The End of Loving

Country

Austria-Hungary

Copyright

1913

Production year

1913

Premiere

17 October 1913

Runtime

23 min

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Konec milování

Czech title

Konec milování

English title

The End of Loving

Synopsis

Irena loves Fred and wants to get married as soon as possible. Fred also wants to get married. The problem lies in the fact that Irena is rich and Fred is deep in debt, so deep that he cannot even to afford to pay his chauffeur or his tailor. Nonetheless, Fred does have a lover, Lolotta, who creates a huge scene when she reads the announcement of Fred's engagement to Irena in a magazine Fred calms her down with a cynical promise that, after his wedding to Irena, he will finally have enough money to fulfil all Lolotta's wishes. A friend leaks word of Fred's illicit relationship with Lolotta to Irena. Irena does not want to believe it, but later decides that she must find out for herself. In disguise she is hired as Fred's chauffeur and soon afterwards finds that her friend was telling the truth. And when Fred takes Lolotta on a drive she drives them off the edge of a cliff in her despair. All three of them perish in the accident.

Note

The final scene was shot with the help of a car model produced at the Czech-Moravian Car Factory.

Cast

Alois Sedláček

rodinný přítel

Ema Kronbauerová

přítelkyně Ireny

Růžena Havelská

starší přítelkyně Ireny

Václav Nykysa

šofér

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Max Urban

Production info

Original Title

Konec milování

Czech Title

Konec milování

English Title

The End of Loving

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama

Origin country

Austria-Hungary

Copyright

1913

Production Year

1913

Premiere

premiere 17 October 1913 (kino Minuta /1 týden/, Praha)

Production

ASUM

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

ASUM

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

23 min

Original length in metres

650 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33

Colour

tinting, black & white

Sound

silent

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech