Little Angel (1914)
Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. Wearing a long, woman’s skirt, she climbs up a ladder and onto a thatched roof. She reaches over the top of the wall to kiss her boyfriend, who appears from the other side. However, Jesta is caught by the headmistress, and her forced descent is precipitous. Pulled downward, she reveals a great deal of a black-stockinged leg. She looks distinctly sexual as she falls into the matrimonly arms of the law, whose duty is to enforce the rules of female decorum.
Director: Urban Gad
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Asta Nielsen as Jesta |
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Alfred Kühne as Redakteur Schneider |
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Max Landa as Peter J. Schneider |
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Fred Immler as Theodor Schiebstaedt (as Fredy Immler) |
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Bruno Kastner as |
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Hanns Kräly as Hauslehrer |
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Adele Reuter-Eichberg as Meta Schiebstaedt |
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Martin Wolff as |
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Erner Huebsch as |
| Directing | Urban Gad | Director |
| Production | Paul Davidson | Producer |
| Art | Fritz Seyffert | Production Design |
| Writing | Urban Gad | Writer |
| Camera | Karl Freund | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Guido Seeber | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Axel Graatkjær | Director of Photography |
