Max, professeur de tango

Max is doing the Tango with Miss Leonora in a Berlin night club. Being impressed by the performance a german Baron asks him to give his family a dancing lesson. In the course of the evening Max gets drunk and is still fighting his hangover when he arrives at the Baron's house the next morning. Before the lesson Max asks them to follow his every move. But because of his condition he is making the weirdest gestures and all ends up in a great turmoil. What makes this 'Max Linder' film special is the fact that it was filmed in Berlin, the city I live in. Max can be seen in familiar places, before the Brandenburg Gate, the Parliament Building, the Palace and on a busy Berlin street. These location shots were taken on Max's tour through Europe in July 1912. The final film was apparently not released until June 1914 and only a few weeks later France and Germany were fighting each other in the trenches of World War I.

Max makes an excellent drunk, but the material lets him down here as he tries to give a tango lesson to a German family while still suffering from a heavy night. Shot during Linder's 1912 tour of Europe, the film benefits from a number of shots of him in famous Berlin locations.