Slaves of alien will
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Slaves of alien will |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | approx. 94 (1920), 96 (new censorship 1921) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Eichberg |
| script | Carl Schneider |
| production | Richard Eichberg |
| camera | Joe Rive |
| occupation | |
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Slaves of Foreign Will is a German silent film drama from 1919 directed by Richard Eichberg with his future wife Lee Parry in the lead role.
action
Professor Mors has made a name for himself as a hypnotist. He shows great interest in the very young Claire Raven, a daughter from a good family. Her mother, a councilor for commerce, refuses Mors the hand of her daughter with reference to the dubious and disreputable way of life of Mors' mother, Mrs. Steffens. Mors, who feels deeply humiliated by the Kommerzienratin, decides to cruelly take revenge on this "injustice". He puts Claire under hypnosis and incites a man, another person he has hypnotized, on the innocent girl in order to desecrate her. Then Prof. Mors shoots himself.
Some time has passed and Claire Raven, the "slave of alien will," has given birth to a child. She cannot remember the rape and marries her childhood sweetheart. But then she comes into possession of the farewell letter from Mors, in which the crime against her and his motives are explained. Claire is deeply shocked and immediately rushes to the man who, on behalf of Mors, caused her this suffering under hypnosis. But she only finds him dead. Finally, Claire, too, suffers a terrible fate when she is killed in a fire.
Production notes
Slaves of Foreign Will came about under the title Hypnosis in the second half of 1919 and passed film censorship in December of the same year. The world premiere took place on January 3, 1920 in the Schauburg in Berlin. Depending on the version, the film was 1945 or 1978 meters long, divided into six acts. The film also opened in Vienna on January 18, 1924.
For the Hungarian exile Bela Lugosi , Slaves of Foreign Will was the first film he had shot in Germany. It was here that he first used the stage name "Bela Lugosi", by which he is known today, derived from the name of his place of birth, Lugos . Willi A. Herrmann designed the film structures.
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The subject is generally not uninteresting, but it is long. The presentation is not always perfect, the presentation is economical. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slaves of foreign will in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
