Goodbye, Franziska
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| Original title | Goodbye, Franziska |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script | Helmut Käutner, Curt J. Braun |
| production | Terra-Filmkunst GmbH, production group Hans Tost |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Jan Roth |
| cut | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
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Goodbye, Franziska is a German feature film by Helmut Käutner from 1941. As a propaganda film initially banned after 1945, it has been allowed to be shown almost completely again since the 1980s. Wolfgang Liebeneiner shot in 1957 with Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska! a remake .
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A small town in late autumn 1932: the young Franziska gets to know and love the photo reporter and weekly viewer Michael. After a first night together, he has to travel to work for a New York agency and Franziska is left alone. She gets into an argument with her father about Michael because she now wants to stand on her own two feet and rejects his care. She moved to Berlin, where she opened her own small studio for miniature toys and was more than able to make ends meet. After a year, Michael announces himself to her. She pretends not to love him and to be free and independent, but in the end she confesses her love to him. He proposes to her and she agrees despite concerns. Since he has to leave the country for a job the very next day, she moves back to her home village - to Michael's villa, which she and the housekeeper are renovating and furnishing to make it cozy. She is pregnant by Michael, but hides this from her father.
Michael tries to get free from his New York boss because of the upcoming wedding to Franziska. When this is not possible, he wants to quit, but his boss insists on fulfilling the contract by summer 1939. When Michael Franziska announces in writing that he will not be back until spring or summer, she is disappointed. Michael learns far from home that he has become the father of a son. He terminates his contract and returns to Franziska. After his return, Franziska is reconciled with her father, who is now seeing his grandchild for the first time.
He can stand it as a househusband with her for a year, then he secretly registers at his New York agency and wants to work as an international reporter again. Franziska suspects what he's up to and lets him go. She is pregnant again by him, but after the birth of their daughter she becomes depressed. Even the announcement that Michael will come to visit does not build her, as she knows that he will be leaving soon. During Michael's brief visit, her despair breaks out of her and she begs him not to leave her again. There is an argument.
Franziska decides to divorce Michael, as the children also suffer from the father's absence. They would rather have Christoph Leitner as their father, Franziska's good friend, who, however, had proposed marriage to her for free in the past. Franziska first reveals to him that she wants to separate from Michael and hires a divorce lawyer to draw up the papers.
War has broken out in China and Michael and his good friend Buck are on the front lines as war reporters. When Buck is shot, Michael remembers his family and returns home. Meanwhile the Second World War has begun. Christoph Leitner has reported as a soldier and goes to war. Franziska says goodbye to him at the train station, as she always did with Michael. He now wants to stay at home, although Franziska now wants to know him at the front and he has already received a draft order for a propaganda company. In response to his objection that he couldn't leave her alone again, Franziska replies: “You can't do it now, where it makes sense for the first time?” Michael finds the divorce papers with her almost convinced and thinks that she just wants to get rid of him because she's already given up on their relationship anyway. The papers, however, are a few months old. Only the singing of the two children reconciles Michael with Franziska, who now takes him to the train station.
production
Goodbye, Franziska was shot from October 30, 1940 to mid-February 1941. The interior shots were shot in the Ufa studio in Berlin-Tempelhof , while the exterior shots were shot in Burghausen an der Salzach . The premiere took place on April 24, 1941 in the Atlantik-Palast in Munich, and the film was positively received by the audience. On May 6, 1941, Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska was shown for the first time in the Capitol am Zoo in Berlin. The film received the rating "artistically valuable" from the National Socialist film testing agency.
By December 1941, the film grossed 3,113,000 Reichsmarks. After the end of the Second World War , the film was banned by the Allies and was only allowed to be shown in a version shortened by nine minutes in 1951. The film, which lacked the end, was now allowed from the age of 16. In 1983 the film was re-examined, which has since been allowed to be shown in a length of 97 minutes and has been approved by the FSK for ages 6 and up.
Temporal classification and criticism
On 1 September 1939, Adolf Hitler demanded in view of the beginning of the war against Poland in his speech to the Reichstag that the woman "to INSERT into iron discipline exemplary in this great fighting community [should s]". The last sequence of the film addresses this requirement:
“The film is intended to comfort the countless German women who were lonely by the war. Like Franziska, women should put their personal feelings aside as long as the well-being of the nation is at stake. "
The contemporary criticism also emphasized the propagandistic content of the film, it was said that Marianne Hoppe played “wonderfully strange […] the martyrdom of the brave waiting woman” and that Hans Söhnker as a reporter “only made sense as a PK man when the war broke out his professional activity recorded ”.
The contemporary critics praised the script as "thoughtfully and in the form carefully designed manuscript" and emphasized Käutner's "idiosyncratic [...] and excellent [...] direction", which emphasizes the psychological level:
“It is a psychological film, if you may say so, a game of the soul, a game of inner tension, in which there is little of what is otherwise dramaturgically understood by the term 'plot'. […] Käutner, Hoppe and Söhnker, these three artists vouch for us that we are not attempting an absurdly 'interesting' experiment, but that a film is being made here that really shapes the soul. "
In 1954, Georg Herzberg stated that the love scenes in the film in particular "have the same magic as fourteen years ago thanks to the brilliant dialogues, the effective direction and the rousing presentation", and Döring-Film promoted the re-release of the film 1950s exclusively with the names of the well-known actors who would vouch for the success of the film. The remake from 1957 completely hides the Second World War and stages the ending completely differently.
The lexicon of international film rated Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska 1990 as "staged by Käutner with charm and sensitivity", while the film service describes him as "conventionally, but quickly staged, with a clear drop in tension towards the end".
See also
literature
- Goodbye, Franziska . In: Rolf Giesen, Manfred Hobsch: Hitler Youth Quex, Jud Süss and Kolberg. The propaganda films of the Third Reich. Documents and materials on Nazi films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, pp. 342-345.
Web links
- Goodbye, Franziska in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Goodbye, Franziska at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rolf Giesen, Manfred Hobsch: Hitler Youth Quex, Jud Süss and Kolberg. The propaganda films of the Third Reich. Documents and materials on Nazi films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, p. 345.
- ↑ Films we saw: Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska . In: Filmwelt, No. 21, May 23, 1941, p. 558.
- ^ A b Wilhelm Grundschöttel: Goodbye, Franziska . In: The attack - daily newspaper of the German Labor Front . No. 110, May 7, 1941.
- ↑ Hansjürgen Wille: Goodbye, Franziska! In: Filmkurier , No. 1, January 3, 1941, W. 15.
- ↑ Georg Herzberg in 1954 in the film Echo . Quoted from Rolf Giesen, Manfred Hobsch: Hitler Youth Quex, Jud Süss and Kolberg. The propaganda films of the Third Reich. Documents and materials on Nazi films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, p. 344.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 215.
- ↑ Goodbye, Franziska. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .