Henny Porten in Tragödie (1925)
German postcard. Ross Verlag, Berlin, No. 41/3. Henny-Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in the German silent drama Tragödie (Carl Froelich, 1925). Left, Robert Garrison, who plays a publisher, Pickart.
Plot: Countess Maria Porten), a world famous stage performer, is blackmailed by a former lover, a frivolous stage poet (Robert Scholz). The ex-lover threatens to publish former love letters. When she visits the man to claim the letters, a wild bacchanal is going on at the house, which compromises the countess. Her husband, Count Tamar (Walter Janssen) divorces her and dumps their child (Annemarie Winkler), accorded to him, in a convent. Maria's reputation is lost, so she is refused any stage engagement. Physically and mentally broken, she collapses. Just when a friend tells her where her child is located, she dies without seeing her child again.
Tragödie was one of the typical melodramas with Henny Porten, tormented by male evildoers from her shady past, who are keen on spreading slander and wrecking her well-to-do and aristocratic happy family life, while husbands are blunt and unforgiving. And often children are victims of the situation. From 1924 Porten, her husband Wilhelm von Kaufmann, and producer director Carl Froehlich, ran the Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion with which they 15 many comedies and tearjerkers between 1924 and 1929. Tragödie was scripted by Walter Wassermann and Fred Sauer, while cinematography was by Axel Graatkjaer and sets by Franz Schroedter. The film had its premiere at the Berlin Primus-Palast cinema on 30 November 1925.
Source: Corinna Müller, 'Filmographie, in Helga Belach, Henny Porten. Der erste deutsche Filmstar 1890-1960 (1986).
Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and a not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.
Henny Porten in Tragödie (1925)
German postcard. Ross Verlag, Berlin, No. 41/3. Henny-Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in the German silent drama Tragödie (Carl Froelich, 1925). Left, Robert Garrison, who plays a publisher, Pickart.
Plot: Countess Maria Porten), a world famous stage performer, is blackmailed by a former lover, a frivolous stage poet (Robert Scholz). The ex-lover threatens to publish former love letters. When she visits the man to claim the letters, a wild bacchanal is going on at the house, which compromises the countess. Her husband, Count Tamar (Walter Janssen) divorces her and dumps their child (Annemarie Winkler), accorded to him, in a convent. Maria's reputation is lost, so she is refused any stage engagement. Physically and mentally broken, she collapses. Just when a friend tells her where her child is located, she dies without seeing her child again.
Tragödie was one of the typical melodramas with Henny Porten, tormented by male evildoers from her shady past, who are keen on spreading slander and wrecking her well-to-do and aristocratic happy family life, while husbands are blunt and unforgiving. And often children are victims of the situation. From 1924 Porten, her husband Wilhelm von Kaufmann, and producer director Carl Froehlich, ran the Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion with which they 15 many comedies and tearjerkers between 1924 and 1929. Tragödie was scripted by Walter Wassermann and Fred Sauer, while cinematography was by Axel Graatkjaer and sets by Franz Schroedter. The film had its premiere at the Berlin Primus-Palast cinema on 30 November 1925.
Source: Corinna Müller, 'Filmographie, in Helga Belach, Henny Porten. Der erste deutsche Filmstar 1890-1960 (1986).
Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and a not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.