Four Films with Asta Nielsen - 2-DVD Set ( Die Suffragette / Das Liebes-ABC / Das Eskimobaby / Die Börsenkönigin ) ( The Suffragette / The ABC of Love / The Eskimo Baby / The Queen of the Stock )

Four Films with Asta Nielsen - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Suffragette / Das Liebes-ABC / Das Eskimobaby / Die Börsenkönigin
Alternate Title: The Suffragette / The ABC of Love / The Eskimo Baby / The Queen of the Stock
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
244 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1913 - 1916 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Urban Gad
Magnus Stifter
Heinz Schall
Edmund Edel

Written By:
Urban Gad
Martin Jørgensen
Louis Levy
Edmund Edel

Actors:
Asta Nielsen ..... Nelly Panburne
Max Landa ..... Lord William Ascue
Charly Berger ..... Mutter Panburne
Fred Immler ..... Vater Panburne
Adele Reuter-Eichberg
Mary Scheller
Herr Schroot
Asta Nielsen ..... Lis
Ludwig Trautmann ..... Philip von Dobbern
Magnus Stifter ..... Graf von Kiesel
Asta Nielsen ..... Eskimo Ivigtut
Freddy Wingardh ..... Knud Prätorius
Asta Nielsen ..... Helene Netzler
Aruth Wartan ..... Lindholm, Bergwerksdirektor
Willy Kaiser-Heyl ..... Chief Inspector Muller

Synopsis:

This 2-disc DVD set shows the versatility of silent diva Asta Nielsen: She fights for Women's rights in Die Suffragette, speculates successfully at the stock market in Die Börsenkönigin, and shows off as an adolescant woman in male attire and as an Eskimo woman in the comedies Das Liebes-ABC and Das Eskimo-Baby. Four rare films in newly restored and reconstructed versions for the first time available on DVD.
The Suffragette, directed by Urban Gad, Germany 1913 (61')
The ABC of Love, directed by Magnus Stifter, Germany 1916 (50')
Scores by Maud Nelissen
12 page trilingual booklet
The Eskimo Baby, directed by Heinz Schall, Germany 1916 (70')
The Queen of the Stock, directed by Edmund Edel, Germany 1916 (63')
Scores by Maud Nelissen

The Suffragette (1913)
Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
The ABC of Love (1916)
Comedy about Lis and boring fiancée Philip. Luring him to Paris she dresses up in men's clothing to go about town. Lis' arriving father discovers her plot and after trial and tribulation Lis finally marries Philip.
The Eskimo Baby (1916)
Young Polar Explorar brings Eskimo Ivigtut to his parents in Berlin. After experiencing Western culture, she finds herself pregnant but the explorer comes to her rescue.
The Queen of the Stock (1916)
Mine owner Helene has a crush on the manager. He is however, enamored with Helene's cousin Lina.

IIn DIE SUFFRAGETTE (THE SUFFRAGETTE, 1913, director: Urban Gad), Asta Nielsen plays the Englishwoman Nelly Panburne. Through her mother, Nelly comes to know the suffragette movement and joins it. In the course of the film Nelly must undergo a crucial test in the conflict between her political convictions and her love for Lord Ascue, the bitter opponent of the suffragettes. The characters of Nelly Panburne and her mother are based on Christabel Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline Pankhurst, who in 1903 founded the Women's Social and Political Union, an organisation that fought for women's right to vote with public protests and hunger strikes. The name suffragette derives from "suffrage," the political right to vote. The film DIE SUFFRAGETTE was submitted to the censor by the Berlin police headquarters on the 2nd of September 1913 and was passed without cuts, though forbidden to young audiences. In Munich, however, police headquarters demanded cuts. Urban Gad responded by withdrawing the film from distribution in Bavaria.
While, in DIE SUFFRAGETTE, Asta Nielsen played a young woman captivated by a significantly older man, in DIE BÖRSENKÖNIGIN (THE QUEEN OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE, 1913, director: Edmund Edel) she is an accomplished woman. As a speculator in shares, the queen of the stock exchange commands the market in copper but happiness in love eludes her. Nielsen's acting is as different as the two women she plays. In DIE SUFFRAGETTE she is untypically restrained as the young Englishwoman from a good family, but highly dramatic in DIE BÖRSENKÖNIGIN. The comedies DAS LIEBES-ABC and DAS ESKIMOBABY, the screenplays of which were written by the team of Louis Levy and Martin Jørgensen, are also fine examples of Asta Nielsen's facility for transformation; both showcase her delight in grotesque physical comedy.
The first minutes of DAS LIEBES-ABC (THE ABC OF LOVE, 1916, director: Magnus Stifter) show Asta Nielsen as an adolescent, expectantly caressing a drawing of an impressive gentleman endowed with a moustache and a proud look. How disappointed she is when the one chosen for her is revealed to be a shy and inexperienced youth! With no further ado she decides to initiate him into the ABC of love in Paris, for which purpose she herself dresses up as a man. Devastatingly, and yet still with delicate nuance, Asta Nielsen projects masculine mannerisms, deconstructing gender roles in the process. The Erste Internationale Filmzeitung (19 August 1916) recognised this: "Das LIEBES-ABC gives Asta Nielsen the opportunity to show herself off in a trousers role. She knows how to caricature a tipsy young bon viveur brilliantly."
In Heinz Schall's DAS ESKIMOBABY (THE ESKIMO BABY), also filmed in 1916, though not premiered till the spring of 1918, Asta Nielsen can again be seen in a "trousers" role. This time, however, the break with the conventions of fashion is based not on the expectations and stereotypes of gender roles, but on differences of culture. Asta Nielsen is Ivigtut, an Eskimo female brought back to Berlin by an explorer from an expedition to Greenland. Ivigtut is an attraction, but she may not appear at an evening party, because her fur pants are socially unacceptable. In her childishly naive dealings with the accomplishments of modern industrial society, Asta Nielsen again pulls out all the stops. The Kinematograph wrote in 1918: "Nielsen's acting is overwhelmingly comic, every scene appears thoroughly thought out, the exploitation of each type of situation is the best example of the mastery of all the opportunities afforded by screen acting."

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