The Great Moment

In dem großen Augenblick

Germany

1911

32 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

Silent

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Asta Nielsen, Hugo Flink, Emil Albes, Max Obal, Eugenie Werner

In The Great Moment (In dem großen Augenblick) Asta Nielsen plays a starving young mother who gives up her child for adoption, then steals the child back three years later. “[The] story gives her opportunities to show a very physical expressiveness. [Her] aggressive, physical responses [are] reactions that seem natural to her but that are rarely seen in female characters.” (Janet Bergstrom) —http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

Director

Urban Gad

Peter Urban Gad (12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947) was a Danish film director. He directed 40 film between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films. Also in his debut the famous movie Afgrunden (The Abyss) from 1910. They moved to Germany in 1911 where Gad worked until 1922. —Wikipedia