Anni (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anni |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Neufeld |
| script | Max Neufeld Harald Röbbeling |
| production | Heinrich Haas |
| music |
Alois Melichar Robert Stolz |
| camera | Walter Riml |
| occupation | |
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Anni is an Austrian feature film from 1948 by Max Neufeld with Elfie Mayerhofer in the title role and Josef Meinrad and Siegfried Breuer in the male lead roles.
action
Austria-Hungary around 1900. The Viennese Alexander Radkofsky is a celebrated pianist who has also made a name for himself as a charmer and seducer (especially among women). When he returned to the Austrian capital one day, he met a young woman who fatally reminded him of his childhood sweetheart, Anni, who had been abandoned by him. Without knowing that the girl is his and Anni's daughter, he tells her in a flashback his life story, in which Anni once played a major role. Radkofsky had met the eponymous heroine at a party and, as Casanova's way, fell in love with very quickly. But he, the unsteady artist, was never a friend of permanence in love matters and left Anni again after a night together.
Anni, left in the lurch, then married another man. When she and Radkofsky met again later, the old feelings flared up again, and Radkofsky wanted to take “his” Anni with him to his next concert, which was to take him to New York. Since Anni was married in the meantime (although not very happily) and did not want to behave immorally or even adulterously, she refused his request. Anni matured into a talented singer and eventually appeared in New York at the Metropolitan Opera. When she found out that her childhood sweetheart Alexander Radkofsky had also married in the meantime, she collapsed and died in the arms of the man she loved.
Production notes
Anni was written in early 1948 in the Rosenhügel studios in Vienna and in Vienna itself. The premiere took place on June 4, 1948 in the Austrian capital, the German premiere was on December 25, 1948 in Wuppertal, Krefeld and Unna.
Film producer Heinrich Haas also took over the production management. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures. Max Vernooij was responsible for the sound .
Reviews
“This Belle Époque piece is about the time between the seduction of the young Anni by the pianist Radkofsky and her reunion years later. Much has changed in your life - but also the feelings for a gentleman rider who likes to take women as they indulge in him? What does time do with people? What did working outside Austria do with Max Neufeld, who returned to his homeland with this work - and there, if you want to believe the frostiness of this »Viennese ballad«, you felt like a stranger. "
The lexicon of the international film decreed briefly: "Sentimental Viennese Schmäh."
Individual evidence
- ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at
- ↑ Anni. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Anni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anni at filmportal.de