Villa Falconieri (film)

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Movie
Original title Villa Falconieri
Country of production Germany , Italy
original language German
Publishing year 1928
length about 90 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Oswald
script Alfred Halm
production Richard Oswald (Berlin)
Stefano Pittaluga (Turin)
camera Giovanni Vitrotti
occupation

Villa Falconieri is a German-Italian silent film from 1928 by Richard Oswald based on a literary model by Richard Voss (1896).

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Count Cola Campana, a young poet, rented the beautiful Villa Falconieri near Rome because he wanted to be close to the beautiful and flirtatious Princess Sora, with whom he was in love. Their possession is exactly opposite. Poor Maria Mariano lives in the tenant house, suffering from the harassment of her husband Vittorio, who is just as rough as he is careless and addicted to gambling. Mariano had once bought the villa from a man who was also addicted to gambling and in debt, in the hope of being able to use the rental income to finance his passion for gambling. Count Cola's presence is a blessing for Maria, as she finds understanding and consolation in him. Her hope that the Count might fall in love with her, however, is deceptive; Campana's heart belongs to his princess, even if she only sees cola as an amusing pastime.

When Vittorio once again loses everything at a wild game of games - after all, he even appoints his own wife - the situation comes to a head dramatically. Totally desperate, Maria flees to Cola and asks for help. Mariano wants to get her back by force, but Count Cola tries to prevent the very worst: Maria is passed on to the drunk who wins her. When Mariano now wants to start a duel with the poetic nobleman, Maria throws herself between the two and is stabbed by her nefarious husband. Badly injured, the woman sinks down while Mariano, pursued by the police, flees. On his escape he ends up in a quarry, where he falls into the depths and is killed in the process.

Maria is now free and Cola takes care of her until she is finally cured. But Maria also has to realize that the feelings that she thought were love only meant Count Cola's pity for her, a woman who had been tortured by her husband. For Maria Mariano this realization comes like a club. Not up to this situation, Campana runs over to his blonde princess. She drives past him laughing with her husband, with whom she has just made up. Only now it dawns on the young poet that the high nobility only played with his feelings. Count Cola is now on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and it is up to Maria to take care of him until he too has to realize that both are meant for each other.

Production notes

The six-act film shot in the vicinity of Rome (exterior shots at Villa Falconieri ) as well as in the Berlin Jofa studios and in Turin studios passed the German film censorship on September 20, 1928 and was shown on November 12 of the same year at the UFA pavilion on Nollendorfplatz premiered. The 2266 meter long film was banned from young people in Germany. The Italian premiere took place in March 1929.

The in this country completely unknown Eve Gray (1900-1983) (role of the snooty Princess Sora) was a British actress who was committed to Germany in 1928 for three films. The film structures come from Heinrich C. Richter .

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