Water for canitoga
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Water for canitoga |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Herbert Selpin |
| script |
Walter Zerlett-Olfenius edited by Emil Burri and Peter Francke |
| production | Carl W. Tetting for Bavaria Film , Munich |
| music | Peter Kreuder |
| camera |
Franz Koch Josef Illig |
| cut | Lena Neumann |
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Wasser für Canitoga is a German adventure film made in the winter of 1938/39 with Hans Albers in the leading role. Directed by Herbert Selpin .
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In the spring of 1905, a long-planned water pipeline project in Canitoga, Canada, is to be brought to a successful conclusion. Again and again in the past acts of sabotage prevented the completion. Engineer Captain Oliver Montstuart gives the order for the final demolition. But this time too, someone seems to want to obstruct the work. Too large an explosive charge sabotages further construction once again. When Montstuart then confronts foreman Westbrook, the latter threatens him with a drawn knife. Oliver has to shoot the man in self-defense. In a moment of headlessness, the engineer immediately decides to flee.
One day the man who is now wanted returns to Canitoga. This time he calls himself Nicholsen and introduces himself to the chief engineer Ingram as a new employee at the construction site. Montstuart alias Nicholsen finally wants to find out who is behind the acts of sabotage that have been committed for years and that have not stopped with his escape. He finds out that Ingram is playing a double game and initiating the destructive activities. But Ingram has not been idle either. He has long since found out Nicholsen's true identity. He has Nicholsen's friend Reechy shot as an accomplice and incites the workers against the unwelcome newcomer.
Contrary to expectations, Nicholsen can quickly defuse the dangerous situation for him, especially since a new catastrophe threatens to destroy the water pipe. This time a leak threatens to destroy the entire construction project. At the risk of his life, Nicholsen closes it, preventing an impending explosion. Montstuart / Nicholsen can finally uncover Ingram's conspiracy with the last of his strength. Badly marked by his work, Oliver Montstuart achieved his rehabilitation and was able to complete his life's work, the completion of the water pipe. Then he dies.
Production notes
The model for this film was a play by G (eorg) written in 1936. Turner cancer. The writer Hans José Rehfisch hid behind this pseudonym . As expected, the "true, Jewish identity of the original author of this lively adventure story, ostracized in the Third Reich and officially expatriated on June 16, 1939, was kept secret."
The shooting on water for Canitoga took place between October 1938 and February 1939. The shooting locations were Carrara in Italy and Rüdersdorf near Berlin .
With production costs of 1,385,000 Reichsmarks , water was one of the most expensive film productions in the German Reich during the Nazi era for Canitoga .
Water for Canitoga was premiered on March 10, 1939 in Munich and received the title "artistically valuable". The Berlin premiere took place on March 17, 1939 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo . The film was released for young people aged 14 and over.
Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the film was also shown in the Netherlands , where it was shown continuously from April 1939 until 1940, and in Hungary . In October 1940, water for Canitoga was first performed in German-occupied Denmark .
The Peter Kreuder song Goodbye Johnny performed by Hans Albers became a veritable hit, one of the most popular film hits up until 1945. Due to the unmistakable similarities between the later GDR national anthem composed by Hanns Eisler and the first bars of the Kreuder hit, its creator already in the 1950s was accusing the GDR and Eisler were guilty of intellectual theft . Hans Fritz Beckmann wrote the lines of text to Kreuder's Goodbye Johnny .
Ludwig Reiber designed the buildings, Willi Depenau and Artur Schwarz executed them. Rudolf Pfenninger was responsible for the technical film tricks.
Reviews
In Der deutsche Film 1938–1945 you can read: “Water for Canitoga was a typical Hans Albers film. The 'blonde Hans' came from Canada this time. With casual self-irony (but sometimes a bit 'too theatrical'), he embodied honest tramp heroism: he sacrificed himself for a good cause ”.
The lexicon of international films called water for Canitoga an "sometimes simple and maudlin adventure film".
Kay Weniger's Between Stage and Barracks found that water for Canitoga was, as with the Selpin-Albers cooperation Sergeant Berry , which had already started , “a turbulent and sometimes ironic, but always exciting action cinema, which was clearly based on American models . "
See also
Web links
- Water for Canitoga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Water for Canitoga in filmportal.de
- Water for Canitoga in Murnau-Stiftung.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 411.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 489.
- ^ Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945. A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 532.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 9, p. 4204. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Less: Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists 1933-1945, p. 432. Berlin 2008.