Mozart (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Give me your hand, my life |
| Original title | Mozart |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Hartl |
| script | Karl Hartl |
| production | Cosmopol-Film, Vienna J.W. Beyer , Julius Jonak A.I. Paulini |
| music |
Isolde Ahlgrimm , Prof. Hans Swarowsky |
| camera | Oskar Schnirch |
| cut |
Henny Brünsch , Leopold Kuhnert , Rudolf Ohlschmidt |
| occupation | |
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Mozart is an Austrian feature film from the year 1955 , in which Karl Hartl directed. The film based on his script is set in the last year of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life . The first performance in Austria and Germany took place on December 20, 1955 in Düsseldorf. In Germany the film was shown under the distribution title Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben . After Who the Gods Love from 1942, the film was Hartl's second film to deal with Mozart's life.
action
The “ court composer ” Mozart has had enough of the ignorance and vanity of the Viennese court and tries to lead an independent life as a freelance artist. To this end, he allies himself with the theater director Emanuel Schikaneder to compose an opera for his Freihausheater , Die Zauberflöte . The opera is intended to pay homage to the ideals of the Freemasons . While Mozart's wife Constanze is on a cure, Mozart works with Schikaneder at the opera. The young singer of Pamina, Annie Gottlieb, has adored Mozart for a long time. Mozart also falls in love with her during rehearsals. But shortly before the opera premieres, an impresario appears who wants to sign Annie for an international tour. Annie's father wants her to take the opportunity. Mozart also understands what an opportunity the tour is for the young singer and sends her on a journey against her will. But Annie hesitates. Shortly before leaving, Annie, after a conversation with Mozart's doctor, realizes how badly Mozart's health is already damaged and that she will never see him again if she should join this one-year tour. Annie stays and thus also goes against the will of her father, who then violates her.
Already marked by his illness, Mozart and Annie experience a brief period of happiness that comes to an end with Mozart's sudden death.
production
The film was produced in the Ring Film Studio in Vienna-Kalvarienberg. The outdoor shots were taken in Klosterneuburg as well as in Vienna and the surrounding area. For the film, Karl Hartl gathered almost exclusively actors from his hometown of Vienna. Consistently, Mozart's wife Constanze (in real life a native of Upper Austria from Zell im Wiesental , today Baden-Württemberg ) was portrayed by the German actress Gertrud Kückelmann. However, Constanze's sister Aloisia Weber (married Lange), who was born in the same place as her sister, is played by the Viennese-born Nadja Tiller .
The German award title Reich my hand, my life quotes the tenderly advertising little duet piece (Italian) Là ci darem la mano between Don Giovanni and Zerlina in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni .
Reviews
“Sentimental entertainment with biographically questionable episodes. The milieu and time background are carefully designed, but remain decoration. The film (Karl Hartl's second Mozart film after "Who the Gods Love", 1942) is somewhat enhanced by some good music recordings and the gorgeous performance that the young Oskar Werner offers in the leading role. "
literature
- Günter Krenn (Ed.): Mozart in the cinema: Edition Film + Text No. 8. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-901932-88-7 .
Web links
- Mozart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mozart at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 550
- ↑ Mozart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .