All glory on earth

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Movie
German title All glory on earth
Original title Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1955
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Henry King
script John Patrick based on the novel of the same name by Han Suyin
production Buddy eagle
music Alfred Newman
camera Leon Shamroy
cut William H. Reynolds
occupation

All glory on earth (Original title: Love is a Many Splendored Thing ) is an American feature film from 1955 by Henry King . The script was written by John Patrick . It is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by the Chinese doctor and author Han Suyin . The leading roles are cast with William Holden , Jennifer Jones and Torin Thatcher . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was shown for the first time on December 15, 1955.

"The many splendid thing" in Francis Thompson's poem The Kingdom of God stands for the splendor and glory of the Christian paradise. The German title of the film perhaps alludes to a passage in the 1st Letter of Peter about human transience:

"For" all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass has withered and the flower has fallen off; but the word of the Lord abides forever ”( Isa 40: 6-8  LUT ). But that is the word that has been preached among you. "

- 1 Petr 1,24-25  LUT

action

Hong Kong 1949. At a reception in the house of the hospital director Palmer-Jones, the Eurasian doctor Han Suyin meets the American journalist Mark Eliot. He is so taken with the lady that he invites her to dinner for the next day. However, Suyin refuses. On the way home with her colleague Keath, the doctor learns that Eliot has been separated from his wife for some time and that they want to get a divorce. Thereupon she accepts Mark's second invitation because she believes that she can stand by him during this difficult time. - A water taxi takes the two of them to a small offshore island, where they stop in a fine restaurant. They make friends over dinner and meet more often from then on. Eventually they fall in love.

One day when Mark wants to visit his lover in the hospital, he meets Dr. Sen, one of Suyin's former fellow students. He asks Mark not to disappoint Suyin because she has already suffered a severe blow of fate - her husband was shot by the communists. She couldn't cope with another disappointment.

Suyin visits her sister in Chongqing again . There she learns that she has left her family and intends to turn her back on China because she feared a threat from the communists. Meanwhile, Mark asks Suyin's uncle for his girlfriend's hand. Permission is given to him. To his annoyance, however, Mark's wife no longer agrees to the divorce. Suyin is also disappointed about this; but both firmly believe that this will not change their feelings.

The following year, Mark has to go to Macau on business , and Suyin accompanies him. Both experience the best days of their lives there until Mark is ordered to Korea to report on the war that has broken out there . In Korea, Mark writes a letter to Suyin almost every day. She hears on the radio that the communists have launched a heavy air strike in the area where Mark is staying. A short time later she reads about Mark's death in the newspaper. From now on, the doctor wants to devote her entire life to the benefit of the sick.

Awards

In 1956 the film won three Academy Awards:

He had received a nomination for the best film and four other categories.

criticism

The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "Romantic melodrama with interesting details about everyday life and culture in contemporary China, based on an autobiographical novel by Han Suyin."

source

Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html
  2. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 84