"THE JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS OF MOTHER KRAUSE restored in 1957 from a version made by Otto Nagel for the State Film Society of the GDR with new intertitles." "It had an original length in 1929 after censorship of 2,846 m (125 minutes)." "It is now missing 451 m (20 minutes)." "The basis for the reconstruction by the Filmarchiv of Munich was the original script." "Only incomplete copies and fragments of the original film exist." "Immediately after the premiere, the film was shortened and altered." "The new reconstruction lasts 133 minutes; the rest of the film is lost." "The journey to happiness of Mother Krause" "Dedicated to the great man and artist, Prof. Heinrich Zille" "Direction and camera:" "Piel Jutzi" "According to a story by Heinrich Zille, reported to his friend, Otto Nagel and adapted for film by Dr. Döll and J. Fethke, in collaboration with the Prometheus group." "The filming was done, mostly, in the same places where Heinrich Zille found the reasons for his works." "Act 1." "shadowy world of servants and slaves ... the slum quarters of the rentals without sunlight ... the dusty street of the rest ... poor with faces of the disturbed, the distressed ... workers emaciated, invalids, empty, with sunken eyes, blind ..." "Drunken babbling ..." "Soulful ... gray on gray ... bleak ..." "Berlin N. Weidling" "There lives:" "The sublet ..." "Gerhard Bienert" "Mother Krause's daughter ..." "Ilse Trautschold" "The girlfriend of the boarder, a prostitute ..." "Vera Sacharowa and her daughter ..." "Fee Wachsmuth" "Mother Krause ..." "Alexandra Schmitt" "What is this nonsense?" "Come on and help me deliver the newspapers." "Old iron, bottles, paper!" "Rags!" "Bones!" "I wish I had rags now!" "Mother Krause and her daughter put the newspapers into a baby stroller and go to a backyard." "Both put a lot of newspapers under their arms and disappear through two doors." "They're back to let us rest." "Mother Krause's son ..." "Holmes Zimmermann" "Man, that's one stylish garment." "I will give this to my girlfriend for a Sunday blouse." "Mmm ..." "Today hot food!" "Where's your jacket?" "Mother Krause, is it true that there are people who eat hot meals every day?" "The lodger walks by the door, but does not eat:" ""No, today I had a good client invite me."" "She gives money to the boarder, but it is a coin and" "Mother Krause's daughter asks: "Are you coming to the show?"" "She nods and both, delighted, leave the room." "Mother, I need a mark." "I left my jacket downstairs in the tavern." "Well, soon they will have your fingerprints!" "End of 1st." "Act." "Act 2." "I want Paul to get his jacket back." "Well, mother, leave, he's a good boy, just a little superficial." "This was given to me by your Uncle Pelle." "(Uncle Pelle = Santa Claus, to circus people)" "This was done in jail." "My father has been inside." "The whole world is a prison." "The worker, Max ..." "Friedrich Gnas" "What do I do with this?" "Well, give it to your girlfriend!" "Nago, the man beast." "Nago, the man beast, eats only straw and glass shards." "Mother Krause's daughter and Max leave for the show and sit on a park bench." "The image shifts to a room with the woman and the man from the show, who places 3 marks on the table." "We have to fix you up, mother, for when he arrives." "That's not worth much." "But we can use them as witnesses for our wedding!" "How, you'll marry Frieda?" "Yes, the wedding will be next month!" "This place needs a woman's touch!" "fantastic story." "WOMEN IN THE SOCIAL STRUGGLE" "Wow, you're washing your legs?" "Yes, tomorrow I go with Max to the baths." "I had to ask Paul to help me collect the money from the newspapers this morning." "If you keep looking, you will have a permanent squint." "My husband believes in sex education   But you cannot tell the kids, as he always becomes rude." "End of Act 2." "3rd Act." "Come, let's go drinking!" "Waiter, a round!" "The bill!" "It's the money from the newspapers ... it belongs to my mother!" "Tell that to someone else!" "I will sit over there opposite the bar." "To Paul's health!" "The old lady is at home, waiting." "Your house ... ..." "Come, have one with us!" "My beer's only on me!" "You're talking a lot of nonsense ... the old woman is waiting for you." "I do not care for her!" "Where's the money from the newspapers?" "Pig!" "You should have looked away in shame!" "Good night!" "Still not back?" "Let's look at the bar ... or in that den of scoundrels." "What the ... what ... what