Das Eskimobaby

Germany

1917

62 Min

Black and White

Silent

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Martin Jörgensen, Louis Levy

CAST Asta Nielsen, Freddy Wingardh

Synopsis

Asta Nielsen plays an Eskimo girl introduced by an Arctic explorer into the vastness of his aristocratic home. “The Eskimo Baby is funny enough to rank beside the best of American silent comedy. It provides a vehicle for Nielsen’s most successful type of comic character, the outsider who invades a stuffy, middle-class world and promptly sets about puncturing inflated pretensions.” (R. C. Allen) —http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

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Eva Fools Around

16May13

and btw, i think this is less a derisive sketch of a savage, than a mild, funny "clash of civilizations", much like montesquieu's persian letters. how can one be an eskimo? how can one be a european?

Eva Fools Around

16May13

what a giulietta masina smile ! this and and the willingly boyish clumsiness of her behaviour in this film make me wonder if there is any conscious influence masina borrowed from the play of asta nielsen. maybe it's just me after all.