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Der Herr der Welt

Master of the World

Germany 1934
produced by
Harry Piel for Ariel-Film
directed by Harry Piel
starring Siegfried Schürenberg, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Franck, Walter Janssen, Aribert Wäscher, Willi Schur, Klaus Pohl, Oscar Höcker, Max Gülstorff, Otto Wernicke, Hans Hermann, Karl Platen, Arthur Reinhardt, Ernst Behmer, Wally Filatoff, Liselotte Hessler, Dolly Raphael, Erika Wehrle
written by Georg Mühlen-Schulte, Harry Piel, music by Fritz Wenneis

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Dr Heller (Walter Janssen) runs a company that has just taken up the production of work robots for all purposes, especially mining. But the head scientist of Heller's company, professor Wolf (Walter Franck), wants more, he has created the ultimate war robot. Heller disapproves of this, he wants to create robots for the good of mankind, not for destruction, and orders Wolf to dismantle the war robot - but Wolf instead has his robot kill Heller, and he manages to make the murder look like an accident, too ...

Baumann (Siegfried Schürenberg), foreman at a local mine, has met Heller on an airplane, and was fascinated by the man's ideas but also the humane spin Heller has given to things. So when he learns Heller's robots are starting work at his mine, he is overjoyed ... until he learns using robots means laying off the entire staff. He complains to Heller's board of directors, since this have not been Heller's original intentions, but to no avail ...

Baumann has one ace up his sleeve, though, only a short time ago and completely by chance he has made the acquaintance of Heller's widow Vilma (Sybille Schmitz), and she has grown quite fond of him - and she still owns her husband's shares in his company. Of course the board of directors tries to buy her out, figuring her to be a major stumbling block in the expansion of the company, which is long controlled by professor Wolf of course. Baumann dissuades Vilma from signing over her shares - and thus, eventually, Wolf takes her hostage in his lab, and when Baumann comes to the rescue, Wolf releases his war robot on both of them. But Baumann and Vilma somehow manage to make an escape, the robot turns on his master due to a malfunction, and in the finale, the whole factory blows up sky high.

Ultimately, and with Vilma's help, Baumann has taken control of the company, and he sees to it that all the workers laid off due to Heller's robots will be beneficiaries of the company's increased gains ...

 

A film that certainly features some interesting (political) ideas and some great (for their time) robot-effects - and you can tell the directors fascination with these things -, but somehow the storytelling comes off as a bit heavy-handed (as is often the case with German movies from the early talky era), suffers from a too slow pacing, and the extended happy ending after the finale derives the finale of some of its effect. Still, a perfectly interesting early science fiction film.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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