Barbara (1961)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Barbara |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Frank Wisbar |
| script |
Christian Munk based on the novel of the same name (1939) by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen |
| production | Georg Mohr |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
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Barbara is a German feature film melodrama from 1961 by Frank Wisbar . Harriet Andersson (in the title role) and Helmut Griem play the main roles .
action
The story takes place on the remote Faroe Islands belonging to Denmark in the North Atlantic. There, the young doctor Paul Aggersoe succeeded his deceased predecessor and took over his island practice. It doesn't take long before he meets Barbara, his predecessor's widow. She is not of very good repute, as it is said that she is a pretty loose slut and that she was not too strict about her loyalty to her husband. Paul soon falls head over heels in love with the seductive young woman and, despite urgent warnings from the islanders, who don't think much of Barbara, they marry each other. But Paul soon realizes that the Faroe Islands do not think badly of Barbara, because she cannot help but be notoriously unfaithful.
Because island life is monotonous and the nights in winter are long and dark. During Paul's long absence, the hot-blooded doctor's wife, who cannot be unmanned for long, immediately grabs the next one. It is the former childhood friend Andreas, whom Barbara simply cannot resist. When Paul returns to home and hearth, Barbara has already moved in with her new lover. The disappointed Aggersoe can be divorced from her again and transferred to Greenland . But Barbara, by nature free-spirited, unbound and (as the TV subtitle reveals) wild as the sea, doesn't seem too concerned, because a little later she is on the beach and is waiting longingly for the new island doctor.
Production notes
Barbara , also known as Barbara - Wild wie das Meer (TV title), was made in the summer of 1961 in Denmark (studio recordings in Copenhagen). The film, which was presented to the FSK on October 30, 1961, premiered on November 28, 1961 in the Astoria cinema in Bielefeld.
The film was based on the novel of the same name by the Faroese poet Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, who died prematurely as a result of tuberculosis . It was published in 1939, one year after his death.
Irms Pauli created the extensive costume designs for Harriet Andersson . Herbert Fleischmann made his film debut here, while Erich Dunskus played his last role on the big screen. Film veteran Werner Eisbrenner also gave his farewell performance for the cinema with Barbara .
Harriet Andersson was dubbed by Ilse Kiewiet , who had already lent the actress her voice in the evening of the jugglers .
Reviews
“This story, the only novel by the Faroe Dane Jörgen Frantz Jacobsen, who died in 1939, did not want director Frank Wisbar (“ Dogs, you want to live forever ”,“ Night fell, over Gotenhafen ”) to film as a real driving drama. He transplanted the saga into the present, taking away the rest of its credibility. The charm of the Ingmar Bergman muse Harriet Andersson (in the title role) is murdered by a bland dubbing voice. "
“In 1936, before his emigration, Frank Wisbar filmed“ Ferryman Maria ”, a fateful drama full of Nordic mythical bliss. He probably wanted to take up this line again with “Barbara”. In the loneliness of the Faroe Islands, the heroine (Harriet Anderson with chalky make-up) does not come to rest: Her hot blood and the long night drive her childhood friend and husband alternately into the arms until he sails on to Greenland. Wisbar only half-heartedly confesses to the dark fatality of this story. Then he indulges in the symbolic language of the instincts: fire flickers in the fireplace, the North Sea waves roll against the rocks, the shadow of the jealous one stands on the wall. As if he were uncomfortable about it, Wisbar then tries to pull himself out of the affair again with an ironic dangling. The best are a few minutes of cultural film about landscape and sea, atmospherically photographed by Klaus von Rautenfeld. "
In Films 1959/61 the following can be read: "Sham drama in a Nordic landscape, set in the picture like careful moral films."
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Flat film adaptation of the novel, convincing only in the landscape shots, the drawing of people stuck in clichés."
Individual evidence
- ^ Films 1959/61. Handbook VI of the Catholic film criticism. P. 19
- ↑ Barbara. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 26, 2015 .
Web links
- Barbara in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Barbara at filmportal.de