Une vie gaspillée - 1910
ABOUT THE FILM : Une vie gaspillée
Det Danske FilminstitutA Life Wasted
Year: 1910
An alcoholic father is a bit heavy-handed with his daughter. The laundress mother also wields a beater. She scolds the young girl, who reluctantly brings the clean washing to a customer. In the end the delivery lingers around a few drinks and some indecent proposals, so much so that the young scatterbrain doesn't return to the fold. Spoilt and wooed she quickly becomes a kept woman.
Nationality: Danish
Length: 7' 52"
Genre: drama
Sound: silent with soundtrack
Original elements: tinted
Composer: Eric Le Guen
Original language: French
A BRIEF HISTORY : Une vie gaspillée
Une vie gaspillée is a genuine tragedy, one that is dramatised and effective and whose intrigue shows very strict morality.
A young woman attempts to escape her position by rejecting honest toil. But easy money and romance don't last just like the beauty of our vamp. Her naivety takes her to the darkest misery, all the more so as her parents never forgive her for her bad behaviour.
This unidentified Danish film has been kept in its French version. The original title and the cast are unknown. It was probably distributed, maybe even produced, by the Continental Films Compagni created in Copenhagen in 1908. At that time Danish silent film was experiencing a genuine golden age and its productions rivalled those of a still budding Hollywood.
Business at Continental quickly flourished thanks to a few news films and feature length films. Unfortunately technical problems and inconclusive experiments on colour film damaged the company's financial health and it had to shut up shop in 1916.
