Alarm (1941)
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| Original title | alarm |
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| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 96 minutes |
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| Director | Herbert B. Fredersdorf |
| script | Kurt E. Walter |
| production | Aco film ( Gustav Althoff ) |
| music | Hansom Milde-Meissner |
| camera | Eduard Hoesch |
| cut | Margarete Steinborn |
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Alarm is a German crime film that was shot in 1940 under the direction of Herbert B. Fredersdorf . The black and white film produced by Gustav Althoff is based on a novel by CV Rock . The world premiere took place on January 31, 1941 in Hamburg . In Berlin , the film was shown for the first time on April 1st of the same year in the cinemas Atrium , Ufa-Theater Friedrichstrasse and Ufa-Theater Tauentzienpalast .
action
The two colleagues Herbert Flügger and Werner Blennemann work as plant pilots for Deutsche Anilinwerke . When she after a long flight to Berlin land, Herbert wants his girlfriend Helene Hoesch a marriage proposal make. Werner absolutely wants to prevent this because he is also interested in Helene. While still at the airport, Herbert is asked by the advertising manager of his company to be present at the evening premiere of an advertising film in which he has taken on a leading role as a pilot. Since Helene works as an usher in the premiere cinema Union-Palast , he accepts. Herbert drives from the airport directly to Ms. Anders' pension. In addition to Helene, the pensioner Ophagen, the precision mechanic Stülken, the bar pianist Oelkers and Vera Kaufmann, the secretary of the Union-Palast, live there. While Herbert tries in vain to convince Helene of his marriage plans in her room, Vera is very worried. She loves Herbert with all her heart and doesn't understand why he is interested in Helene.
During the film premiere, Vera sits down in Herbert's box, who hardly takes any notice. Instead, he observes Werner obviously flirting with Helene. In fact, Werner even threatens her that something will happen if she marries Herbert. After the performance, Herbert and Werner have an argument. On the way to the pension, Herbert and Helene meet the drunken pensioner Ophagen, who gives Helene a ring that he won at the fair. Herbert urges Helene to finally come to a decision. Then the two are together in Helene's room until the early hours of the morning. Finally, Helene and Werner meet, who asks them to come to the front door in the middle of the night. In the stairwell she meets the bar pianist Oelkers, with whom she once had a relationship.
The next day Herbert and Werner start a new flight. After Helene did not show up for work in the cinema, Vera hurried back to the pension. She finds Helene dead in her room with Mrs. Anders and the other pensioners. Those present immediately notify the police. Detective Inspector Petersen from the homicide squad found that Helene Hoesch was obviously strangled . However, there are also traces of attempts at resuscitation . The precision mechanic Stülken, who is actually a burglar, disappears during the questioning of the pensioners. A short time later he is recognized by a department store detective. During an adventurous escape over the roof of the department store, Stülken fell several dozen meters into a street canyon.
Herbert Flügger and Werner Blennemann are arrested at the airport on their return. The pilots, who have since settled their dispute over Helene, are visibly appalled by the murder. Herbert has to admit that he was the last of the two to have left Helene's apartment. However, he finally separated from Helene there. Thereupon she gave him Ophagens supposedly cheap ring, as a parting gift, so to speak. Now Commissioner Petersen has to realize that the ring is extremely valuable. Although the investigators are not convinced of his guilt, Herbert remains temporarily detained. Ophagen, who could provide information about the valuable ring, has disappeared without a trace.
The officers discovered new clues among the remains of the burglar Stülken. On a beer mat you will find a receipt for 200 marks, in which the thief "Squint" and a fence named "Julius" are mentioned. But cross-eyed, which you can catch soon after, is silent. But when he learns that he is supposed to be involved in a murder, he offers to help. In the evening he smuggled Detective Inspector Petersen to a meeting with "Julius". The official plans to introduce himself there as the successor of Stülken. But "Julius" is about Ophagen, who recognizes Petersen and knocks down. A spectacular car chase ensues in which Ophagen falls from a moving train. The seriously injured man then confesses to the murder of Helene Hoesch. The precious ring had accidentally fallen out of his pocket that night. In order not to arouse suspicion, he gave the jewel to Helene and claimed it was worthless. After Herbert Flügger had left Helene's room, Ophagen wanted the ring back. That is when the murder occurred. After the confession, Ophagen succumbs to his injuries. Herbert is released and promises the inspector to take care of Vera Kaufmann immediately.
History of origin
The plot of the film is based on a novel by CV Rock . The script for the film adaptation was written by Kurt E. Walter . The outdoor shots were shot from the beginning of July to mid-September 1940 in Berlin and the surrounding area, including at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport , in the Titania-Palast and at the Karstadt department store on Hermannplatz . The studio recordings took place from July 12 to August 17, 1940 in the Althoff studio in Potsdam-Babelsberg . For the Filmbauten were Bruno Lutz and Karl Getschmann responsible.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as a “little crime thriller that shows the capital of the Reich in the day-to-day life of the swastika before it was bombed in the year of production in 1941. ” In fact, the crime film only addresses the political situation at the time it was made in a few places. A wordless Hitler salute as well as a patriotic commentary in the documentary about the Werkpiloten of the fictional “Deutsche Anilinwerke” (“[…] And it is finally German Werkpiloten who are daring and self-sacrificing allies in the fight against the Black Death .”). In addition, the investigating commissioner describes one of the criminals as a " habitual criminal " and threatens him with " preventive detention " and placement in a "corrective camp". In 1945 the film was added to the list of German films banned under Allied military censorship . There were no further public reruns of the work.
See also
Web links
- Alarm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alarm at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 96 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 92 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2617 meters
- ↑ alarm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .