1-2-3 Corona

Movie
Original title	1-2-3 Corona
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1948
Rod
Director	Hans Müller
script	Artur Kuhnert
production	Eduard Kubat
music	Hans Otto Borgmann ; ; Bruno Balz , Hans Fritz Beckmann (lyrics)
camera	Robert Baberske
cut	Ilse Voigt
occupation
	Eva-Ingeborg Scholz : Corona; Lutz Moik : Gerhard; Piet Clausen : Dietrich; Horst Gentzen : Emil; Hans Neie : Rudi; Edgar Stecher : Heinz; Werner Müller : Little Karl; Ralph Siewert : Fritzchen; Walter Werner : Dr. Waldner; Herbert Huebner : Teacher; Annemarie Hase : Mrs. Schmittchen; Eduard Wandrey : Hugo Grandini; Annaliese Würtz : Mrs. Grandini; Hans Leibelt : Director Barlay; Eduard Wenck : Place owner Rudi;

The black and white film 1-2-3 Corona , shot by DEFA in Berlin from August to December 1947 , is a German " rubble film ". Its peculiarities are that it is a youth and children's film and that it has cheerful features.

content

In the summer of 1945 in the ruins of Berlin, the schools are still closed. Two gangs of orphaned boys end their rivalry (black market deals, thefts) because they are jointly to blame for the accident of the equally young circus artist Corona. They put those left in the lurch by their traveling circus in a trailer, take care of them and think of a small circus for them, which they then continue to run. The film has its happy ending when a real ringmaster discovers the young trapeze artist, takes the two young gang leaders who are in love with her into the artist training, hires some of the guys in the group and they are all torn from their hopeless and bleak lives.

background

The film was made in the Berlin-Johannisthal studio, the exterior shots come from Berlin-Charlottenburg and the Circus Barlay at the parade ground on Schönhauser Allee . Wilhelm Vorwerg and Otto Gülstorff were responsible for the buildings . The film was shot on 35 mm .

1-2-3 Corona was released by the censors on September 3, 1948 and had its premiere on September 17 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . As an exchange film between Central Germany and West Germany, it was shown for the first time in West Berlin on November 26, 1948, and in Düsseldorf for the first time on November 30, 1948 . It was quite successful and has also been shown in Scandinavia.

criticism

"Real-life circus film, nicely made with undemanding means."

- film service

literature

CineGraph - Hamburg Center for Film Research (Ed.): Everything in broken pieces! ...? Film - production and propaganda in Europe 1940–1950 , catalog, final editing: Robert Wohlleben , Richard Boorberg Vlg., O. O. u. J. [Munich 2008], pp. 66–68, ISBN 978-3-88377-991-1 (with DVD of the same title, ISBN 3-89848-885-3 )

Web links

1-2-3 Corona in the Internet Movie Database (English)
1-2-3 Corona at filmportal.de
1-2-3 Corona at the DEFA Foundation
1-2-3 Corona on YouTube (full film in German)

Individual evidence

^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 19
↑ ^a ^b film details: 1-2-3 Corona (1948). In: DEFA Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
↑ 1-2-3 Corona. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[1] Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 19

[:0-2] film details: 1-2-3 Corona (1948). In: DEFA Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .

[3] 1-2-3 Corona. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .