The Film Prima Donna
About The Film Prima Donna
Film star Ruth Breton, while seeing Walter, takes up with Von Zornhorst. He drops her, and she wastes away. Walter writes her a play as a last gift. In the last act of Pierrot's Death, Ruth dies. Asta Nielsen plays Ruth. Paul Otto, Fritz Weidemann, and Fred Immler are billed. The German title is Die Filmprimadonna.
Cast & crew
More about The Film Prima Donna
Urban Gad wrote and directed it. Paul Davidson produced it. Axel Graatkjær and Karl Freund photographed it. It opened on 6 December 1913. Wikidata times it at 17 minutes. A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Themes
Look
Axel Graatkjær and Karl Freund photographed Nielsen as the film star.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The play inside the film is Pierrot's Death.
- The Internet Archive identifier is silent-the-film-primadonna.
- Freund is a cinematographer here, not yet a Hollywood director of photography only.
Scenes
- Ruth dies during the last act of the play Walter wrote for her.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-film-primadonna)
