One Does Not Play with Love
- Werner Krauss: Prince Colalto
- Lili Damita: Calixta
- Erna Morena: Florence, former opera singer
- Maria Paudler: Amina, ballet dancer
- Egon von Jordan: Eugene Lewis
- Karl Etlinger: Mr. Lewis, industrialist
- Mathilde Sussin: Mrs. Lewis
- Artur Retzbach - Erasiny: Nepallek, Hofmobiliardirektor
- Oreste bilancia: friend
- Gustav Czimeg
- Thala Birell
Do not Play with Love is a 1926 German silent film published by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. It is a film adaptation of the 1834 stage play written On ne pas avec l' amour badine by Alfred de Musset. The film is considered lost.
Action
The film is set in Viennese society at the time of Emperor Franz Joseph and deals with the turmoil of love of three persons: The aging prince Colalto, caught quite the conservative- monarchical, falls in love Calixa. It is domestic bred, her father works as equipment manager of the Imperial and Royal House. The third man is the young Lewis, son of an upstart who has earned his wealth as an automobile manufacturer. It presents the modern world with colorful advertising advertising of the Group. This includes the soubrette Amina and her friend Paris, who enjoy life in the hotel, dance the Charleston and so present the modern city life as opposed to the conservative, aristocratic world of the imperial monarchy.
Production
Do not Play with Love was filmed from August to September 1926. The film enjoyed its world premiere on November 10, 1926. From the 3038 -meter-long movie no extant copy is known.
Originally Pabst had wanted to make a film about the mutiny of the imperial navy in Kiel. Since the Phoebus at the time of the War Ministry received secret subsidies, which was intended to finance patriotic films - which led to a scandal after discovery - remained unrealized Pabst's film project. Instead, he turned to Phoebus Do not Play with love.
Criticism
"So much delicacy, so much pure, neat order in feeling things went long gone on a canvas ," was the contemporary criticism. The film treats his subject with " noble [ m], substantial [m ] Ernst ".
Other critics called the film a "costume harmlessness " and referred to him in retrospect as " to indisputable failure due to the inept casting of Werner Krauss - hardly a romantic type - as the old gentleman opposite Lily Damita, who Lacked The Necessary innocent, virginal qualities. "