Cordula (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Cordula |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Gustav Ucicky |
| script |
Max Mell Gustav Ucicky |
| production | Paula Wessely-Filmproduktion GmbH, Vienna |
| music | Joseph Marx |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| cut | Henny Brünsch |
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Cordula is an Austrian film drama by Gustav Ucicky from 1950. It is based on the epic poem Kirbisch by Anton Wildgans .
action
The small village of Übelbach in 1917: The war has been going on for three years and waitress Cordula is particularly concerned. She loved the forester Fleps, who is now at the front. She confesses to the pastor that she visited him some time ago while on leave from the front in Vienna . Now she is pregnant, which she wrote to Fleps. She has not heard from him since. The pastor encourages her. Fleps appears unexpectedly in the village; he can only stay one day. He is an ensign and shows off his deeds at the front in the inn. Glaser Crinis slaps him because he has lost his two sons at the front. Fleps wants to report Crinis to the gendarme Kirbisch, but only his wife Kathe is at home. Fleps flirts with Kathe. Then he returns to the inn, where Cordula is waiting for him. Both speak out. After the end of the war, Fleps wants to take responsibility for the still unborn child, even if he doesn't make any promises to Cordula for the future, because he doesn't know whether he could look after a family after the war.
It is Corpus Christi and the district captain appears in the city. He realizes that in Übelbach the war ordinances are by no means adhered to and that the residents feast like in peacetime. He orders Gendarme Kirbisch to take action; otherwise he will have him called up to the front. While Kirbisch is now taking action and is often away from home, his wife and Fleps begin a relationship that is maintained, among other things, through appointments by post. From a left envelope, Cordula recognizes that Käthe and Fleps are secretly writing to each other.
Landlord Pschunder has big plans for Übelbach, so he advertises food like in peacetime and thus brings summer guests to the village. The retarded Vitus, who looks after the mayor's horses, lives in the village. He has deep trust in Cordula. She is therefore horrified when she learns that Vitus is to be deported to the poor house because he scares the summer guests. When Fleps and the Kirbisch couple appear in the pub shortly afterwards, Cordula passed out. Rumors spread in the village that Cordula von Vitus is pregnant. Meanwhile, the pastor is breaking up with the congregation, which is becoming more and more profit-oriented and godless. Kirbisch intercepts a letter from Fleps to his wife and now knows that his wife is cheating on him. He volunteers to report to the front.
The Übelbachers Cordula and Vitus want to play a trick on the church day. They claim to Vitus that he will marry Cordula, dress him up and take him to the festival stage. When some men want to call Cordula up, she cannot be found. She fled to friends there in time. At the end of the war, all of the Übelbachers who were fit for military service were drafted, while Cordula gave birth to her son. She went to the pastor one more time before leaving Übelbach to find happiness in the city.
production
Cordula is based on the epic Kirbisch or the Gendarme, The Shame and Fortune of Anton Wildgans, which he wrote in 1925. It was the first film produced by Paula Wessely's Paula Wessely film production. The production company had 4.8 million schillings available for the shoot. The film was shot within 39 days in the Vienna Sievering studio and in Vorau , with numerous local residents taking part as extras.
It is the sixth collaboration between Paula Wessely and director Gustav Ucicky. Alfred Solm acted as assistant director, Otto Niedermoser created the film structures . The score is by Joseph Marx ; the musical arrangement was done by Willy Schmidt-Gentner and Heinz Sandauer . Among other things, you can hear Marx's Ein Neujahrshymnus .
The film premiered on September 28, 1950 in the Stuttgart Universum . It was shown in GDR cinemas on March 20, 1953 and was shown for the first time on German television on June 27, 1961 on ARD .
criticism
The film-dienst called Cordula an “artistically ambivalent… film adaptation” and found that the “atmosphere of a society shaken in its structures and a vaguely wistful longing for world peace, naturalism and sentiment” are in balance. "The irony of the hexameter epic twisted into sentimentality in the prose version of the film," said Der Spiegel .
Web links
- Cordula in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cordula at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b One weeps for Cordula . In: Der Spiegel , No. 40, 1950, p. 36.
- ↑ We cry for Cordula . In: Der Spiegel , No. 40, 1950, p. 37.
- ↑ Cordula. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .