To a Woman (1917)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | To a woman |
| Country of production | Austria-Hungary |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 78 minutes |
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| Director |
Hubert Marischka Ernst Marischka |
| script | Hubert Marischka Ernst Marischka |
| production |
Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky for Sascha-Messter-Film, Vienna-Berlin |
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About a woman is an Austro-Hungarian-German silent film melodrama by Hubert and Ernst Marischka with Magda Sonja in the title role, made in Vienna in 1917 .
action
Rita is a morally depraved woman through and through. She is married to Count Salzbach, but is not very particular about her loyalty. Behind her aristocratic husband's back, she ties up with his friend Otto, while she lies to her husband and tells him that she went to a milliner to try on. When Rita comes home too late for dinner, Count Salzbach asks the milliner in question, but she doesn't know anything. For some time now, the count has suspected that his wife is doing stupid things. And so he suggests a trip to the mountains to get her thinking differently and far away from any lovers. After some hesitation, Rita agrees. Arriving in the Alpendorf, she and her husband decide to go on a mountain tour with the mountain guide Sepp Reisenberger. Rita falls back into her old habits and ensnares the smart alpinist according to all the rules of female seduction. Soon she turned the alpine man's head so much that he no longer wants to know anything about his bride Burgl up on the Sennhütte, where the three day trippers spend the night.
The next day, Sepp is supposed to lead the count's couple up to the Teufelsspitze, a mountain. Sepp, who assumes that Rita has serious intentions towards him, has to pull the count on the rope through the wall to the top of the mountain in the last section. Rita takes advantage of this moment and hugs and kisses Sepp stormily, so that he can't help but let go of the rope. Count Salzbach falls into the depths and is killed in the process. The Reisinger-Sepp is then charged with murder. Due to a lack of evidence, the mountain guide is acquitted of the murder charge, but has to be behind bars for six months for negligent homicide. As soon as he is free again, his first path leads him directly to Rita, who Sepp believes will receive him with open arms. But she defends himself against his attempts to hug and pushes him away. When Otto suddenly enters, Sepp realizes that he was only serving as a means to an end. He wrestles the rival and locks him up in the next room. Then Sepp rushes at Rita, grabs a deer catcher and thrusts it right into the devil's heart. As if in a trance, the murderer staggered away from the crime scene and returned to the prison from which he had been released only a few hours earlier.
Production notes
A woman was shot in mid-1917 and shown for the first time on August 20, 1917 in the Neubauer Lichtspiele in Vienna. The mass start was on January 11, 1918. The four-stroke had a length of about 1,600 meters. Arnold Pressburger was in charge of production. For Magda Sonja this was one of her first feature films.
criticism
"Particularly noteworthy is the excellent direction, which brings magnificent nature shots from the alpine world, as well as the excellent acting performance of Hubert Marischkas, who plays the son of the mountains in unadulterated nature, and Magda Sonjas, who embodies the heartless woman extremely drastically. In every gesture this great actress reveals her high level of artistry, in every scene she keeps the audience in suspense as a demonic woman and remains a psychological mystery, even if the motive of her actions is clearly evident. "
Web links
- To a woman at The German Early Cinema Database
- To a woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- To a woman at filmportal.de