Old heart becomes young again
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| Original title | Old heart becomes young again |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Erich Engel |
| script |
Walter Wassermann C. H. Diller |
| production | Production Group Fritz Klotzsch for Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) |
| music | Theo Mackeben |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
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Old heart is young again is a German feature film from 1942 with Emil Jannings . Directed by Erich Engel .
action
Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann invested all his energy in his chocolate factory all his life. This meant that his private life was clearly neglected and he remained unmarried. His three nephews Dr. Paul Dehnhardt, Heinrich Hoffmann and Richard Lorenz have now joined the management team, but as senior boss he continues to determine the company's fortunes. His relatives, with whom he only has business, are just waiting to be able to inherit him one day.
One day, a young woman named Brigitte Lüders appears who claims to be his granddaughter. To complete her voting papers, she asks the old man to give her a copy of his birth certificate and that of his parents. Friedrich Hoffmann tries to remember. And indeed, as a young man he had a short, intense love affair, which he had to give up under pressure from his strict father. Until then, he had never known that this affair had resulted in a child. Brigitte is none other than his son's daughter from that long-ago affair. Hoffmann is only now finding out that his son was killed in the First World War.
Initial fears that the young girl was a “gold digger” who was only interested in parts of Friedrich's property quickly dissipated. Brigitte proves to Friedrich that his parents had offered their grandmother some kind of hush money to keep the presumably unwanted woman away from the industrialist family. Her grandmother, Friedrich's former lover, was indignant and refused this immoral offer. Incidentally, Brigitte does not want any further contact with the Hoffmanns - the injuries of her grandmother and father have spread too much on her. Old Hoffmann is horrified by what must have happened behind his back back then and asks his nephew Paul to investigate without giving him any further details about the background.
On the recommendation of Friedrich's great-niece Lilo, who is a friend of Brigitte, the womanizer Paul hires the young woman who actually wanted to apply to an authority as a stenographer . When old Hoffmann and Brigitte happened to run into each other at the company one day, they were both surprised and uncomfortably touched, as Friedrich Hoffmann had no idea of Paul's latest "conquest". Paul begins to develop a serious interest in Brigitte, and Friedrich Hoffmann also begins to revise his initial concerns about Brigitte. Only the rest of the relatives are becoming more and more suspicious, as they suspect a case of inheritance sneaking, especially since the harsh old Hoffmann suddenly begins to take care of a supposedly complete stranger. Brigitte brings sun into his gray business life, his old heart becomes young again.
Friedrich's growing affection even goes so far that he tries to steal his granddaughter Paul and asks her to move into his Berlin villa on Wannsee . Only now does Paul find out about Brigitte's true identity, and he decides to nail it down and want to spend his life with her. One day, Friedrich Hoffmann gathers the unloved relatives together to officially introduce them to Brigitte as another family member at a family festival.
production
The film was shot from August 26th to November 27th 1942 in the Efa studio in Berlin-Halensee . The premiere took place on April 2, 1943 in two Berlin movie theaters.
Old heart gets young again was Emil Jannings' last completed feature film.
Margit Symo sings Theo Mackebens song For me, the world could consist of all men .
The production line has Walter Lehmann , the buildings designed Otto Hunte and Karl Vollbrecht . The still photographer was the later cameraman Eugen Klagemann .
Fritz Soot and Katharina Boenisch were dubbed in the opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi by Kammersänger Max Lorenz ( tenor ) and Kammersängerin Tiana Lemnitz ( soprano ).
The film, which was awarded the title “artistically particularly valuable”, cost around 1.885 million Reichsmarks.
Old heart gets young again started in Sweden and Finland in August 1943 . The film was presented to the Swiss public for the first time in October 1943 as part of the Basel film exhibition Art and Technology . The premiere took place in Denmark in December of the same year . The Portuguese premiere was also before the end of the war, in March 1945.
Old heart gets young again was filmed in Austria in 1958 when you had to be twenty again . Another new film was made in Austria in 1999 under the title A heart becomes young again .
criticism
The film's large personal lexicon named the last two Jannings films, Old Heart Becomes Young Again and the unfinished production Wo ist Herr Belling? , two "harmless comedies [...] from the industrial and social milieu, in which Emil Jannings embodied indulgent and benevolent patriarchs".
The lexicon of the international film judged old heart gets young again : “Through a script with hand and foot, through Engels 'tight direction and Jannings' sympathetic portrayal, the family entanglements around a good-hearted 70-year-old bachelor turned into an entertaining comedy without the calculated prudishness of contemporary productions . "
Bogusław Drewniaks The German film from 1938-1945 called Old Heart Becomes Young Again “a song of praise to the family as a way of life”.
As Drewniak reports, in early 1944 "the Danish press praised Emil Jannings' game".
The online presence of the magazine Cinema wrote about the film: "Relaxed comedy with lively music".
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 12, year 1942/43, p. 121, Berlin 2001
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 200.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 1, p. 107. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ The German Film 1938-1945. A general overview, p. 247, Düsseldorf 1987
- ↑ Der deutsche Film 1938-1945, pp. 746 f.
- ↑ Old heart becomes young again in cinema.de
Web links
- Old heart young again in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Old heart becomes young again at filmportal.de