Fear (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | fear |
| Original title | La paura |
| Country of production |
Germany , Italy |
| original language |
German , English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| script |
Sergio Amidei , Franz Friedrich Graf Treuberg , Roberto Rossellini (anonymous) |
| production | Ariston-Film GmbH, Munich ( Franz Seitz, Jr. ) HM Film, Munich ( Hermann Millakowsky ) Aniene-Film, Rome |
| music | Renzo Rossellini |
| camera |
Carlo Carlini , Heinz Schnackertz |
| cut |
Jolanda Benvenuti Walter Boos |
| occupation | |
| |
Angst (Original title: La paura ) is a German - Italian film drama in black and white from 1954 by the director Roberto Rossellini . Rossellini wrote the script together with Sergio Amidei and Franz Friedrich Graf Treuberg . It is based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig . The leading roles are cast with Ingrid Bergman , Mathias Wieman and Renate Mannhardt .
action
Professor Albert Wagner and his wife Irene lead - or so it seems - a harmonious marriage. Irene has a guilty conscience, however, because she cheated on her husband with the composer Heinz Baumann and cannot stop thinking back to the good times with him. One day she is visited by a strange woman. The latter claims to know about Irene's affair with the composer and demands a hush money so that she does not reveal anything to the professor. But that's not all: the blackmailer is getting bolder and the amounts are getting higher. When Irene's fear reaches the boiling point, she decides to file charges against the stranger. She says this openly to her face. Suddenly the blackmailer confesses that she did not act of her own accord; rather it had been commissioned by Professor Wagner; he knew about her relationship with Baumann.
Irene no longer sees any meaning in her life. When she tried to commit suicide, she suddenly felt two hands touch her shoulders. “We both made mistakes,” she hears her husband say. The couple are reconciled and can now see the future without fear.
Production notes
The film was made in the Bavaria Film studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig with exterior shots from Munich and the surrounding area as well as from Tegernsee and Erlangen . There was no film construction, production management was taken over by Jochen Genzow . A separate Italian version called La Paura was shot with the same actors. The world premiere was on November 5, 1954 in Hamburg's cinemas crank on Jungfernstieg , in Italy on February 18, 1955.
criticism
The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "The marriage melodrama, filmed from a - simplified - novella by Stefan Zweig, meant a low point in the careers of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman, caused by personal crises." Time doesn't last long either from the film: “The premiere of the film […] was a disappointment for everyone who had hopes for the writer, actress and director. Rossellini […] put the story, modified according to Zweig […] in a neat milieu, with the untrue psychological conclusions already calculated by Zweig in a cold routine. "
literature
- Lawrence J. Quirk : Ingrid Bergman and Her Films. Translated from American English by Marie Margarete Giese. Goldmann, Munich 1982, p. 116 f, ISBN 3-442-10214-6 .
- Roberto Rossellini (Film 36 series). Munich / Vienna 1987. pp. 180-186.
Web links
- Fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fear at filmportal.de
- Angst (with film images) at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 396
- ↑ fear. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Erika Müller: Rossellini's "Fear". In: zeit.de . Die Zeit , November 11, 1954.