Die Liebe der Maria Bonde
About Die Liebe der Maria Bonde
Frau Bonde lives with three daughters. Sickly Gunne is engaged to Martin Steinert. Both are circus riders. Martin loves the second daughter, Maria, and she loves him back. When Gunne is hurt in the ring at Circus Panelli, Maria takes her place in the dressage act. Maria and Martin marry and hide it. Frau Bonde catches them kissing. Gunne is told and dies of the shock. The mother gives in. After Maria has a child she cannot ride, and the youngest sister, Anella, goes into the act with Martin. Maria, afraid she will be replaced as Gunne was, poisons herself. Baron Fedja Bronikow of Sofia has also wanted Maria.
Cast & crew
More about Die Liebe der Maria Bonde
Emmerich Hanus directed the 1918 drama for Astra-Film of Berlin and plays Martin Steinert. Friedel Köhne wrote the script. Martha Novelly plays Maria, Paula Eberty Frau Bonde, Eva Maria Hartmann Gunne, Ursula Hell Anella, and Kurt Vespermann Baron Fedja Bronikow.
Themes
Making
Hanus directs and plays the rider who is engaged to one sister and married to another. The circus substitution is the scene that lets Maria and Martin perform together.
Preservation
A 50-minute print survives.
Notes
- The riding act is at Circus Panelli.
- Gunne and Martin are already a pair in the ring before Maria substitutes.
- The secret marriage comes out when the mother sees a kiss, not when a child is born.
- Anella, the youngest, inherits the act once Maria is pregnant.
- The baron from Sofia is a rival, not the man she marries.
Scenes
- Gunne is hurt at Circus Panelli and Maria rides the dressage act with Martin.
- Frau Bonde walks in on the kiss, and Gunne dies when she is told.
- Maria, watching Anella rehearse with Martin, poisons herself.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-die-liebe-der-maria-bonde)
