Crazy existences
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Crazy existences |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1924 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edmund Linke |
| script | Walter Taken |
| production | Willy Althoff |
| camera | Paul Hummel |
| occupation | |
Crazy Existences is the title of a German film drama from 1924.
action
The depraved Hans von Gleichen is sent to America. On the crossing he seduces a girl whom he then abandons. Your child, Anita, is adopted as a child by the old peer, the uncle of the seducer. Years later, Hans von Gleichen returns home a broken man and destitute and ends up in asylum for the homeless.
That same night, the same old man died of a heart attack just as a trio of burglars, Emil, Mieze and Max, broke into his villa. In the face of the dead, the criminals flee so as not to be suspected of murder. Emil and Mieze go abroad. Max hides in the asylum for the homeless and just manages to turn a blind eye to the dying peer after the latter has entrusted him with his papers. In possession of these papers, Max gained access to the family of the deceased count as Hans von Gleichen. Finally he marries Anita. He begins a dissolute life that brings him together with Emil, whom he takes into the count's house. Anita leaves her husband when he refuses to protect her against Emil's intrusiveness.
Mieze, who became a "lady" abroad and, like Emil, made a living from gambling, becomes the bride of a fashion house owner. Anita finds a job in the same fashion house. She soon gains the trust of her boss and thus comes into conflict with his bride, who sees her as a rival. On a business trip accompanied by her boss, Anita meets her former husband, whereupon she immediately leaves her position. Mieze, driven by jealousy, has followed her bridegroom and meets Anita on the train. There is an exchange of words between the women, in the course of which Emil also appears, pursues the kitty and slams her down. After the fact, he jumps out of the moving train and finds death in the process, not without first having admitted the act and unmasked Hans von Gleichen as Max. As a result, Anita, who was initially arrested on suspicion of murder, is released again and, since Mieze is no longer in her way, she can marry her fashion house owner.
Production and censorship
The film was produced by the Willy Althoff-Film Berlin company. Siegfried Wroblewsky created the buildings . It had a length of six files at 2,056 meters, about 82 minutes.
The film was presented to the film inspection agency in a length of six files at 1,765 meters. The result was a ban (No. 9049). After a shortening of 46 meters to 1,719 meters, the film was checked again. The ban was confirmed again (No. 9095). A complaint was then lodged with the film inspectorate. Since the film was changed again, the film inspection body was unable to examine the changed film again and therefore decided again on a ban.
According to the German Film Institute, the film suddenly had 2,081 meters before and 2,056 meters after it was submitted to the film inspection agency on December 1, 1924. This time the film was admitted with a youth ban (No. 9418).
As a result, the film was extended by around 11 minutes. The censorship here did not consist of a shortening, but of an extension, presumably to insert scenes that leave enough space for the representation of equivalent values. This is precisely what is criticized in the censorship report: "Equivalent values are completely absent, as the test center correctly states, in the picture strip."
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator, frame rate: 22
- ↑ List of censorship reports at the German Film Institute
- ↑ Censorship report of October 14, 1924, page 4, paragraph 3
Remarks
- ↑ The detailed table of contents comes from Ernst Seeger (1884–1937), deputy head of the film inspection department and is taken verbatim from his censorship report of October 14, 1924. Only obvious typos have been corrected.