Confessional Secret (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Confessional secret |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Viktor Tourjansky |
| script | Erich Ebermayer |
| production | Timotheus N. Stuloff |
| music | Lothar Bruhne |
| camera | Otto Baecker |
| cut | Walter Fredersdorf |
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Confessional Secret is a German crime and homeland film by Viktor Tourjansky from 1956.
action
Johannes Kersten takes on the vicar position in a small town. Here he meets Grete Sailer again, who works as a waitress at the Gasthof Zum kupfernen Krug . He has known her since childhood and they were both close friends. After a serious accident in Peru in which Johannes lost his sisters and parents, he was in hospital for a long time. When he wrote to Grete after his recovery, she had moved away unknown, so that contact broke off. John later discovered his calling to the priesthood. Grete has been in the small town for two years. She is with Kurt Michaelis, the inn owner's son, even if her carefree, flirtatious manner towards the guests always leads to tensions in the relationship. The village gossip takes on a new dimension when Grete visits Johannes almost every day. One day Grete confesses to the vicar that she loves him. Johannes firmly rejects them, after all they were only friends in the past. He advises her to marry Kurt, and Grete finally agrees. The engagement is announced shortly afterwards at the inn. City councilor Praun, who is not enthusiastic, has secretly loved Grete for a long time among the guests.
For the wedding, Grete's birth certificate is necessary, which Kurt hopes to receive from Praun. Praun passes him a bogus letter in which a relationship between Grete and Johannes is suggested. Kurt is madly jealous. He finds a photo in Grete's room that shows her and Johannes together at a young age. Shortly afterwards, he confronts Johannes, not far from a ravine, with his suspicion that he and Grete are having a relationship and is also violent. In the evening Kurt's body is found in the Falkenschlucht. Meanwhile, Praun seeks out Johannes and makes confession. Afterwards Johannes seems shocked by what he has heard.
Kurt's death is rated as a possible suicide, accident, or murder. The residents of the small town are interrogated and Johannes comes under suspicion. In addition to the unusual relationship between Grete and the vicar, his argument with Kurt is also considered stressful. A young man only saw them both on the street; In addition, a rosary is found on Kurt , which he had torn from Johannes during an argument. Johannes, who remains silent on the allegations, is arrested and shortly thereafter sentenced to five years in prison. Some people present suspect that he knows the real perpetrator, but is condemned to silence by the secret of confession . Praun wants to leave town. He confesses his love for Grete and asks her to go with him. Grete firmly rejects him. Only now does Praun turn himself in to the police and admits that he accidentally pushed Kurt down the gorge in a scuffle. Johannes is released from prison. He advises Grete, who wants to leave the small town, to stay because she has found a new family here. He himself will shortly receive a new parish through the bishop, who never mistrusted him.
production
Confessional Secret was filmed in the CCC Studios in Berlin. The costumes created Elisabeth Daum , the Filmbauten come from Max Mellin and Wolf Englert . The film premiered on July 18, 1956 in Luli in Nuremberg and was shown three days later in German cinemas.
criticism
“Folk crime entertainment,” stated the film service .
Web links
- Confessional in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Confessional secret at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Confessional secret. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .