Too late (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Too late |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | approx. 43 (Vienna 1913) minutes |
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| Director | Carl Froelich or Hans Oberländer |
| production | Oskar Messter |
| camera | Carl Froelich |
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Too late is a medium-length, German silent film from 1913 with Harry Liedtke and Martha Angerstein .
action
The focus of the plot is a young woman and a young man. She is just about to take her teachers' exam, he, obviously a student of technology, is about to take his exam. Both discover their feelings for one another, walk hand in hand through the park and confess their love to each other on a bench. But the young woman's father is not ready to let him hold his daughter's hand. He gives the student the advice: “Go out into the world first. Become something, marriage is a question of money! ”This creates the decisive rift in both relationships. Then another woman steps between the two, who is expecting a child from the studiosus. This woman is not his great love, however, but the prospective teacher advises him to marry the girl, because: "She carries your child under her heart."
25 years have now passed. The formerly young woman is now careworn and wrinkled in the face and does her job as a teacher with body and soul. She never married. It is celebrated for its quarter of a century, but the teacher has always missed something in her life: love. A letter gives her cause for great joy: her childhood sweetheart wrote it. He is now widowed and wants to visit her. And he wants her - finally! - marry. Her beauty is reflected in his eyes, according to a passage in his letter. However, the bliss on her face quickly gives way to disenchantment when she looks in the mirror and sees a tired, scornful woman. But that's not how the teacher wants to appear before his eyes. She runs into the park to the bench on which the two once confessed their love.
Her childhood sweetheart comes to her hometown and does not find her at home. He too is magically drawn to the park bench, but the two had had their time; and it's over. Both feel it, and the teacher is sure that she doesn't even want to marry this man anymore. You talk to each other in a friendly way, then she says goodbye to him. He also had different expectations from the reunion, but he has to accept that it is better that way. To reconcile the memory of that time with today, as he recognize as you do, is an impossibility. It is too late. On the way home, the teacher dies of a heartbeat, schoolchildren find the dead lying under a green bush.
Production notes
Too late , a film produced by Messter's Projection GmbH (Berlin) was shot in 1912 or 1913, depending on the source, passed the censorship test in July 1913 and was probably premiered in the summer of the same year. The film only had two acts. The premiere in Austria-Hungary was scheduled for September 12, 1913. There was too late a length of 782 meters.
The production of the film cost 890 marks . If Carl Froelich directed it, this was his first cinema production.
criticism
“Excellent work on ingenious art of staging. A fine, well thought-out act that involves the smallest of details. (...) If you want to see a simple, atmospheric life story that calls to mind at least one minute of your own life in each and every one of them, then this picture is best suited. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The sources give different names. Since Gerhard Lamprecht's “German Silent Films”, Carl Froelich has mostly been mentioned, while contemporary sources such as the Cinematographische Rundschau from 1913 mention Hans Oberländer.
Web links
- Too late at filmportal.de
- Too late in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Too late at The German Early Cinema Database