Unspeakable
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| Original title | Unspeakable |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | approx. 55 minutes |
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| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script | Hans Brennert |
| production | Paul Davidson for PAGU |
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Inexpiable is a German silent film drama by Georg Jacoby in 1917 with propagandistic undertones. Adele Sandrock can be seen here in one of her early film roles as the mother of two sons.
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It tells the fate of a mother and her two different sons who went different ways in the First World War in order to work for the “glory of their fatherland”. While the older son reports to the front, the younger goes to an ammunition factory. There, however, he soon came under the influence (branded as perishable in history) of a man posing as a fighter for workers' rights who incited him and his colleagues to strike.
This strike now leads to the fact that the other son and his comrades have considerable problems with the ammunition supply, and their lives are therefore exposed to the greatest danger. After all, for this very reason, the soldier's brother fell into the field. Only now does the younger brother recognize his mistake and wants to make atonement for what he did by reporting to the front. Instead, the old mother takes the vacant space at the lathe in the ammunition factory.
Production notes
Uns atonement was created in mid-1917 on the Tempelhofer Feld. The three-act play with a length of 1133 meters passed the film censorship in July 1917 and was probably premiered a little later.
Thematically not entirely dissimilar was the propaganda film "Mères françaises" with Sarah Bernhardt in the mother role , which was shot at almost the same time by France, the enemy of the war . In contrast to the film Unsühnbar , which was almost exclusively intended to strengthen the combat morale at home and among German soldiers, the French film struck an extremely hateful tone against the war opponent Germany.
criticism
The Cinematographische Rundschau called Unsühnbar and the 1917 BUFA film Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders, “two masterpieces from Jakoby's direction”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinematographische Rundschau of October 6, 1917, p. 88