PROGRAMM 12: MELODRAM 2

]]>Der Treuebruch]]> (1917, schwarzweiß, dt. Zwischentitel)
Regie: Karl Gerhardt
Drehbuch: Erwin Baron
Kamera: Josef Zeitlinger
Darsteller: Hermann Romberg, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Erwin Baron, Erika Wagner, Julius Strobl, [Anny] Hacker, Margarete Witzmann, Hans Götz
Produktion: Fabrikationsabteilung der Zentralstelle der Feldkinos / Filmstelle des k. u. k. Kriegspressequartiers (Wien)
35mm/stumm
72 Minuten

Fraternal strife at the Leisthofer’s. When two men court the same woman movie plots become dramatic. ]]>Der Treuebruch]]> tells of the fate of two brothers who fall out over the love of a woman. As the action unfolds we see jealousy, exotic locations, a snakebite, a curse, the death of a wife in childbirth and typhoid. “You can’t get more sensation than that in five acts”, was one critic’s laconic appraisal of this morality play. A welcome distraction from wartime reality.

Music: Andreas Schreiber (Geige, u.a.), Fabian Pollack (Gitarre, u.a.)