White Lilies (1913)
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| Original title | White lilies |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 69 minutes |
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| Director | NN |
| script | Toni Sylva |
| production | Vitascope film |
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White Lilien is a German silent film melodrama from 1913 with Toni Sylva in the leading role.
action
Lene Lehr is a woman who enjoys life at every stage. Their home is the ballrooms and their addiction to entertainment is considerable. When one day she met the innocent youth Egon, for the first time superficial pleasure gave way to sincere feeling. Egon loves Lene too, but he doesn't know about her past life - that she is, as they say, a “woman with a past”. Because Egon seriously believes in a future together with the married woman, he demands a divorce from her. Lene doesn't know what to do and doesn't want to pour her youthful lover any pure wine, so she lies to him that she has to go on a longer journey with her husband. She quickly returns to her old life, the nocturnal joys and debauchery in the ballrooms.
When she met Egon again one evening, who thought she was still traveling, a catastrophe ensued. Disappointingly, he turns away from her and retires to his estate. When Lene, whose health has been compromised by her lottery life, reads about the ex-lover's upcoming engagement, she sends all of the love letters he had once sent to his future bride to prevent the engagement. Lene's plan works, the engagement does not take place. Deeply hit by his bride's retreat, Egon returns to the big city gears of Berlin and, like Lene once, sinks into the nighttime entertainment of the metropolis. When Egon and Lene meet again there, they reconcile. But Lene is feeling the consequences of her way of life more and more and does not want to part with her ugly act of having broken her young happiness apart. She brings Egon and his ex-fiancée back together. The reunited couple lay white lilies on their deathbed as a token of their devotion to Lene's corpse.
Production notes
White lilies , was created in the Vitascope studio in Berlin's Lindenstrasse 32–34. The three-act film with a length of 1275 meters passed the film censorship in April 1913 and was premiered on May 9, 1913.
criticism
“Kind of a lady of camellias. The main actress, Toni Sylva, has already made herself known in the drama “The woman without a heart”. A pretty, elegant appearance that one believes the ballroom luminary. Not an everyday actress either. (...) The film is elegantly made and very well staged. "
Individual evidence
Web links
- White lilies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- White Lilies at The German Early Cinema Database
- White lilies at filmportal.de