The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach
- PORTEN Luise Rohrbach
- Emil Jannings: William Rohrbach, her husband
- Ludwig Trautmann: lawyer Rüting
- Rudolf Biebrach: headmaster
- Klara Berger: his wife
- Frieda Richard, mother of the slain
The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach is a German Stummfilmmelodram from the winter 1916/17 by Rudolf Biebrach. The main roles Henny Porten and Emil Jannings play a married couple.
Action
The teacher Louise Taden was actually warned as she was about to marry her fiancé, the manufacturer Wilhelm Rohrbach. For he was recently sentenced to three days in jail after he had beaten one of his workers. On the wedding day of two it finally comes to disaster: Luise is tackled in front of a jewelry store by a strange man, breaks Rohrbach's brutal nature of his course - he strikes the stranger to death. For this attack, a court sentenced him to three years in prison for manslaughter.
Despite emerging strong alienation her new husband over, Luise Rohrbach uses for it and may obtain in the interaction with his lawyer Rüting in the resumption of the case a sentence reduction to ten months. However, Louise's antipathy towards Wilhelm is strong and increases without limit as he seeks after his dismissal in her apartment. Here he tried to take by force after she has refused him.
Rohrbach seeks revenge and tries to take away her child together. Soon Luise Rohrbach sees only one way to get rid of the unloved husband: She claims that the child was not his but the result of infidelity. Thus they condemned an adulteress and that is why in court. After serving a short sentence of three days and completed divorce from Rohrbach she is the wife of lawyer Rüting.
Production Notes
The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach was established in December 1916 and January 1917 at the Messter film studio in the Blücherstraße 32 The four-act film was listed on 2 February 1917 at the Mozart Hall in Berlin for the first time.
Ludwig Kainer designed the Filmbauten.
Criticism
When Oskar Kalbus is to read about Henny Porten power: " One must not forget that the Porten did not come from the speaker stage and therefore in addition to the main stage artists of their time basically had a hard time even a drama school has not seen them Nevertheless held. . they brave, and we will never forget the trade as one of the first Janningsfilme " the Marriage of Luise Rohrbach " was not overwhelmed by the incredible mimic power and art of Jannings in 1916, but a great, tragic antagonist was. "
In Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene it means to Robert Wiene's manuscript: " Wiene scenario used in the construction of plots, the classic love triangle with a cultured, sensitive woman, a brutal, unfeeling husband and a civilized gentleman both as a trial lawyer before Court defended and a devoted, loving husband. One of Wiene's favorite themes, the justice system is here spread out in three ways: in dynamic scenes in court, in prison and in the offices of lawyers. In any case, the legal system undergoes little praise. Luise Rohrbach achieved its freedom from her husband rather in spite of rather than because of faulty legal decisions, is then merged with their child again and married a better man. "