Ultimo (1913)
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| Original title | Ultimo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 49 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Oberländer |
| production | Oskar Messter |
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Ultimo is a German silent film drama from 1913 with Erich Kaiser-Titz in the title role.
action
Garrick and Seabert are two punters. Your main field of speculation is the grain trade. While Seabert is experiencing a tremendous bull market, things are going far worse for Garrick. With Seabert's massive purchase of all grain supplies, which catapults the price up, Garrick is insolvent at the end of the day . Seabert takes advantage of Garrick's bottleneck mercilessly: he demands all the money to be paid to him that day if Garrick's daughter Helen refuses to become Seabert's wife. But Helen loves the lawyer Johnson. But she finally agrees to marry the unloved Seabert in order to save her father from the dilemma.
Seabert is a dealer and collector through and through, and so in addition to Helen as a presentable wife, there are also various other women, including an opera singer and the educator of the son Helen gives birth to. Helen grudgingly accepts her faithless husband's affairs outside the home, but the one in her own four walls, i.e. the one with the governess, with whom Seabert openly exchanges kisses, she is not ready to tolerate and therefore wants to throw that young lady out at the next opportunity. Because this impertinence of her husband causes Helen's heart palpitations, whereas she swallows morphine drop by drop. When she has to watch her husband come out of the governess's room in disgust, she pours the entire supply of morphine into a glass in a mental absence. Her husband, having barely arrived in the marital bedroom, obviously takes the filled glass for water and swallows it all down.
Seabert does not survive this overdose, and Helen is charged as a spouse murderer. The testimony of the adulterous teacher incriminates her. The lawyer Johnson then contacts Helen and takes over her case. His examinations relieve the young widow. Then there is a major fire in the Seabert villa, in which the governess is seriously injured. As she dies, she confesses her false testimony. Helen is acquitted and can finally become Mrs. Johnson after all.
Production notes
Ultimo was created in the Messter-Film-Atelier at Blücherstraße 32, passed the film censorship in November 1913 and was premiered on February 13, 1914. In Austria-Hungary, where the film was 968 meters long, Ultimo was shown from March 6, 1914. The three-act had 35 subtitles and was originally 1016 meters long, after the new censorship in February 1921 it was only 904 meters.
criticism
“The new exhibition film 'Ultimo' is a first class work in the genre of sensational social drama. Photographically and artistically, with splendid furnishings, the representation is supported by the ingenious staging art of Doctor Hans Oberlander. With an artistically highly educated actor's material, something can be done and so a very interesting drama in the film emerged from the very good scenario. (...) Pretty images of society, interesting stock market scenes and the great fire in the villa in the third act stand out from the exciting plot. "