Little Angel

Overview

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. Wearing a long, woman’s skirt, she climbs up a ladder and onto a thatched roof. She reaches over the top of the wall to kiss her boyfriend, who appears from the other side. However, Jesta is caught by the headmistress, and her forced descent is precipitous. Pulled downward, she reveals a great deal of a black-stockinged leg. She looks distinctly sexual as she falls into the matrimonly arms of the law, whose duty is to enforce the rules of female decorum.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 3, 1914

Original language

German

Countries

Germany

Production

Projektions-AG Union

Cast

Asta Nielsen,Alfred Kühne,Max Landa,Fred Immler,Bruno Kastner,Hanns Kräly,Adele Reuter-Eichberg,Martin Wolff,Erner Huebsch

Director

Urban Gad

Writer

Urban Gad

Producer

Paul Davidson

Cinematography

Karl Freund,Axel Graatkjær,Guido Seeber

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0003884