Seafaring is necessary! (Movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Seafaring is necessary! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1921 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Biebrach |
| script | Thomas Hall |
| production |
Maxim Galitzenstein , Paul Ebner |
| camera | Julius Balting |
| occupation | |
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Seafaring is necessary! is a German silent film from 1921 by Rudolf Biebrach , based on the homonymous novel by Gorch Fock from 1913. The leading roles are played by Hans Marr and Lucie Höflich .
action
Hamburg-Finkenwerder, in the last years of the 19th century. Klaus Mewes, whom everyone just calls Störtebeker after the legendary pirate, is the son of a deep-sea fisherman. And like him, Störtebeker junior is drawn to the sea. Klaus absolutely wants to accompany his father and hire him as a cabin boy. Finally the father gives in and both go out to sea, leaving their mother with her worries, to fish in the North Sea. Arrived at the next port, the father thinks better and sends the boy back to his mother.
But then the father does not return home. Störtebeker waits and waits for months. He does not want to admit the alleged death of the father. But this experience does not deter Störtebeker, and he leaves home and hearth, although his mother wringing his hands asks him to stay on land. The boy, for whom seafaring is a necessity, only wants to be a seaman and eventually becomes the owner of a particularly magnificent oyster cutter on the Elbe .
Production notes
Seafaring is necessary! was made in the Maxim-Film-Ateliers at Blücherstraße 32 in Berlin, was five acts long and was 1,761 meters long. The film passed the censorship on September 2, 1921 and was shown for the first time a week earlier, on August 25, 1921, at the Berlin premiere theaters on Kurfürstendamm and Nollendorfplatz.
The film structures were designed by Hans Sohnle .
Reviews
"... real life flows from the film [...] It is not a local carving, the tragic-human aspect of the portrayal lifts it above and beyond that."
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The subject is too meager in relation to the length of the film, the director has tried hard to remedy this by loving attention to detail. The presentation was very good. The possibilities in the sea scenes do not appear to be properly exploited. "
Individual evidence
Web links
- Gorch Fock film on macau.uni-kiel.de
- Seafaring is necessary! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Seafaring is necessary! at filmportal.de