On the Danube, when the wine is blooming

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Movie
Original title On the Danube, when the wine is blooming
On the Danube, when the wine is in bloom Logo 001.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1965
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Géza from Cziffra
script Joe Lederer ,
Ilse Lotz-Dupont
production Franz Seitz ,
Wiener Stadthalle
music Rolf Alexander Wilhelm
camera Heinz Pehlke
cut Jane Sperr
occupation

On the Danube, when the wine blooms is a German-Austrian fictional film by Géza von Cziffra from 1965 .

content

Florian Richter's mother died shortly after his birth, so that the boy grew up with his father Frank. Although he makes every effort to deal with the bright boy, as a successful architect he can also afford a nanny and a chauffeur to do the work for him. Since Florian started going to school, however, he has been missing a real mother. In a bookstore he met the beautiful bookseller Gabriele Welser, with whom he immediately got to know. Both realize that they are planning a trip to the Wachau at the same time . While Florian and his father Frank are driven by chauffeur Martin and have the Sankt Florian monastery as their destination , Gabriele plans the trip with her fiancé, the chemist Walter Kuntz, and wants to visit her grandmother in Vienna .

Gabriele and Walter parted ways already in Passau , since Walter would have preferred to drive on the autobahn rather than across the country. He complains about the dust in the convertible and the constantly battered tires and shows that, unlike Gabriele, he has never been interested in architecture. Exasperated, she decides to continue the journey by ship. In Passau she meets Florian and tells him about her travel plans. Florian, in turn, convinces his father Frank to continue the journey by ship to Linz - where Martin will wait with the car. On board he introduces Frank and Gabriele to each other, who are sympathetic. Frank and Florian disembark in Linz. Since Gabriele's ship will not continue until the next day, Florian goes to her at night and convinces her to continue the journey with them by car. It is planned to visit Florian's uncle Maurus at St. Florian Monastery in St. Florian . Gabriele agrees. The three of them visit the baroque monastery of St. Florian, where Florian prays to have a new mother in Gabriele. Uncle Maurus also realizes that Florian and Frank have taken Gabriele into their hearts and encourages Frank not to let them go. However, Gabriele reacts surprised to a very amateurish form of marriage proposal and leaves hastily the next day. Florian secretly takes the next bus to Vienna, where he finds his grandmother Gabriele's house and also meets Gabriele.

Meanwhile, Walter travels from Passau to Linz in a convertible and takes Susi, the hitchhiker, with him. In Linz he looks in vain for Gabriele and continues Susi to Vienna , where Susi's grandmother has organized a job for him. He gets the job, but doesn't accept it because he has fallen in love with Susi, who doesn't live in Vienna. He travels to Gabriele's grandmother, where he meets Gabriele and Florian. Gabriele has meanwhile decided that she loves Frank more than Walter and Walter also reveals to her that he has fallen in love with Susi. Walter leaves and Frank comes to pick up Florian. He and Gabriele now finally confess their love and Gabriele's grandmother is enthusiastic about the new grandchild Florian.

production

On the Danube, when the wine is in bloom , there are clear parallels to the German homeland film Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer from 1953, in which Will Quadflieg and Elisabeth Müller played the leading roles. Both here and there it is about a boy who is a half-orphan and is looking for a new partner for his father or mother.

Producer Franz Seitz rewrote the script, which means that the protagonists in An der Donau, when the wine is in bloom , and drive along the Danube from Passau to Vienna. Géza von Cziffra, who was under contract as a director, distanced himself from the script, but since Seitz had already received a rental guarantee from Stadthallen-Film and all actors were under contract, there was no turning back, especially since Stadthallen boss Adolf Eder after a fall was seriously injured in hospital.

The film was shot in Passau and Vienna, among others, and had its world premiere on October 15, 1965. In contrast to the film from 1953, however, the landscape images are interspersed without reference to the plot and thus appear “more like a tourist advertisement”. On the Danube, when the wine is in bloom , its failure not only sealed the bankruptcy of the Stadthallen Film, but also the end of the Heimatfilm wave.

criticism

The lexicon of international films described An der Donau, when the wine is in bloom, as “a cheerful, soulful family cinema.” Other critics saw the homeland film as “an unsuccessful work by director Geza von Chiffra”.

The Evangelische Film-Beobachter described the film as "Papa's cinema in its purest form, whereby clichés are only indulged in".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 25
  2. ↑ a b Gertraud Steiner: Die Heimat-Macher. Cinema in Austria 1946–1966 . Publishing House for Social Criticism, Vienna 1987, p. 246.
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 84.
  4. ↑ Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Review No. 463, 1965.