The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin
- Lupu Pick: Liidecke
- Hedwig WANGEL: Auguste, his wife
- Maly Delschaft: Margot, whose daughter
- Werner Pitt Look: Karl, whose son
- Hans Adalbert of Schlettow: Flottmann
- Albert Florath: William Lemke
- Evi Eva: Anna, his daughter
- Hugo Fischer- Koppe: Oscar Hampel
- Karl Falkenberg: Tramp
Content
A cold winter in Berlin. The stubborn old cab driver Liidecke refuses to join the change from the old horse-drawn carriage to the automobile. His business is bad and his wife Auguste evokes the unteachable, nevertheless please go up a 12-cylinder. Liidecke is being stubborn. He does not want to part with the old, in comparison to the new time leisurely pace, his horse and cart and his Klepper Liesken. The son Karl to Liidecke business one day take over and guess how bad the father would react if he wanted the company rather than continue with an automotive taxi with a horse and cart. Liidecke daughter Margot is betrothed to the taxi driver Flottmann, they want to marry. Liidecke but is against the marriage.
Flottmann buys a clock with a fence for Margot as a gift. The stolen property is found in his possession and Flottmann must be justified to the police. Flottmann says he did not know that it was a stolen item. Margot obtained her father 's consent, that they may marry Flottmann, it turns out his innocence. The fence shall be taken and questioned and released Flottmann. So the marriage with Margot Flottmann nothing stands in the way.
Liidecke's son Charles has secretly made his driver's license. He is ashamed of his father and tries to hide the document in front of him. Liidecke is irritated by the good humor of the unemployed son and makes him the license. Liidecke says to his son: " I did not think that you're capable of it. "
Liidecke is the wedding of his daughter away and dawns attention to his coach box and then in a bar in front of him. In drunk he sits back on his cab. Finally there comes a customer. The customer is not fast enough going on Liidecke and he opts for a motorized taxi that passes straight. Liidecke's wrath is kindled and he wants to catch up with the automobile taxi by horse and cart. He loses control of the cab and travels to the frozen river Spree. He falls off the wagon seat and hits the ice. His son Flottmann rescues him and brings him home.
In the end, the family finds a friendly solution: the taxi company Liidecke and Flottmann merge and Liidecke can get involved with his horse and cart.
Background
The film was from December 1925 to January 1926 shot in Berlin. The main activity director and producer in the 1920s leading man Lupu Pick produced the film with his production company Rex movie itself. Pick sat as a director a the experienced Carl Boese. The film was intended as a follow-up project of The Last Man, whose screenplay Carl Mayer had originally written for Lupu Pick. Lupu Pick would direct the film, and even to play the lead role of doormen, the then embodied under the direction of FW Murnau's with great success Emil Jannings. The Liidecke is a cab driver this porter related figure, who can no longer perform to the satisfaction of his boss his work from old age and toilet man - is degraded - the last man.
Quotes
Lupu Pick called The last cab of Berlin " a naturalistic slap expressionist snobs ".