Meyer from Berlin
- Ernst Lubitsch: Sally Meyer
- Ethel Orff: Paula, his wife
- Heinz Landmann: Harry
- Trude Troll: Kitty, his fiancee
Meyer from Berlin is a German silent film in three acts by Ernst Lubitsch from the year 1918.
Content
Sally Meyer can take sick leave by their GP and at the same time prescribe a long vacation. Not least, he wants to take a break from busy married life and continues to Berchtesgaden, where he met the beautiful Kitty at the hotel. While the betrothed, but uses the flirt with Sally to keep as all the other men of the hotel from the neck who want to go out with her. Both climb the watzmann, with Sally turns out to be a poor climber. Both spend the night in a mountain hut.
Paula Meyer, Sally's wife, became suspicious and puts himself to Berchtesgaden, where she met Harry on the train. This in turn is the fiancée of Kitty. Both know that Sally and Kitty mountaineering are gone and give chase. Before nightfall, the two flee to a shelter, where already Sally and Kitty sleeping in disguise - Paula and Harry did not recognize the couple.
The next morning brings chaos and Erklärungsnot. In the end, Sally returns with his wife back to Berlin and also Kitty and Harry have found each other again.
Production
The shooting of Meyer from Berlin took place in the Ufa studios Union Berlin -Tempelhof and the watzmann and surroundings in summer 1918. The film premiered on January 17, 1919 U.T. Nollendorfplatz premiered in Berlin.
Meyer from Berlin was still in the 1990s as missing or as not completely preserved, but was going in the Dutch Film Archive under the title Sally rediscovered traveling. The TV premiere was on 5 May 1995 on the channel Arte.
Robert L. Carringer and Barry Sabath wrote in 1978 before the rediscovery of the film, that occur in the film Ossi Oswaldo as teenagers and Erich Schoenfelder when her father and Ernst Lubitsch as an apprentice. After the rediscovery of the film but this could be corrected.
Criticism
Contemporary critics praised Meyer from Berlin:
"The film is, from beginning to end Lubitsch. Not only because he plays the comic heroes and the hilarious plot eventually revolves around his person, but because no one, as he has grasped the meaning and possibilities of film comedy. [ ... ] The tireless, incessant eingesprenkelte joke fails at any point, it allows him to spice up every scene of minor evolution in action. Admittedly may arise much title; but they are so short, poster adhesive, striking, that they - always well rehearsed - just like lightning aufzucken and not only leave her wit, the impression of the interim title. So here, too: and so certainly was the main success of the film Lubitschschem wit and Lubitschscher direction technology. Of course, the action was nice devised and undoubtedly built quite original. "