dir:  Carl Th. Dreyer
pro: Otto Schmidt, Primus Film – Berlin
sc: Carl Th. Dreyer
zdj: Friedrich Weinmann
cast: Adele Reuter Eichberg, Wladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowska, Sylvia Torff, Torleiff Reiss, Johannes Meyer
dis: Dansk Kulturfilm (DFI)

“Love One Another” is set in Russia before and during the revolution of 1905. The main character is a young Jewish girl, Hanne-Liebe, who has felt the prejudice among the Russians since childhood. As the result of a cruel intrigue she is expelled from her school, and she travels to St. Petersburg where her brother Jakov, a wealthy lawyer, lives. A convert to Christianity, Jakov has been disowned by their father. Hanne-Liebe meets back up with Sascha, a revolutionary-minded student from her hometown, and they fall in love. Meanwhile, a police provocateur, Rylowitsch, tricks Sascha into preparing an act of revolutionary terrorism. The police arrest him and all his comrades, and Hanne-Liebe is deported to her hometown.

Dreyer based his film on a Danish novel, “Elsker hverandre” (“Love One Another”) (1912) by Aage Madelung. Striving for the greatest possible authenticity, Dreyer and his set designer, Jens Lind, travelled to Lublin in Poland, a city with a sizable Jewish population. They based the film’s exterior sets, which were constructed in Berlin, on the architecture there.

Elsker Hverandre / Love One Another (DE) 1922 b&w 105 min.