Recaptured

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Movie
Original title Recaptured
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1913
length approx. 34 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Oberländer
production Oskar Messter
occupation

Rückerobert is a German silent film from 1913 with Ernst Reicher .

action

When the banker's wife Erna von Woermann listens to the sounds of the piano virtuoso Heinz Dehne in the concert hall, she is downright delighted and asks her husband to be allowed to take lessons from the pianist. Although Dehne does not generally give private lessons, he can be softened in this case. During the first lesson in the Woermann house, he also met her daughter and the blind father-in-law. After this first lesson, Dehne realizes that the piano student is beginning to interest him more than is actually appropriate. A little later the banker receives from his friend, an ophthalmologist, Dr. Staerk a letter, according to which an eye operation on the blind father promises hope for a cure. The operation is indeed successful and the old man regains his eyesight after eight days. When the doctor informed Woermann by phone, he immediately called his wife. The old house servant Max wants to get Madame on the phone, when the latter surprises when Frau von Woermann and the pianist embrace tenderly. The servant, who has known his master since childhood, decides to tell the banker the whole truth. He quotes the servant to confirm what he has seen. Then both go to the clinic, where the seeing father is still lying, to get some advice from him.

He gives some wise advice, according to which he initially assumes that the house servant Max has misinterpreted what he has seen. Since his daughter-in-law did not know anything about his successful eye operation, he wanted to use his "blindness" to keep a close eye on Erna. If she had any improper contact with the pianist, he would immediately inform his son so that he could take the appropriate action. Said and done. As a stumbling “blind man”, led by a St. Bernard , Woermann's father lets himself be led into the piano room and asks if he could listen to the piano exercises of the two. One affirms, and while the old man stares "blindly" into the void when he feels observed, he observes the two closely when they act carelessly and unsuspectingly. In fact, he has to watch how Dehne hugs Erna tenderly. Then he hears a car pulling up and his son gets out. The old man, led by the dog, leaves the room and tells his son what he has seen. Father and son sneak into the salon and secretly watch from there how Erna and her pianist continue to shamelessly. In his emotional exuberance, Dehne even booms: "I would give my life for you with joy!".

Since Woermann does not want to lose his wife, but rather convert her - i.e. recapture her - father and son go into the music room, where the two present pretend that nothing has happened. When the piano teacher wants to say goodbye, the banker asks him to stay for a glass of wine. His wife also drinks a glass, whereupon her husband of the gods exclaims with mock seriousness: “The wine was poisoned, you only have two hours to live! Since your friend wants to give his life for you with joy, he should drink the rest so that you can die together. ”After this horror that he spread, Erna's husband secretly leaves the music room to get from the salon with his father to observe the progress of the scenery. Erna is extremely confused and shaken and, in her confusion, hands the rest of the wine to Dehne, who, however, pushes the woman away from her. Your glass falls to the floor with a clang, and the pianist leaves the house as quickly as he is pale as chalk. Her “blind” father-in-law comes into the room and brings Erna to her daughter to comfort her. The mother hugs her goodbye, but then runs into her boudoir to shoot herself there for fear of death from poisoning. In her panic, she climbs into psychosomatic pain and wants to write her husband a few lines of farewell in which she confesses her love only to him when her father-in-law, now officially seeing, enters her boudoir. He snatches the revolver from her, and when her husband enters, the situation clears up, to everyone's pleasure.

Production notes

Reconquered was made in the Messter film studio in Berlin's Blücherstraße 32, passed the censorship on April 3, 1913 and probably saw its premiere a little later. The length of the two-acter was 625 meters.

criticism

“Messter made a very nice comedy out of society:“ Recaptured ”. Not a bad recipe that is given. Don't always rush to the door when you catch the woman paying more attention to the piano teacher than the exercise on the keys demands. But the film also urges caution. The blind can see too. (...) Lia [sic!] Lind plays the erring woman with a lot of temperament and acting skill. The "blind" father-in-law is the pastor from "Pastor's Daughters", not an everyday actor either. The staging is excellent. A really very good film. "

- Cinematographic review of June 15, 1913. p. 24

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