Storms (film)

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Movie
Original title Storms
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1913 (censorship)
Rod
Director Hans Land
script Hans Land, based on his own template
production German mutoskop and biographer
occupation

Stürme is a short, German silent film melodrama from 1913 with Friedrich Fehér .

action

Rudolf Boehmer lost his parents as a child and grew up as an orphan. He finds a new home with the farmer Lohnbach. In addition to the hard work, the boy also finds time for children's games with the two girls Male and Liesbeth. The brunette male is the miller's daughter, the blonde Liesbeth the farmer's daughter and at the same time his "sister". When the young man has to choose one of the two, he chooses Male, which in turn affects the gentle Liesbeth deeply. It withers internally and externally.

The adult Rudolf, who is married to Male, soon gradually works his way up; first he becomes a journeyman, and finally even a master. When the father-in-law, the old miller, dies, Rudolf takes over the mill. At the height of this happiness in life, new storms arise: this time in the form of a young miller's boy who soon casts Rudolf's wife under his spell. When Rudolf thinks that he has caught the two of them red-handed and the youngster then tries to run away, the new miller throws him a flower pot, which hits the fleeing man on the head and seriously injures him.

Thereupon Rudolf now has to search the distance himself and finds shelter with kind and helpful fellow men. The years passed and Rudolf was aging rapidly because of his grief and remorse. Soon he has become an old man who sneaks restlessly through the world and his life, until after many years he is drawn home to his old mill. His wife Male, who is also aged, does not recognize him, takes her husband for a beggar and hands him a piece of bread, which Rudolf, however, laughingly rejects.

Suddenly she sees who she has in front of her and asks him to come in. But the old man has lost touch with his past and refuses. None of your words can hold the restless one. He prefers to move on and just make it to the top of a mountain. From there he looks down sadly at his old home, the village where he was once happy, and dies lonely, believing that people cannot rebel against their fate.

Production notes

Stürme was created in the summer of 1913 in the Mutuskop studio in Berlin-Lankwitz and passed the censorship in September 1913. The premiere of this two-act was presumably before the end of 1913.

For the writer and later screenwriter Hugo Landsberger , this was probably his first contact with film and apparently his only directorial work. He chose the pseudonym "Hans Land" here.

criticism

“The picture has a strong effect because it moves along with undemanding sentimentality and everywhere has points of contact where the viewer sees his own memory and his own life fate running parallel. But this human life is also played excellently and Mr Féher, who is known as an excellent actor, has a great partner in Miss Ridon. This stylish interpretation also gives the drama a high level of importance, in which the staging has an equally large share. The director has prepared pictures for the photographer who finds a master of staging in their atmospheric beauty and dramatic force, in the simplicity of their structure and the happy choice of decorative naturalness. (...) The childhood scenes, the love bite, the miller's wife's adultery, the manslaughter after the discovery and the return of the beggar to his homeland are the highlights of the new film drama. "

- Cinematographic review of December 21, 1913. p. 98

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