... and love stays forever
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Original title | ... and love stays forever |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1954 |
length | 90 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
script |
Eberhard Keindorff Johanna Sibelius |
production | Berolina Film GmbH, Berlin ( Kurt Ulrich ) |
music | Alois Melichar |
camera |
Willy Winterstein Werner M. Lenz |
cut | Hermann Leitner |
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... and love stays forever is a German feature film from 1954 directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner . Ulla Jacobsson and Karlheinz Böhm play the main roles in this story, which is based on the play Johannisfeuer by Hermann Sudermann . The material was filmed in 1916 and 1939.
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Georg Hartwig grew up with the landlord Heinrich Vogelreuther and his wife Minchen together with their daughter Trude and Marieke, who had been adopted as a child . The wedding between him and Trude should take place shortly. The young couple want to move into an apartment in Bremen that Marieke has prepared. She has just come back to Exten on the train early in the morning when she is approached by an older, sloppy-looking woman on the way home and, after a brief exchange of words, runs away obviously excited. Georg sees her from a distance without her noticing him. At breakfast, Vogelreuther wants to know from Marieke whether someone has spoken to her, to which the young woman replies, yes, from a man. Vogelreuther found out from his manager Plötz that "the Elster", as it is called because it steals like one, has been released from prison after eight years. The landlord doesn't want her to contact Marieke.
A little later, when Marieke and Trude are doing handicrafts in the garden, Georg joins them. Marieke sends Trude away on a pretext and then tells Georg that she found two love letters addressed to her between his books. Then she lets Georg know that it was not a man who caught her, but "the magpie" and she has known for a long time that it was her mother. She fends off Georg's tentative attempts to talk her out of it. She pleaded with him to take “the magpie” into the garden in the evening when her parents were gone, and she had to speak to her. Although something in Georg is reluctant, he wants Marieke to fulfill this wish, but refrains from it when he witnesses how deep this woman has already sunk.
Once again, Georg's foster father can't help pointing out that he owes everything to him when the young man explains to him that he would like to live freely and independently in the future and that he would be able to live alone for himself and his future wife to care. He makes it unmistakably clear to Georg that he will keep an eye on him in the future so that he can intervene if necessary. Even with a tip on Georg's biological father and his recklessness, he does not hold back. Troubled and hurt by the conversation, Georg decides to bring "the Elster" together with Marieke. She admires Marieke's silk scarf, the big house and the prosperity in which she lives, but lacks any maternal impulse and any interest in Marieke herself, which pains the young woman very much. On this occasion, she even steals silk linen and candlesticks when Marieke briefly leaves the room to get her the schnapps she asked for. She only wanted to speak to Marieke because she wanted to get a wedding invitation for herself. Marieke notices that her mother has stolen from the family and causes them to give everything back. Then she gives her a larger bill. After she leaves, Marieke remains deeply hurt. Georg is there for her and takes her comfortingly in his arms. He has known for a long time that they belong together, he says and adds: "We will always think back to that day, the day before Midsummer."
But Trude, who was still very childish, noticed that something was wrong between her and Georg. In her naivete, she ponders whether Georg has a girlfriend in town. In a conversation with her parents and the assistant preacher Haffke, who secretly loves Marieke, she talks about her doubts and her worries about being too stupid for Georg and not being able to make him happy.