is going on?" "Leave me alone with Paul!" "Where is Paul?" "He wasn't here at all last night!" "Hoodlum!" "Why, Uncle Paul!" "Where were you all night?" "Mother is very sad today." "I've done a lot of nonsense!" "I dare not come up to face mother" "Please tell her that they gave me my coat!" "Mother, Paul is here!" "End of 3rd." "Act." "4th Act." "Max is late for the civil registration for marriage that the couple hopes to witness." "An official appears." "Paul and other stand by the window of a delicatessen shop:" ""If I knew that my stomach would have to endure," "I'd buy half a pound of that, if I had money."" "The shop owner insists:" ""It is not good publicity for me."" "Congratulations to the newlyweds!" "A poem ..." "Look, mom, she is eating a sixth piece!" "You have done some fabulous shopping." "That would have cost me at least two months wages." "We dance ... the crown of virgins   out of violet-blue silk." "Aren't you afraid of the wedding night?" "Tonight I would like to be a mouse." "Leave the girl alone; she is my girlfriend!" "Why do you get excited?" "Did you think the girl was waiting for you?" "What do you mean?" "Stupid, I fucked her before you did!" "What are you saying about my daughter?" "Shut up, old bawd, you yourself got me into bed with her." "Is it true?" "I am here, keeping up the whole lot of you and ultimately not getting anything for it!" "The atmosphere is heavy." "I'm leaving!" "I am moving out on the first of the month." "I don't have anything more to say here." "Don't make a scene;" "let the jerk go." "Where are you going now?" "You know!" "No. .. not today!" "End of the 4th Act." "5th Act." "Poor animal ... here he has no air or sun." "Pawn Shop NORTH" "Receipts here" "The accounts are due before Tuesday" "This is not enough money!" "I lost the rest!" "How did you lose it ...?" "Your Paul drank it!" "The accounts must be closed in an hour." "If I don't have the money, I will dismiss you and have you put in jail!" "In the grocery store Mother Krause asks the shopkeeper:" ""I'm so embarrassed, but I have always paid on time," "Could you lend me a couple of marks?"" "When she saw see the face of rejection at one place, she knew he had to try somewhere else." "Mother ..." "Is it true?" "Paul?" "Has he drunk the money from the newspapers?" "Our Paul would not do that!" "Could you lend me 20 marks?" "Paul ... and then ..." "How much do you need?" "Well, it's a bit much!" "So what?" "What good will that do?" "A couple of days in the slammer as usual!" "Maybe it will be a good rest for you." "So, is it true?" "Come, I have to have a word with you." "Bad luck!" "So you can help your mother!" "You are wrong if you blame the girl!" "What else can you expect, people crammed like animals into a small space ..." ""You can kill a man with an apartment just as with an ax."" "(Heinrich Zille) (German graphic artist (1858 - 1929))" "You're such a good child, you'll let your mother go to jail, when you could help." "Just be nice to him and he will give you the money!" "E. Lehmann" "E. LEHMANN" "How much?" "My mother needs 20 marks!" "That's a bit much!" "No, things are not so easy!" "End of the 5th Act." "6th Act." "Max!" "He went out." "I think he went to the demonstration." "we demand worthy housing for people" "Working Women, think of your son!" "Women unionists, unite!" "Max!" "We are in a demonstration!" "Now you are all set." "... Paul has done so much nonsense!" "I can't tell you, maybe tomorrow!" "A fantastic story." "Now, put on another face!" "Ticket for entrance to the garden festival of the "Savings Association of the Bankrupt." Entrance 50pf including taxes" "Shouldn't we take mother?" "She would like to get out and people watch." "Prussian Court of First Instance Berlin-Central" "But mother, you're not ready?" "Prussian Court of First Instance Berlin-Central" "I'm so happy ..." "In the autumn we will be married!" "I have to go ..." "The girl and I have to go to bed!" "Paul got drunk with the money from the newspapers" "Mother cannot pay her bills for the newspapers." "Why didn't you tell me before ...?" "Tomorrow morning we'll fix it." "End of the 6th Act." "7th Act." "Are you crazy, making such a fuss?" "Leave that shit!" "Man ..." "Don't ever ... shoot!" "Police!" "Housebreaking!" "I wanted to fix everything!" "Do not get discouraged, as happiness comes every day." "Poor creature, what have you done to lose in this world?" "Come travel with Mother Krause  To happiness." "Oxygen" "You have to hold me firmly." "END"