Stone among stones

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Movie
Original title Stone among stones
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1917
length approx. 59 (in Vienna) minutes
Rod
Director Felix Basch
script based on the play by Hermann Sudermann
production Paul Davidson for PAGU, Berlin
music Alexander Schirmann (compilation)
occupation

Stein unter Steinen is a German silent film from 1917 by Felix Basch based on a template by Hermann Sudermann .

action

The talented stonemason apprentice Jakob Biegler in a rage kills his landlord and has to go to prison for the next five years. When he is released again, Biegler struggles to find employment. Finally, the good-natured master stonemason Zarncke shows himself ready to find him a post as a night watchman. Biegler's difficult path from prison back to bourgeois life finds its crowning glory when he meets the waitress Lore Eichhorn, who is a great support to him in moments of desperation.

Production notes

The film made in the Union studio in Berlin-Tempelhof had a prelude and three acts . After the film censorship passed in December 1916, a youth ban was imposed. The world premiere took place the following month. In Austria, Stein unter Steinen was also shown in cinemas in 1917. There it was around 1200 meters long.

  • Film music:

In 1917, cinematograph no. 529 published the musical list that Kapellmeister Alexander Schirmann had written for the film.

criticism

In Paimann's film lists you can read: “The material is very dramatic and just as good as the game and photos. Weaker in the end. "

Hermann Sudermann had the film shown to him on December 21, 1916 and wrote about it in his diary on the same evening:

"Biegler is so miserable as a dog that [I] jump up angrily in the middle of the performance and romp around - a Herr Bildt who played the role in the Schiller Theater 8 years ago and whom [I] never saw - further viewing a torture, that's why [ I] gone. ""

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prelude and 3 acts, read in: Ludwig Greve (Ed.): If I had the cinema! The writers and the silent film. An exhibition of the German Literature Archives in the Schiller National Museum Marbach a N. (= special exhibitions of the Schiller National Museum. Catalog No. 27). Kösel Verlag, Munich 1976, OCLC 1053637302 , p. 49.
  2. ↑ Stein unter Steinen in Paimann's film lists ( Memento from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ quoted in Greve

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