 and on November 5, 1920 (B.43374, B.00685). Both times the film was banned from young people. The premiere was on October 5, 1919 in the Berlin Mozart Hall as a charity matinee for needy, single mothers. The mass start was on October 17, 1919.

The buildings were designed by Hans Baluschek and executed by Jack Winter and Kurt Dürnhöfer .

Web links