Marie-Louise

This article describes the Swiss feature film Marie-Louise. For other meanings of terms with the same word, see Marie-Louise (disambiguation) .

Movie
Original title	Marie-Louise
Country of production	Switzerland
original language	Swiss German
Publishing year	1944
length	103 minutes
Rod
Director	Leopold Lindtberg , Franz Schnyder (not in the credits)
script	Richard Schweizer
production	Lazar Wechsler , Praesens-Film
music	Robert Blum
camera	Emil Berna
cut	Hermann Haller
occupation
Josiane Hegg : Marie-Louise Heinrich Gretler : Rüegg Anne-Marie Blanc : Heidi Rüegg Margrit Winter : Anna Rüegg Armin Schweizer : Bänninger Mathilde Danegger : Päuli Fred Tanner : Robert Scheibli Emil Gerber : Ernst Schwarzenbach Pauline Carton : Ms. Gilles Germaine Tournier : Ms. Fleury Jean Host : Mr. Deschamps

Marie-Louise is a fiction film produced in Switzerland in 1943 by the director Leopold Lindtberg . It is about a French girl who is accepted into a Swiss family as part of the children's aid of the Swiss Red Cross in 1940 during the German advance in France.

action

Marie-Louise is a French girl who was bombed during World War II. In order to recover from this, she and other children are brought to Switzerland by the Red Cross for six months. But when no foster parents could be found for Marie-Louise, the helper Heidi Rüegg took her to her home. There she slowly befriends the social worker’s father, who was initially dismissive, a factory director. The girl is so frightened by Swiss military aircraft that she has to be taken to hospital. Meanwhile, the workers in Rüegg's factory are trying to bring more French children to Switzerland.

background

Marie-Louise was shot in 1943 by Leopold Lindtberg for Praesens-Film under Lazar Wechsler and premiered on February 19, 1944. The opening scene, which shows a bombing in Rouen , was shot by Franz Schnyder , but he was not named in the credits.

The screenplay was written by Richard Schweizer , who received the Oscar for best original screenplay in 1946 . The music was composed by Robert Blum , the camera was directed by Emil Berna and the editing was done by Hermann Haller .

Josiane Hegg took over the title role. The helper Heidi Rüegg was played by Anne-Marie Blanc , her father by Heinrich Gretler . Margrit Winter , Armin Schweizer , Mathilde Danegger , Fred Tanner , Emil Gerber , Pauline Carton , Germaine Tournier and Jean Host also played roles .

criticism

The lexicon of international film describes Marie-Louise as "sympathetic entertainment staged without pathos and sentimentality".

Awards

• Oscar 1946 in the Best Original Screenplay category for Richard Schweizer

Web links

• Marie-Louise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marie-Louise 1944 film portrait on cyranos.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Marie-Louise / Marie Louise on reto.ch: Swiss Film Directory , accessed on May 3, 2010
2. ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch : Franz Schnyder would be 100 years old. Tages-Anzeiger , February 25, 2010, accessed on May 3, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b} hoerzu.de : Marie-Louise on the Hörzu homepage , accessed on May 3, 2010
4. ↑ aeppli.ch : Felix Aeppli: Conformity of nonconformists - Commemorating Franz Schnyder. Published in Ciné-Bulletin , No. 210, April 1993, accessed May 3, 2010
5. ↑ Marie-Louise. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed May 3, 2010 .