Almost
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Almost |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | approx. 58 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | NN |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| occupation | |
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A hair is a German silent film thriller from 1914 with Manny Ziener in one of the lead roles.
action
A Majorate ruler gets into a violent argument with his brother and then disappears without a trace. The brother is then suspected of having disposed of the brother and is arrested. A detective is charged with the case and finds out that the brother's pleading of innocence is correct. The detective goes in search of the missing person and can finally track him down. On the way there, the nose gets caught in one or the other trap; once he is trapped in a room, the floor and ceiling of which are hydraulically connected to each other, and in the final stage the prisoner between the walls can crush him. But only by a hair, as the film title suggests, because of course the detective is saved. Another exciting scene occurs in a mysterious mill.
Production notes
It almost came about in the Messter-Film-Atelier in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32 and had three files, spread over 1067 meters in length. The film passed the censorship in November 1914, was banned from young people and probably premiered a little later. A short time later there was probably a general ban on performance and it was almost a hair in the cinemas again in 1919.
criticism
"Elegant in tone, the main actors Holger Christians and Many [sic!] Ziener look very meritorious (...) at least one of the best detective films of this kind."