So the sun takes revenge
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| Original title | So the sun takes revenge |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | 36 minutes |
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| Director | William Wauer |
| script | Richard Oswald |
| production | Paul Davidson for PAGU |
| camera | Axel Graatkjær (not secured) |
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How the sun takes revenge is a German silent film drama from 1915 by William Wauer (director) and Richard Oswald (screenplay).
action
The landlord Matter runs a small restaurant somewhere in the middle of nowhere that is pretty shabby. His wife, who is both disgusted and sick, lies in bed every day and urgently needs medication, which her husband cannot afford. His teenage daughter Aranka tries - in vain - to beg the pharmacist for the medicine prescribed by the doctor. One day a wandering lute player enters the tavern and sleeps in the poor, half-ruined house. Already on the same evening Matter saw that the minstrel obviously had some money thanks to his entertainment skills, and so he made a plan. Armed with an ax, he wants to slay the sleeping guest in his bed at night. But then his teenage daughter gets in his way, telling her father to ask the violinist to play another piece so that the sick mother forgets her pain for a moment. When the stranger moves on with his guitar the next day, Matter secretly follows him. At the moment when the musician sits down briefly in the middle of the landscape to rest a little, the innkeeper, creeping up from behind, slams himself mercilessly. The minstrel who, while dying, prophesies to his murderer that one day the sun will take revenge on him for this outrage, is dead and is robbed by Matter. But the money comes too late, Matter's wife is dead. A little later, Aranka finds a small chain in the tap room next to the intoxicated father sleeping on the floor. The girl picks up the chain and keeps it.
Twelve long years have passed and the child has become a beautiful young woman. The widow of the murdered traveling musician and his son Arpad, who has obviously inherited his father's violin playing talent, have settled nearby. They followed the dead man's trail that ends here, in this region. With the minstrel's stolen money, Matter has built a new, better inn and left the old, decrepit tavern. Matter would like to marry his daughter to the son of a rich farmer, but she vehemently rejects this request. Aranka and Arpad fell in love with each other. Matter sneaks after Aranka and wants to examine the young man. He almost gets hit, believing he sees the revenant of the man he murdered in the likewise fiddling music. Matter remembers the prophecy of the dead, believes he is being persecuted and is becoming more and more driven and comical. He largely avoids sunlight. Back home, his daughter confronts him with the gold chain that she had found around her neck ever since. He suspects that she knows about his bloody act and storms out of the house, not without locking Aranka first and nailing the door shut. Then Matter fetches a long ladder and boarded up her window from the outside, the last refuge in the open.
In the meantime, her lover Arpad is longingly waiting for Aranka, but she doesn't come. And so he goes looking for her. He hears Aranka's cries for help through the boarded-up window and breaks open the wooden paneling with an ax. Villagers hurrying to break open the door that Matter has nailed shut and free the lovers. Meanwhile, under the moral burden of crime, Matter has gone mad. He staggers through the landscape, hears inner voices. Finally he returns to his old, abandoned and half-dilapidated tavern. “The sun's rays want to consume me…!” He shouts in his paranoia and crawls deep into the cellar. He lights a match to make it lighter, but in a fit of panic he drops the burning match, causing the straw lying around to ignite. Locked up in his own prison, it soon burns brightly. Matter wanders around in the crumbling, smoke-laden walls and shouts delusionally "The gluten of the sun want revenge!" The innkeeper can no longer escape, and the prediction comes true that the sun will take revenge on him for his crime.
Production notes
This is how the sun takes revenge was created in the spring of 1915 in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof and in the great outdoors around Berlin. The four-act act passed film censorship in July 1915. The premiere presumably took place immediately afterwards.
criticism
"The individual scenes of this drama are very well executed and contribute significantly to making the exciting plot even more exciting."