24 hours from a woman's life (1931)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 24 hours from a woman's life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Land |
| script |
Harry Kahn Friedrich Raff |
| production |
Wilhelm von Kaufmann Ernst Wolff Seymour secondary number for Henny-Porten-Film and Nero-Film AG , Berlin |
| camera |
Otto Kanturek Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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24 Hours from a Woman's Life is a drama film starring Henny Porten in the title role. Directs this implementation of the eponymous novella by Stefan Zweig led Robert country .
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Helga Vanroh never really got over the death of her husband and has withdrawn from life completely. Her self-chosen loneliness comes to an abrupt end one day when she meets a young man in the casino who, like her, seems to be a lost soul. This man, Sascha, is practically written on his face. Bet after bet he loses in gambling.
Helga is fascinated by him, finally follows Sascha to his hotel and at the last moment is able to stop the desperate young man from suicide. The two lonely people find each other, and Helga soon realizes that he has become more for her - more than a fleeting acquaintance, more than she originally wanted to allow. She spends the following day with him and eventually provides him with financial means so that he can get away from his apparent gambling addiction and travel on.
In view of the unexpected financial blessing Helga then promises to return to his homeland. But Sascha is weak, and so Helga has to realize, to her great disappointment, that he is back at the gaming table the following evening, because his passion is stronger than all good resolutions.
Production notes
The film shot 24 hours from the life of a woman from June 1st to 23rd, 1931 in the Terra-Glashaus-Atelier in Berlin-Marienfelde . The outdoor recordings took place in Nice . The premiere of the film took place on October 12, 1931 in Munich , Leipzig and Görlitz .
Franz Schroedter created the film structures, Alexander Schmoll created the still photos.
24 hours in a woman's life was banned by the censors.
The film marks one of three well-known film adaptations of the novella. The Südwestfunk produced a 1965 television adaptation with Agnes Fink , Walter Rilla (who also participated in 1931), Michael Heltau and Joachim Engel-Denis . Director: Ludwig Cremer . First broadcast on April 22, 1965.
In 1967 Dominique Delouche staged a Franco-German remake of this branch material with Danielle Darrieux and Robert Hoffmann in the leading roles.
Zweig's template Twenty-Four Hours from the Life of a Woman was published in 1927 by Leipziger Insel Verlag .
Reviews
Hermann Sinsheimer wrote in the Berliner Tageblatt : “Robert Land, however, maneuvered the film into a stubborn straight line, into a lukewarm clarity and lack of transparency, in which the psychological stimulus of the genuinely novelistic process had to be blunted. The pictorial and symbolic of the novella, which can still be seen in many parts of the script, is totally blind in the finished film. ”Sinsheimer's conclusion:“ The woman is a bombshell for Henny Porten. She looks good, outwardly and inwardly good, she finds the transition from the bourgeois figure to nocturnal adventure easily and safely, and she also realizes the pain of disappointment with discreet means. But the director surrenders her to passivity and degrades her and her face (no matter how beautiful) to the subject of the show. Warmth becomes lukewarm, restraint becomes rigidity and inner silence becomes emptiness. The director keeps losing control of Henny Porten. He lets them stretch the external and thin the internal. "
In Oskar Kalbus ' Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (Vom Becoming German Film Art) one can read: “Even if the novella by Stephan Zweig on which the film is based is psychologically exaggerated, the complicated figure of Frau Helga, who surrenders to loneliness after the death of her husband, makes Porten. quite believable and pitiful. "
Kay Weniger's Lexicon More is taken from you than given in life calls the film a “respectable adaptation of the Zweig novel”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Tageblatt , evening edition of October 13, 1931.
- ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. Part 2: The sound film. Altona 1935, p. 97.
- ↑ 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. 294.