Liberated hands
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Liberated hands |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Schweikart |
| script | Kurt Heuser |
| production | Curt Prickler (manufacturing group) |
| music | Lothar Brühne using a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven |
| camera |
Carl Hoffmann Heinz Schnackertz |
| cut | Johanna Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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Exempt hands is a German film drama from the artistic milieu of 1939. Under the direction of Hans Schweikart play Ewald Balser and Brigitte Horney the leading roles. Olga Chekhova and Carl Raddatz have other leading roles .
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The simple Landpomeranze Dürthen is a simple, calm and very sincere, down to earth young woman. She has an illegitimate son named Jens, whom she loves very much. The child's father is strict and hard-hearted, which is why Dürthen has become estranged from him. The girl earns her living as a shepherdess, but her artistic love is carving small wooden figures. She has a secret admirer in Joachim von Erken, the son of the landowner, who is socially significantly higher-ranking, but for the time being he does not openly acknowledge her for reasons of class. When one day the Berliner Kerstin Thomas, who runs an art dealership in the capital, visits von Erkens, she is immediately fascinated by Dürthen's small figures. She recognizes some talent in Dürthen's works. Kerstin makes Dürthen the offer to come with her to continue her artistic education in Berlin. But since Jens cannot come, the shepherdess turns down the offer. Jens dies a little later in a terrible accident. Now the deeply broken Dürthen has absolutely nothing to do with her previous center of life, and she goes to Berlin.
At first she was only allowed to paint porcelain dolls in Kerstin's studio, but that is clearly not enough for Dürthen. Kerstin then gives her the opportunity to carve herself, with which Dürthen arouses the interest of the experienced art professor and sculptor Wolfram. He teaches the country girl the basics of sculpture. The boy von Erken is visiting Kerstin Thomas and is impressed by Dürthen's work, which he believes are from Kerstin. That leaves him in his faith. When Dürthen arrives, the two women immediately have a heated argument. Kerstin throws Dürthen out of her four walls, but van Erken takes Dürthen's side after learning of Kerstin's attempt at fraud. The two young people travel to Italy together to enjoy a brief moment of happiness. When Dürthen meets Professor Wolfram again in Rome, she soon realizes that her true calling can only lie in art and separates from Joachim, who is completely different from her in his whole being. Wolfram and Dürthen return to his studio and get to work. A personal happiness also develops between the two very similar people.
Production notes
The shooting of Liberated Hands dragged on from the beginning of August to the end of September 1939. The studio recordings were made in the Bavaria studios near Munich, the outdoor recordings on Capri and in or near Husum. The film premiered on December 20, 1939 in the Luitpold Theater in Munich; the Berlin premiere was on March 18, 1940 in the Gloria Palast . The first German television broadcast took place on October 15, 1954 on ARD .
Bavaria producer Curt Prickler also took over the production management. Ludwig Reiber and Willi Depenau created the film structures. Ruth Wagner designed the costumes. Werner Jacobs was an assistant director.
The production costs were moderate 712,000 RM, until February 1941 about 3,289,000 RM had been taken at the box office. This made Liberated Hands a huge commercial success.
reception
Boguslaw Drewniak wrote about Ewald Balser in his book Der deutsche Film 1938-1945 : "His role ... one of the critics called his role" one of the most mature achievements of an artistic nature that German film has seen in recent years ". And it wasn't too much of an exaggeration in these words. "
"A respectably staged and played artist film with an inadequately constructed plot that cannot deny its commitment to" healthy folk art "in the sense of Nazi ideology."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 10th year 1939. P. 28 f. (008.39), Berlin 1999
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 104
- ↑ Liberated hands in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on March 24, 2020
Web links
- Exempt hands in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Free hands at filmportal.de