All roads lead home
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | All roads lead home |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Deppe |
| script |
Juliane Kay , Jacob Geis |
| production |
Johannes J. Frank , Hans Deppe |
| music | Bernhard Kaun |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut | Johanna Meisel |
| occupation | |
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All roads lead home (alternative title: My son Michael ) is a German feature film by Hans Deppe from 1957. Juliane Kay and Jacob Geis wrote the screenplay . The main roles are cast with Luise Ullrich , Christian Doermer and Fritz Tillmann . The film premiered on October 31, 1957.
action
Tilla Haidt struggles with her fate. Her husband had to give his life for the fatherland during the war , and she has been waiting for a sign of life from her son Michael for years. She has never heard anything about him since he left the place with the Kinderlandverschickung 14 years ago . She only finds consolation in her work with clay and plaster. Occasionally she receives visits from two guests who are very welcome: Dr. Jacobs and Pastor Nielsen.
The young boys Kurt, Jochen and Michael fight their way through life as tramps . When they set up camp in a barn and were smoking, the building suddenly went up in flames. When they escape, Kurt and Jochen are caught by the police; Michael escapes to Tilla's property, where he hides in the house. But the mistress of the house discovered the intruder the following night. She thinks he looks a lot like her son and when she hears his name she is sure it is him too. Because it is easy to live at Tilla's farm, Michael will now play the role he is supposed to play.
Dr. Jacobs, who has had an eye on Tilla, soon notices that something is wrong here. But because he also discovered good things about Michael, he looked for a solution that should satisfy everyone as far as possible. Pastor Nielsen also wants to be certain. He asks his superior service authority to reveal Michael Haidt's fate map. The answer does not surprise him: Tilla's son is demonstrably dead. The woman herself soon has to realize that she has been deceived by a blender. But didn't she assign him this role herself?
Meanwhile, Michael's friends have been released from prison. Together they manage to get Michael back on their side. During the night they loot Tilla's cash box and drive away in her car. They do not get far, however; because soon the journey ends on a tree.
During the trial in the police station , Michael suddenly collapses from an injury. When he opens his eyes in the hospital, Tilla Haidt is sitting by his bed and asks how he is. Somewhat confused, the young man asks her why she is so good to him when she knows that he has stolen her money. His dearest wish now is to get out of the hospital and let's get away. Does not matter where! "If you want," says Tilla to him, "you can come to me too, but if you go, don't go so far and come home to me every now and then."
Production notes
The outdoor shots were taken in the North Frisian town of Husum in Schleswig-Holstein. The buildings were created by the film architects Willy A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann .
criticism
The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the strip is a so-called “ problem film from the German post-war period.” The film is a little more detailed in the later online edition “Two Thousand One”: “Technically solid, but through sentimentality and incredibly watered-down problem film. "
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , Klemmer Verlag, Mannheim, no number given
Web links
- All roads lead home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- All roads lead home at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 87
- ↑ All roads lead home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2016 .