Sondi (movie character)

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Sondi was the main character in a series of comic short films that the actor and operetta singer Emil Sondermann shot in Berlin between 1915 and 1916 in his own company, "Sondermann-Films GmbH.", With himself in the title role. For some he also wrote the manuscript. The director was Ludwig Czerny . In the aftermath z. Well-known actors like Helene Voss , Paul Westermeier and Manny Ziener .

The series began in 1915 with two reelers :

  • 1915: Sondi is unlucky
  • 1915: Sondi's luck in misfortune

and expanded into three acts in 1916:

  • 1916: Sondi's dark point
  • 1916: Sondi, Amor and Co.
  • 1916: Sondi's little one

The films were banned from youth by the Berlin police license. “Sondi has bad luck” was explicitly not allowed to be performed during the war.

After 1916, Sondermann turned to longer feature films, u. a. with more serious objects and gave up the film character Sondi.

literature

Paolo Caneppele: Decisions of the Tyrolean film censorship 1919–1920–1921: with an index of films banned in Tyrol from 1916–1922. Film Archive Austria, 2002. ISBN 978-3-901932-11-3 - 284 pages.

Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association (Ed.): The Moving Picture World, Volume 28. Publisher: World Photographic Publishing Company, 1916.

Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre . München, Edition Text + Critique 2007. ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Wedel p. 184 Note 257: "The Sondermann-Films GmbH belonged to the actor Emil Sondermann from the Thalia-Theater, who always played the leading role in the Sondi series."
  2. cf. Wedel p. 128, there also photo.
  3. this is mentioned in an article in the American journal Moving Picture World No. 28 (1916) on p. 431: "Comedy is represented by a laughable film with Emil Sondermann, Addy Romberg and roguish Manny Ziener in" Sondis dunkler Punkt "(Sondi's Dark Point)."
  4. GECD # 34311, also manuscript; Sondermann Films No. 1
  5. GECD # 34313, also manuscript; Sondermann Films No. 2
  6. GECD # 34312; Sondermann Films No. 3
  7. GECD # 34310, “not suitable for young people”, cf. Caneppele p. 95
  8. GECD # 34314, also manuscript
  9. censorship no. 15.44 “Forbidden for the duration of the war”, cf. GECD # 34311
  10. cf. for example Bruno Eichgrün's “Women who break marriage” (1922) or Richard Oswald's “Lützow's daring hunt” (1927)