Anuschka (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anuschka |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1942 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script |
Axel Eggebrecht with the collaboration of Georg Fraser and Helmut Käutner based on the play Die Anuschka (1940) by Georg Fraser |
| production | Gerhard Staab |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Erich Claunigk |
| cut | Ludolf Grisebach |
| occupation | |
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Anuschka is a German love film made in 1941 by Helmut Käutner with Hilde Krahl and Siegfried Breuer in the leading roles.
action
Somewhere in rural Moravia (western Slovakia). Anuschka Hordak is a young woman of rural blood. One day her father is seriously injured in an accident on the farm. Prof. von Hartberg, a recognized surgeon who is currently in this area with his wife Eva on vacation, is immediately asked for help, but he too can no longer save the old farmer. After the old man dies, Anuschka's circumstances worsen dramatically. Since old Hordak and his farm were heavily in debt and Anuschka cannot repay Hordak's 8,000 crowns debtor, old Marina Nowarek, the girl has to leave her father's farm. Jaro Nowarek, Marina's son, offers Anuschka a solution to the problem: He would like to marry her. But nothing comes of it, because the old woman has something against it. Instead, Mrs. Nowarek offers Anuschka a job as a maid on the farm, which no longer belongs to the Hordak family, but Anuschka indignantly rejects this. She would rather follow Prof. von Hartberg's invitation to come to Vienna in an emergency, where he would help her. In fact, she finds a job as a maid in his house. But not all is sunshine there either. In the Hartberg house, the marriage blessing is crooked. Eva von Hartberg feels neglected by her busy husband and therefore begins a liaison with lawyer Dr. Wendt.
When one day Prof. von Hartberg's present to his wife, a gold-plated lighter, disappears, Anuschka is suspected of having long fingers. How can she know that Ms. von Hartberg gave the missing present to her future lover, Dr. Wendt, "borrowed"? During the dance with Anuschka at the servants' ball for the Hartberg domestic servants, the latter secretly put the lighter in her pocket, almost as a gift, assuming that Eva had given him the lighter before. On the way home from the ball, Anuschka wanders back to the Hartbergs in a tipsy state, rests on a bench and falls asleep. The following morning a gendarme picks them up and takes Anuschka with him to the police station. When she is supposed to empty her pockets there, the lighter also shows up. Since the police assume that a maid cannot afford such an expensive item, she is immediately suspected of theft. Anuschka protests her innocence and is then accompanied by the gendarme to the Hartberg villa to clarify the matter on site. Eva von Hartberg immediately sees that it is her husband's lighter, but withholds this fact in order to give her husband, with whom she reconciled at an opera ball held parallel to the servants' ball, no reason for suspicion.
All that remains is the professor's statement. Of course, he recognizes his gift to his fickle wife immediately and is deeply disappointed by Anuschka, whom he helped in great need. Anuschka is then immediately released by him. Anuschka, who was absolutely not guilty of anything, does not want to let this suspicion sit on her and tries to find a legal representative. It is the same man who had already represented her on the matter of reprimand from her parents' court. Now things get rolling. Anuschka sued Prof. von Hartberg for an honorary parting, whose wife in turn tried, because she was to blame for this whole affair, to buy Anuschka's silence and keeping still. Since Anuschka does not want to let go of the accusation of being a thief, she rejects Eva's request. Only when the professor's wife tells of the coincidence how the lighter got into Wendt's pocket (and Anuschka now also understands why she suddenly found the precious gift in her pocket) is she ready to be silent in order to say goodbye to Eva von Hartberg's marriage save. Now Jaro Nowarek, who has traveled from Moravia, comes along and learns about the events in this way. He knows that "his" Anuschka would never steal and decides to go to Prof. von Hartberg and convince him of Anuschka's righteousness.
But with his selfless commitment, the farmer's son temporarily makes things worse. The von Hartbergs' marriage returns in the face of the whole truth, including the role played by Dr. Wendt plays in the marriage crisis back. And with regard to Anuschka, Jaro cannot imagine that her Dr. Turns the lighter without receiving (erotic) consideration. Jaro believes that his sweetheart has cheated on him and breaks up with her. Anuschka is now in top form: her pure heart commands her to single-handedly save the marriage of her new employer. Prof. von Hartberg is so touched by this that he is ready to speak to Jaro in order to put this relationship back in order. In the end, two relationships are saved, and Jaro returns home to the Hordak farm with his Anuschka.
Production notes
The filming of Anuschka began with the outdoor shots on September 15 and ended in December of the same year. The film was shot in the studios in Rome and Prague, the outdoor shots were made in Faak am See (Carinthia) and Rome. The film premiered on March 24, 1942 in two Berlin cinemas. The production cost amounted to 2,140,000 RM. This made the film relatively expensive.
Gerhard Staab was in charge of production, Emil Specht was a sound engineer. The film structures were designed by Ludwig Reiber and Rudolf Pfenninger , the costumes by Maria Pommer-Uhlig.
As a result of the filming, the Fraser play was also brought to the theater and had its world premiere in October 1942 in Wuppertal.
Hilde Krahl sang the song "Far stood the golden corn".
In 1942 the film received the state ratings of “artistically valuable” and “popularly valuable”.
reception
Paimann's film lists summed up: “Although the most opposing elements have been mixed together, this action is all of a piece. Emotions are next to reality, budoir and servants' room, opera ball and dance floor are set apart from one another and conflicts from the day before yesterday are contrasted with those that still apply today. The director brought all of this to the common denominator of a balanced and extremely effective film. The ensemble of certain characterizing actors is also significantly involved in this. "
"Above-average entertainment film set in Vienna at the turn of the century with socially critical approaches and a convincing performance by the leading actress."
"Helmut Käutner, the director, and Axel Eggebrecht, the screenwriter, portrayed the milieu convincingly."
“ ANUSCHKA was originally intended as a modern, socially critical comedy, but the Propaganda Ministry vetoed that such a thing could not happen to a German employee because she enjoyed the protection of the» labor front «. The story was therefore moved to Vienna at the turn of the century. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 22 (003.42), Berlin 2001
- ↑ Anuschka in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Anuschka in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 416 f.
- ↑ Anuschka on film.at
Web links
- Anushka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anuschka at filmportal.de
- Anuschka Complete film in the Deutsche Filmothek