Nora's ark
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| Original title | Nora's ark |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 82 minutes |
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| Director | Werner Klingler |
| script | Harald G. Petersson |
| production | Walter Koppel |
| music | Willi Kollo |
| camera | Eugen Klagemann |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
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Arche Nora is a 1947 German time drama by Werner Klingler with the experienced theater and film actor Willy Maertens in a leading role. At his side are the young mimes Claus Hofer , Harry Meyen and Edith Schneider as Nora, all of whom are film debutants. With this production, after a break of around 15 years, regular feature film production began again in Hamburg.
action
In the early years after World War II ended. Germany is in ruins, and young people only want to look ahead, in search of small, private happiness and a better, peaceful future. For the two young returnees from the war, Klaus Schriewer and Peter Stoll, who have secured their economic survival with a small handcart transport company, this means first of all the search for reasonably habitable accommodation. Both friends have found a shipwreck, a former fishing trawler, that they call "Noah's Ark" and that they want to make their habitable home more beautiful.
One day a young woman, Nora, joins the two life-affirming guys. She is pregnant, a condition that is not exactly unproblematic in these tough times. Nora is deeply desperate and wants to end her life voluntarily, especially since her husband Jochen, who was traumatized during the war, is not a support for her. He has not only lost his economic existence, but has also lost all his courage to live and has fallen into deep resignation. Peter and Klaus save Nora from a great stupidity, and for a while the “Noah's Ark” becomes “Nora's Arche”. Klaus and Peter become the epitome of a hope-creating generation that no longer looks back and just wants to dare a new beginning. They show imperturbable build-up mentality and infect the apparently failed married couple with their positivism, so that there is another chance for Nora's and Jochen's marriage.
Production notes
Arche Nora was made in July 1947 as the first production of Hamburg's Real Film (Trebitsch, Koppel) in what would later be Studio Hamburg , a former inn, and was premiered on February 6, 1948 in Hamburg's Waterloo cinema.
Gyula Trebitsch was the production manager. Herbert Kirchhoff designed the film structures. Robert Fehrmann took care of the sound. Film editor Klaus Dudenhöfer was allowed to edit a film independently for the first time.
The later film director and producer Hans Billian played his only film role here.
This production was a so-called exchange film West Germany / Central Germany. On May 28, 1948 he was seen for the first time in East Berlin.
Reviews
On the occasion of the premiere, Der Spiegel said: “The film says yes to life from the rubble perspective without cheap optimism and without belittling time. A film without phrases and soul acrobatics, with young people who are really young, not just masked. "
Erika Müller wrote on the occasion of the Hamburg premiere in Die Zeit : “Hamburg, the new film city, basked in the - festive premiere of the first film by the Real Film Production Company 'Arche Nora' ... In the outer splendor of a premiere, as one would expect radiant after the war. (...) It was as if the times were better and this film was good ... (...) An intense one. The milieu portrayal of our ruined reality: this is what this film wanted, but - and this but it won applause - optimism and humor are the leitmotifs. Certainly, this smile under the ruins is still close to the smile under tears. However, a courageous invitation to move from passivity to active action, from self-pity to laughing freedom of those who are truly independent from the earthly goods of this world - this lingering is also worth something, even if it does not succeed. (…) Edith Schneider graceful and personable, a simple, brave girl of today; Harry Meyen rough but sensitive, and Klaus Hofer. rough but cordial, two young boys with courage to live. By the way, this is a mediocre film. The vital music of Willi Kollos supports the director, spirited and in a good mood ... "
"Typical example of the 'rubble film', which, with touches of humor, wants to expressly suggest the will to survive and to rebuild."
Individual evidence
- ^ "Arche Nora" is launched in Der Spiegel on July 19, 1947
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 17
- ^ Critique in Der Spiegel of February 14, 1948
- ^ Review in Die Zeit of February 12, 1948
- ↑ Nora's Ark in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on June 19, 2019
Web links
- Arche Nora in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Arche Nora at filmportal.de