Die Insel der Seligen (1913)
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Directors
Max Reinhardt, Paul von Schlippenbach
Cast
Wilhelm Diegelmann, Willy Prager, Gertrud Hackelberg, Lore Wagner, Werner Lotz, Ernst Hofmann, Friedrich Kühne, Ernst Mátray, Mary Dietrich, Erika de Planque, Greta Schröder, Leopoldine Konstantin
Two young girls pursuing young men flee their disapproving fathers for an island inhabited by mythological beings.
The story
Two young girls seek out young men and quickly find success, but their fathers disapprove. The fathers have already chosen marriage candidates for their daughters, and consider two of their bachelor friends, who play skat with them, suitable matches. The girls flee by rowboat to an island inhabited by gods, nymphs, fauns, and water devils. The young men follow them, and soon the fathers arrive too, accompanied by the bachelors. The story’s initial conflict is the girls’ pursuit of their own romantic interests against their fathers’ plans for them.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Two young girls are looking for young men and quickly find success. Their fathers disapprove, since they have already chosen marriage candidates for their daughters themselves. In their view, two of their skat-playing friends, both still bachelors, would be suitable matches. The girls flee in a rowboat to an island inhabited by gods, nymphs, fauns, and water devils. The young men follow them, and soon the fathers arrive as well, along with the bachelors. The gods, and Amor in particular, play all sorts of games and pranks on the humans, bringing the young couples together. Circe turns the fathers into little pigs, and at the end they leave the island at the rear of a triumphal procession.
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