This is how the lots of life fall
| Movie | |
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| Original title | This is how the lots of life fall |
| Country of production | Austria- Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | approx. 68 (1918) 57 (today) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedrich Rosenthal |
| script | Heinrich Glücksmann |
| production |
Anton Kolm Luise Kolm Jakob Fleck |
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The Lots in Life Fall is an Austro-Hungarian silent film melodrama directed by Friedrich Rosenthal , released in 1918, with Liane Haid and Thea Rosenquist as two dissimilar sisters.
action
Anna and Mela earn their living as flower makers. Although sisters, the two young women are quite unequal. While Anna, the elder, is serious and hardworking, Mela is considered reckless and flighty. In the painter Hans Weigand, Anna has a sincere admirer who absolutely wants to marry her. She wouldn't be averse if she hadn't given her mother on her deathbed the promise to take care of Mela first, so that the little sister doesn't get astray. Disappointed, Weigand then accepted a scholarship from the wealthy patron Adalbert von Darnau and went to Italy to study art. One day the two young women are asked into the house of a wealthy banker to decorate his daughter's wedding dress with flowers. Mela sees a precious pearl necklace and puts it on out of sheer coquetry. When someone arrives, she cannot put the piece of jewelry back in time. The collier's disappearance is of course noticed immediately, and suspicion falls on the two sisters. The siblings' house is searched. The jewelry is discovered, and the kind-hearted Anna takes the blame. A trial ensues, the present Mela avoids the gaze of her innocent accused sister and lets her run into the open knife. Eventually Anna is sentenced to prison.
The real culprit, Mela, is by no means gripped by remorse, on the contrary, she continues her life with her own dissolute attitude. Her sister has long since forgotten about it. Tired of embroidering flowers, Mela soon worked behind the counter of a bar and finally met the rich and much older Mr. von Darnau, whom she also married. But she also behaves badly towards him, cheats on him by the line and thread with a younger man and gives herself completely to pleasure and vice. She throws at her jealous husband, who got behind her adultery, with a sneer: “Youth belongs to youth!” Her graying husband lacks the strength to counter Mela. After Anna has served her sentence, she returns to her sister and lives in the Darnau house. When her husband returns, Mela hides Anna behind a screen , as she is ashamed of her “criminal” sister. Darnau, who suspects a lover of Melas behind the screen, shoots through the "Spanish wall" and kills the completely innocent Anna. So the responsible older sister remained true to the promise made on her mother's deathbed right into her death.
Production notes
Falling Lots of Life was premiered on September 13, 1918. The four-stroke had a length of 1410 meters. The existing socket has a length of 1169 meters.
With this film, the regular, cinematic collaboration between Liane Haid and her 30 years older colleague Hermann Benke , which lasted almost the entire First World War, ended, among others in Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland , Mit Gott für Kaiser und Reich , Sommeridylle, Die Tragedy at Schloss Rottersheim , Auf der Höhe , Lebenswogen , Nobody can get along with me and The King is amused when they stepped in front of the camera.
To the director
How to Fall the Lots of Life was one of only three films by the Jewish theater maker (director, dramaturgy) and publicist Friedrich Rosenthal . By March 1938 he had directed 26 plays at the Burgtheater for six years and also staged them at the Volkstheater . Immediately released when Austria was annexed, he fled to France, where the Gestapo arrested him after the invasion of the Wehrmacht and deported him to Auschwitz on the last day of August 1942 .
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Material and games, photos and scenery mostly very good."
In the Austrian film archive you can read: “How do the lots fall? Injustice - that is the melodramatic moment in Rosenthal's drama - and at the same time unstoppable. Rosenthal's film ... is tragic in that it melancholy says goodbye to an outmoded world that is unable to hear the "knocking on the room door" (Stefan Zweig) of the catastrophes of the 20th century behind its curtains and heavy doors. "
classification
“1918/1919 in the cinema: the world is strangely out of joint. On the one hand moral action is punished, on the other hand the phantasm of a scientifically founded world domination is less of a horror than reassurance. The families are torn apart. Emotional ties fall into the realm of business relationships and once feelings are involved, then they wear the mask of calculation or of an instinctual desire. One thing is certain: Thinking of yourself first pays off, and too much respect for the dead reduces your chances in life considerably. For the present the simple and perfidious slogan is: "If you cannot live, you must die". SO FALL THE LOTS OF LIFE speaks of inevitability in the title. A young woman from gray suburban backgrounds takes the legacy of her late mother seriously. She protects her younger sister and puts her own needs aside. But their path of life, turned as fate, does not give moral credits, rather lessons in disappointment and bitterness. In the end everyone has to learn to lose. "
Web links
- This is how the lots of life fall at The German Early Cinema Database
- So lots of life fall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- This is how the lots in life fall at filmportal.de
- This is how the lots of life fall on stummfilm.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is how the lots of life fall In: Paimann's film lists
- ↑ This is how the lots of life fall ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on filmarchiv.at