Preparations for the Midsummer Festival are being made the day before in the courtyard. And then comes the Midsummer Night, the night in which almost everything is allowed. Music resounds, you dance, you are happy together and the young people jump over the fire. The assistant preacher confesses his love for Marieke and it is decided to announce the engagement as soon as Georg and Trude's wedding is over. The next morning Marieke wants to go to Bremen one last time and Georg is supposed to take her to the train station at Vogelreuther's request. That night there is a discussion between the two, at the end of which they confess their love for one another. With the words: “My mother steals, I steal too!” Marieke throws herself into Georg's arms. The wedding is due the next day, but after spending the night with Marieke, Georg is determined not to marry Trude. Marieke also withdraws her promise to Haffke and wants to go away with Georg. Just as Georg wants to speak to his foster father, the manager bursts into the conversation to say that "the Elster" has been caught stealing again and that she will be arrested immediately. When Marieke sees her mother being led away from the window, she suddenly knows that she cannot go away with Georg and at the last moment prevents Georg from revealing himself to Vogelreuther. But she is not spared one last big sacrifice either, when she has to calm the very insecure Trude, who pleads with her to tell her whether Georg loves someone else. “There is no other, he only loves you,” she reassures the young woman. When Georg and Trude say yes a little later, Marieke leaves the church, only noticed by the assistant preacher.
Production and Background
The film was shot in the Berlin Union-Film Studio in Tempelhof and at Gut Dankersen in Rinteln . The buildings are by Willi A. Herrmann , Heinrich Weidemann and Peter Schlewski, the costumes by Walter Kraatz. Kurt Ulrich , Heinz Willeg and Karl Mitschke acted as production managers .
It is a Berolina film production distributed by Constantin Film , which premiered on August 13, 1954 in the Hanover cinema . In Austria the film ran under the title Johannisfeuer .
Johannisfeuer was first filmed in 1916 under the direction of the German-American cinema pioneer Siegmund Lubin under the title Flames of Johannis . In 1939 Arthur Maria Rabenalt took on the subject under the original title Johannisfeuer . Anna Dammann , Ernst von Klipstein , Otto Wernicke , Gertrud Meyen , Maria Koppenhöfer and Hans Brausewetter were cast in the leading roles.
Friedemann Beyer also dealt in his biography about Karlheinz Böhm with ... and love stays forever and was of the opinion that Liebeneiner's 1954 film cannot be compared to Rabenalt's pre-war film because of its colportage style, but it has so much time reference that it is Document will. At the time the film was released, there were millions of displaced persons or orphans who “suffered from the aftermath of the war”. From this point of view, the story of “uprooted people who long for order and thereby come into conflict with their passions” is understandable.
Songs in the film: (the Egon Kaiser orchestra plays, vocals: Horst Winter)
- ... and love stays forever , text by HH Henning, music: Franz Molin
- In Eternity , sung by Horst Winter with the participation of Marieke and Trude
- This is the day of the Lord , sung by the men's choir
- The youth is beautiful , sung by the women's choir
- So take my hands sung in church
The film has so far only been released on VHS (Atlas Verlag Video).
criticism
The lexicon of the international film spoke of an "effectively constructed love drama which, like the stage template under the naturalistic packaging, turns out to be a thin-blooded gossip".
Cinema found that the director let it "languish" and drew the conclusion: "Kitschy heartache".
Cinefacts spoke of a "lovingly staged love film".
Friedemann Beyer focused on the subordination of the main characters at the price of private happiness, where "self-realization in freedom" is sacrificed to security thinking and said that with this "subliminal statement [is] ... and forever love remains a film that is excellent to the restorative mentality of the young Federal Republic ”.
Web links
- ... and eternal love remains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ... and love stays forever Filmplakat at filmportal.de
- ... and love remains forever Illustrated Film Stage No. 2438
Individual evidence
- ↑ Todenmann and Dankersen at rinteln.de. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
- ↑ And love stays with filmportal.de forever . Retrieved April 2, 2014.
- ^ Hermann Sudermann Foundation Filmings at sudermannstiftung.de. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
- ^ A b Friedemann Beyer: Karlheinz Böhm His Films - His Life , Heyne Filmbibliothek No. 32/171, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1992, pp. 52, 56.
- ↑ ... and love stays forever. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 2, 2014 .
- ↑ ... and love stays at Cinema.de forever . Retrieved April 2, 2014.
- ↑ ... and love stays with Cinefacts.de forever . Retrieved April 2, 2014.