Rushed to death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rushed to death |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1912 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Urban Gad |
| script | Urban Gad |
| production |
German Bioscop for PAGU |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
| occupation | |
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Chased to death , subtitled Dramatic Big City Sketch , is a German silent film in three acts by Urban Gad from 1912. It is one of the director's lost films.
action
Architect Ernstein is unhappily married. Although his wife has money, she does not love him and is also not interested in his work. Even when he was awarded an honorary diploma for one of his works, she was disinterested. Ernstein's clerk, Paula Müller, on the other hand, is enthusiastic about the work of her boss and uses every opportunity to study his architectural drawings unobserved. Ernstein takes a liking to Paula and they both spend a Sunday together, go on a trip and eat together in a hotel. The next day, Mrs. Ernstein found out from friends that her husband and Paula had disappeared in a hotel the day before. Jealously she obtains Paula's dismissal, destroys the excellent job reference issued by Ernstein for Paula and also enforces the termination of Paula's apartment from Paula's landlady, as Paula is not a decent woman.
Paula has to move out and soon finds a furnished room to rent. However, her new address is passed on to Ernstein's wife again from her old landlady, who can now continue to haunt Paula with her hatred. She prevents Paula's employment as a typist by slandering Paula in front of the new employer, and can also get the new landlord to quit Paula before she has moved into her new apartment.
Paula is pregnant by Ernstein. She visits the architect one last time, tells him about her pregnancy, but does not want to accept his money. She says goodbye to him and then falls to her death from the roof of a department store.
production
Rushed to death was created within a week in the late summer of 1911 in the Bioscop studio in Berlin-Neubabelsberg. It was after The Black Dream , In the Big Moment , Gypsy Blood , The Strange Bird , The Traitor , The Power of Gold and Poor Jenny, the eighth and last film in the Asta Nielsen / Urban Gad series 1911/12. It is based on a dramatic city sketch by A. Grezinger.
On March 2, 1912, the censors were hounded to death with a youth ban. It had its premiere on April 13, 1912 in Berlin. No surviving copy of the 985 meter long film is known.
literature
- Rushed to death . In: Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann (Ed.): Nachtfalter, their films . Volume 2 of Edition Asta Nielsen . 2nd Edition. Filmarchiv Austria publishing house, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902531-83-4 , pp. 71-74.