My Wife, the Movie Star
- Ossi Oswaldo: Ossi
- Victor Janson: Lachmann, Director General of the Film Society
- Hanns Kräly: 1 dramaturge of the company
- Paul Biensfeldt: 2 dramaturge of the company
- Julius Dewald: Baron Erich von Schwindt
- Max Kronert: Hortelportier Wastel
My wife, who is a German film actress silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from the year 1919. He is one of the lost films of the director.
Content
The film diva Ossi should play the leading role of simple maid in an Alpine film. The film is produced by Lachmann's company "Zeus". Since she does not like the set in a studio, it is moved to the mountains of Tyrol. There will be a conflict with the residents, who reject the filming.
Ossi meets meanwhile - dressed in her costume film as a maid - the Baron Erich von Schwindt, who wants to escape the city and marry a simple woman from the countryside. He falls in love with Ossi, corresponding in their costume to his ideal of a child of nature. Although the later reveals to him that she is a movie star, he marries her anyway. And also Lachmann would be at the end, as the Alps film is a great success.
Production
The shooting took place in 1918 in the Ufa - union studios Tempelhof in Berlin, Berchtesgaden and am Koenigssee instead. He had a length of three files on 1127 or 1084 meters, about 62 or 60 minutes.The first performance was on 24 January 1919 at the UT Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. From the Berlin police, the film in February 1919 (No. 42781 ) was declared -rated (No. 42781 ). However, the subsequent censorship on May 31, 1921 took him to a youth ban ( No 2405 ).
Criticism
The contemporary criticism was that Ossi Oswaldo would be equally in the movie as in real life: " The film diva Oswaldo ".
Herta -Elisabeth Renk wrote that it went to my wife, the actress " probably [ ... ] to the exchange of social and gender roles ": "The insignificant role of the pressure, the apparently harmless the films; exactly we knew the only if could find a copy of the lost film. "