At the fountain in front of the gate (film)

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Movie
Original title At the well in front of the gate
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hans Wolff
script Bobby E. Lüthge ,
Rudolf Dortenwald
production Kurt Ulrich
for Berolina-Film
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Kurt Schulz
cut Margarete Steinborn
occupation

At the fountain in front of the gate is a German homeland and crime film by Hans Wolff from 1952.

action

The vagabonds Tünnes, Nachtigall and Hans come to a place on their hike and use a temporarily orphaned house as a place to stay. When the house owner Georg Straaten returns prematurely from a long trip, the vagabonds are glad that he does not report them, but instead gives them a job at the young Inge Bachner's inn. Inge is about to reopen her inn, which has been used as an officers mess by the British since the end of the war and which she has now received back. However, Inge also has private concerns. Her brother Erich was arrested as a painting thief, but was able to escape and has been wanted by the police ever since. She is firmly convinced of Erich's innocence.

Inge is courted by Georg. However, she is engaged to the Englishman Robert Murphy, who has been living in London for months and has not contacted us. What she doesn't know: Georg Straaten intercepted Robert's letters and hid them. New in town is the gas station attendant Kurt, who also falls in love with Inge and whose love she hesitantly reciprocates. Robert surprisingly returns from England to take his fiancée back home with him. A chance encounter between Robert and Kurt reveals that Kurt saved Robert's life during the war. The two men become friends. Kurt inwardly gives up Inge for Robert.

Kurt repeatedly covers Inge's brother Erich, who is in the area and who is also convinced of his innocence. One day Erich comes to Kurt and tells him that he has found the real art thief: Georg Straaten. Kurt finds the painting he is looking for in his house. It shows a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Inge. Kurt realizes that he stole the painting as a replacement for his unrequited love.

Georg asks Kurt to give him a little more time before handing it over to the criminal police. Kurt grants him the request. So Robert takes part in the local festival one last time, the organization of which was in his hands for many years. For the first time, however, he takes part in the performance of the history game from the time of the Thirty Years' War . He slips into the role of the Swedish colonel, who besieged the city with his troops for a long period of time - with the result that they had to surrender to him on “mercy and disgrace”. After the keys to the city have been handed over to him as colonel, the “children's cart” (played by Inge Bachner) and a large crowd of children approach the victorious Swedes and ask for mercy for their city. In contrast to the script for the traditional play, the mounted “Colonel” Straaten does not take one of the children in his arms; he pulls Inge, the “children's cart”, onto his horse and kisses her. Then Georg returns to his house, where Kurt awaits him. Under a pretext he goes into an adjoining room and takes his own life with a pistol shot. Inge Bachner's brother Erich is now a free man.

Robert Murphy initially sticks to his marriage plans. His parents also came to meet their son's fiancée. At the big opening party, Robert felt in Inge's behavior that her love was for his lifesaver, the gas station attendant Kurt. He accepts his fate and leaves the city with his family. The three vagabonds also decide to leave the city and go hiking again

production

The street at Wörnitztor is the scene of the Dinkelsbühler Festival in the film

In the run-up to the shooting there was a legal dispute between Möwe-Film (distributed by Gloria) and Berolina-Film over the film title rights. At the beginning of 1952 Sonja Ziemann had announced publicly that she wanted to shoot a film by Berolina under the title Am Brunnen vor dem Tore . Since she had forgotten to pay the fee for the film title registration of the FSK, the owner of Möwe-Film Erwin Simon had the title entered in the title register instead. In August 1952, Hans Deppe began filming the remake of Ferien vom Ich . Since copies of the original from 1934 were still available for purchase, it was decided to rename the film to Am Brunnen vor dem Tore . The district court of Munich “saw the use of the title of the Gloria-Verleihe as an attempt at unfair competition” and awarded Sonja Ziemann “the exclusive use of the folk song beginning Am Brunnen vor dem Tore as a film title”. Erwin Simon's preliminary injunction against the judgment was rejected, so that the Deppe film was finally released under the title Ferien vom Ich .

The shooting for Am Brunnen vor dem Tore took place from October 6, 1952 to November 6, 1952 in Dinkelsbühl . Original recordings from the Dinkelsbühl Festival Kinderzeche were also used for the film . The interior shots were shot in the Berlin-Tempelhof film studio . The film structures were created by Willi A. Herrmann , Heinrich Weidemann and Peter Schlewski , the production management was in the hands of Kurt Ulrich , Karl Mitschke and Heinz Willeg . The film had its premiere on December 18, 1952 in the Stuttgart Palast-Lichtspiele .

Numerous folk songs are included in the film, including:

The "Stern" harmonica and accordion orchestras, the "Berliner Lautengilde" and the Dinkelsbühler Knabenkapelle play among others.

Awards

  • Bambi 1954 for the "most commercially successful German film 1953"

criticism

In 1953, Der Spiegel called the film Bobby E. Lüthges “the thinnest ... story to date [which] receives the necessary emotional injection through the installation of a lute player and harmonica competition and a Dinkelsbühl home game. Black Forest girl last choice. "

The lexicon of international films described the film in 1990 as a “sentimental 'Heimatfilm” mixture of folklore, military operetta and a criminal act about a criminal out of love - against the backdrop of Dinkelsbühl. ”In the new edition of the lexicon in 2001, Am Brunnen vor dem Tore was named“ kitschy homeland film with imposed pseudo-morality, staged in a bungling way ”.

Cinema criticized “the people who wear traditional costumes who perform their songs here on every corner. Conclusion: folk music hit parade with a framework story. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title dispute. At the well in front of the gate . In: Der Spiegel , No. 39, 1952, pp. 31–32.
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 242 f.
  3. ↑ New in Germany: At the fountain in front of the gate . In: Der Spiegel , No. 2, 1953, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 110.
  5. ↑ At the well in front of the gate. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 29, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ See cinema.de