Until the end of days
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Until the end of days |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Peter Wirth |
| script |
Oliver Hassencamp , Kurt Heuser |
| production |
Seymour minor number , Wolf Black |
| music | Michel Michelet |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Lilian Seng |
| occupation | |
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Until the End of All Days is a German love drama from 1961 that was filmed by Franz Peter Wirth . The film is based on the novel Brackwasser by Heinrich Hauser . The German theatrical release was on August 29, 1961. The television premiere was on October 10, 1970 on ZDF.
The film is considered to be one of the first debates on the topic of hostility towards foreigners in a German feature film.
action
The film describes the reactions of the inhabitants of a small town on a Hallig to the appearance of the Chinese night club dancer Anna as the lover of the sailor Glen. Due to constant hostility and deliberately spread rumors, Anna has to leave the place in the end.
production
Until the End of All Days , the film was shot at various locations between March 2 and May 10, 1961: in Hong Kong, Hamburg and on Pellworm Island. The film had its world premiere on August 29, 1961. The TV first broadcast took place on October 10, 1970 on ZDF .
Producer and Hollywood homecomer Seymour Nebenzahl was also responsible for the line-up. Until the End of Days was his only German post-war film and at the same time his last film ever. Nebenzahl died three and a half weeks after the premiere.
The production line had Fritz Hoppe , the buildings are from the hand of Hans Berthel and John Ott . Rolf Kästel was a simple cameraman under the direction of chief cameraman Klaus von Rautenfeld . Claus von Boro , otherwise mostly working as a film editor, worked as an assistant director for this production.
The film was in parts clearly inspired by the previous British film The World of Suzie Wong , which was a huge hit with audiences.
reception
“With a sideways glance at Suzie Wong's popular success, Franz-Peter Wirth has now filmed the story of the dancing girl Anna Suh based on Hauser's novel" Brackwasser ". The Chinese, portrayed very convincingly by the enchanting Japanese Akiko with quiet charm, falls in love with a sailor who takes her to his native North Sea island. Between rumgrog, village gossip and rough winds, the "Asian flower" thrives so badly that it turns its back on the hostile islanders and moves to St. Pauli. The sailor has to go after his slit-eyed wife with wild determination in order to force an artificial happy ending that corresponds to German tastes. Akiko is the eye-catcher, the attraction of this technically complex film. Her partner Helmut Griem is the first over-sensitive, sensitive, intellectual sailor on German canvas. There is his friend Hanns Lothar, for the first time with a real Hamburg tone, already cut from a different cloth. They tried to deliver a good average consumption. "
In the magazine Der Spiegel it is said, "on the long journey the script steers towards every cliché of the seaman's gossip that appears on the horizon". The director and camera kept the picture “carefully clean of any particles of reality that could disturb the film's sterile marine romance”. The time judged similarly: "The film tells for the thousandth time the story of the sailor with the child mind and the prostitute with the pure heart [...] who [keeps away] any hint of reality." Only the "dry comic special show by Hanns Lothar was praised." as a seaman patted in all ports of the world ”. The lexicon of international films described the film as a "mediocre filmmaker". The evangelical film observer , on the other hand, has a good opinion of the work : “The relationship between the two [main characters] is presented in a recognizable, sensitive way, and it has also succeeded in capturing the atmosphere of the island village and the character and uniqueness of its residents. "
Web links
- Until the end of time in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Until the end of the day at filmportal.de
- Until the end of the day in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Until the end of days. Filmportal.de , accessed on September 19, 2014 .
- ^ Until the End of All Days (1961) - Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 19, 2014 .
- ^ A b Jochen Neubauer: Turkish Germans, Kanaksters and Deutschländer. Identity and perception of others in film and literature: Fatih Akin, Thomas Arslan, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Zafer Şenocak and Feridun Zaimoğlu . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2011, p. 171
- ^ Until the end of all days (Germany). MOVIE. DER SPIEGEL 37/1961, accessed on September 19, 2014 .
- ↑ pat: Film - Until the end of days. Die Zeit , October 6, 1961, accessed on September 19, 2014 .
- ^ Until the end of all days in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 563/1961