Avant et...après
Weitere Titel: Vorher und Nachher (D, Ö)/ Before and after (UK, USA) - Szenario: Max Linder - Länge: 140m - s/w - Interpreten: Max Linder {Bräutigam}; Marguerite Montavon {Braut}; Léonie Richard {Schwiegermutter} - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 3242/Dez.09 - Auff.: 10. Dezember 1909 (Wien/ Gisela-Theater)
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Die Komödie zeigt den Umschwung in einer Ehe, in welcher der Bewerber "vorher" seine zukünftige Schwiegermutter mit Sorgfalt und den zärtlichsten Aufmerksamkeiten überhäuft, in der Hoffnung die Tochter zu erobern. Aber "nachher" ändert sich das Bild. Schwiegermama überhäuft am Hochzeitsabende die jungen Gatten mit ihren Ratschlägen, sodaß diese, um endlich allein zu sein, in die Küche flüchten müssen. Ein Jahr später ist die Sache vollkommen unhaltbar geworden und die Schwiegermutter ergreift nach einem Wutanfall den Schwiegersohn an seinem Hosenboden und versenkt ihr Gebiß in die fleischigsten Teile ihres Opfers. (Der deutsche Lichtbildtheater-Besitzer, 6.1.1910/Katalog Pathé)
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"Before and after" means before and after marriage. The picture shows how a young man treats his mother-in-law before and after he has been declared in on the family. If the man is important enough in this picture to be billed then he should be billed in all the Pathe pictures, for he is the principal in all their comedy subjects. He is very apt and a clever comedian. This mother-in-law thing is the oldest on record for comedy purposes. The picture is fairly funny in parts and amusing throughout, but still it has those awful Pathe interiors, and they are hopeless. Dash. (Variety, 19.2.1910)
• Eine Kopie des Films wird verwahrt in: Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
Weitere Filmbeschreibungen/Kritiken:
This is an exceedingly amusing little comic piece in which Mr. Max Linder disports himself with almost more success than usual. The theme treats of the difference in the manner of an engaged young man towards his mother-in-law before and after marriage. As may be imagined, this gives opportunities for innumerable humorous situations, all of which are taken the fullest advantage of. Especially clever is the lady who supports Mr. Linder as the mother-in-law, and together they render the amusement of this little farce quite irresistible. (The Bioscope, Dec. 16th 1909)
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The first scenes of this comedy film are more delicately humorous than the last. A young suitor for the hand of a fat old lady's daughter very wisely devotes his attention to the mother, to that old lady's great joy. After marriage it is different. He tries to avoid the mother-in-law while he makes love to the wife. A year later we see them at open war, which ends in the young husband being obliged to jump out of the window to escape the mother-in-law's wrath. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, Feb. 19th 1910)