The German silent drama Das goldene Kalb/The Golden Calf (1924) by Peter Paul Felner has an all-star cast with Henny Porten, Albert Steinrück, Olga Engl, Rosa Valetti, Angelo Ferrari, Colette Brettel, Johannes Riemann and the Russian actor Ossip Runitsch. However, the postcards by Ross Verlag all focus on Henny Porten, and her love interest in the film, the Italian Angelo Ferrari.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/1. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/2. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924). The woman on the left is Rosa Valetti.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/3. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
In Das goldene Kalb/The Golden Calf (1924), the female owner of a large fortune should, according to the wishes of her father, leave only one of her two grandchildren - two boys - the entire property. The woman decides to give the whole heir to one grandchild.
Then she is tormented by a vision and sees the granddaughter of the other, disadvantaged grandchild will once grow up as an orphan. The girl will fall into the hands of an unscrupulous adventurer and end up on the gallows.
To prevent this terrible fate, the old lady now decides to favour the other grandchild. But this decision proves to be fatal in a second vision: for now, the grandson of the disinherited will become a criminal and also land under the gallows.
The testator decides, therefore, against the desire of her own father, to the only true, Solomonic solution: she divides the heritage, the 'golden calf', into two equal parts and thus follows her sense of justice.
Das goldene Kalb/The Golden Calf was shot in the autumn of 1924. The exterior shots were taken near Dürnstein. Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle created the film sets. Eugen Kürschner was the location manager.
Das goldene Kalb passed the film censorship on 15 December 1924. It premiered on 30 January 1925, in Vienna, where it was banned from schools. The German premiere took place on 17 April 1925, in the Alhambra cinema on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm.
Paimann's Filmliste states: "The subject is interestingly worked in the swift direction, the presentation in all roles very well, Henny Porten especially in some scenes of the first action interesting, where she managed to get rid of the usual template. Mise-en-scene and photography are solid work, the latter noteworthy, especially in the beautiful outdoor scenes near Dürnstein.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/4. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/5. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/6. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
Sources: Wikipedia (German), Filmportal.de, and IMDb.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/1. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/2. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924). The woman on the left is Rosa Valetti.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/3. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
Dividing the Golden Calf in two
In Das goldene Kalb/The Golden Calf (1924), the female owner of a large fortune should, according to the wishes of her father, leave only one of her two grandchildren - two boys - the entire property. The woman decides to give the whole heir to one grandchild.
Then she is tormented by a vision and sees the granddaughter of the other, disadvantaged grandchild will once grow up as an orphan. The girl will fall into the hands of an unscrupulous adventurer and end up on the gallows.
To prevent this terrible fate, the old lady now decides to favour the other grandchild. But this decision proves to be fatal in a second vision: for now, the grandson of the disinherited will become a criminal and also land under the gallows.
The testator decides, therefore, against the desire of her own father, to the only true, Solomonic solution: she divides the heritage, the 'golden calf', into two equal parts and thus follows her sense of justice.
Das goldene Kalb/The Golden Calf was shot in the autumn of 1924. The exterior shots were taken near Dürnstein. Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle created the film sets. Eugen Kürschner was the location manager.
Das goldene Kalb passed the film censorship on 15 December 1924. It premiered on 30 January 1925, in Vienna, where it was banned from schools. The German premiere took place on 17 April 1925, in the Alhambra cinema on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm.
Paimann's Filmliste states: "The subject is interestingly worked in the swift direction, the presentation in all roles very well, Henny Porten especially in some scenes of the first action interesting, where she managed to get rid of the usual template. Mise-en-scene and photography are solid work, the latter noteworthy, especially in the beautiful outdoor scenes near Dürnstein.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/4. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/5. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 593/6. Photo: Westi-Film, Berlin. Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari in Das goldene Kalb (Peter Paul Felner, 1924).
Sources: Wikipedia (German), Filmportal.de, and IMDb.
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