Farewell to the clouds
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Farewell to the clouds |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| script | Georg Hurdalek |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Kurt Zeunert |
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Farewell to the Clouds (alternative title: Farewell to the Gods ) is a German adventure film in black and white by director Gottfried Reinhardt from 1959 . Georg Hurdalek wrote the screenplay based on a manuscript by Ladislas Fodor . The film was first shown in the cinema on November 5, 1959 in the Federal Republic of Germany.
action
The adventurer Peter van Houten barely escapes a firing squad on the fictional island of San Quinto, which is marked by revolutionary fighting . He is being pardoned and is supposed to be deported using a line plane that is on its way from Mexico City to Bermuda . The San Quinto military forces the liner to make a stopover. Almost the entire film takes place inside the aircraft, where several storylines are intertwined. The captain Pink Roberti and his co-pilot Richard Marschall are hostile to each other because they are both in love with the stewardess Carla. When attempting to hijack the plane to Caracas , Roberti is gunned down and the aircraft's landing gear is damaged. Von Houten succeeds in disarming the kidnappers. The copilot is ultimately unable to successfully master the landing approach in Bermuda. Only the adventurer and former pilot van Houten, whom the crew and large parts of the passengers met with great distrust at the beginning, succeeds in landing the plane safely after a breakneck approach and saving the lives of the passengers. The co-pilot, however, dies in the exploding plane.
Production notes
The buildings were created by the film architects Paul Markwitz and Heinrich Weidemann . Helmut Holger contributed the costumes. The film was shot at what was then the Gatow military airport in Berlin-Spandau.
criticism
“OW Fischer as a jack-of-all-trades and unshaven philanthropist on board an airliner threatened by storms, criminals and technical disasters. Staged according to common patterns, the bundling of adventurous moments of danger does not exactly contribute to the credibility of the story. "
“Gottfried Reinhardt's attempt with this aviator film to venture into the regions of thrill, still untapped by German film manufacturers, ends early in a simple-minded film portage. The director used long-worn tension effects (hurricane and belly landing, childbirth, jealousy and exchange of fire on board), but even more than the chassis, the book (Georg Hurdalek) and the director stuck. Only the stubbly bearded O. W. Fischer is relaxed in his Peter Voss role. (CCC.) "
Web links
- Farewell to the clouds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Farewell to the clouds at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ^ Program for the film: The new film program, published by the publisher of the same name, Mannheim, without a number
- ↑ Farewell to the clouds. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 11, 2015 .
- ^ Farewell to the Clouds (Germany) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1959 ( online ).