Carola Lamberti - One from the circus
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Carola Lamberti - One from the circus |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Hans Müller |
| script | A. Artur Kuhnert |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Gerd Natschinski |
| camera | Fritz Lehmann |
| cut |
Marianne Karras , Hildegard Tegener |
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Carola Lamberti - Eine vom Zirkus is a DEFA German circus film directed by Hans Müller in 1954.
action
The year 1928: Carola Lamberti has been running the Lamberti Circus alone for many years after the death of her husband. Her three sons Pero, Camillo and Eduard as well as their daughter Ines are integrated in their troop. With a trapeze act as "Drei Lambertis", the sons form one of the highlights of every performance. The other is the equestrian number of the rider Viola. However, much to Carola’s displeasure, she starts a relationship with many circus artists. When she gets involved with her son Pero, who then abandons the horses while the circus is moving and puts her life in danger, Carola has enough. She dismisses Viola, and Pero, who feels he is being patronized by his mother, goes with her. Now the circus is missing the two main attractions, as the three Lambertis cannot perform their trapeze act in pairs. Carola, however, refuses to admit that a circus also needs renovation.
At the opening show in a new town, she replaced Viola's number with an artistic number of her daughter Ines, who had just recently injured her ankle and fell during the performance. Carola herself jumps in for her in the performance and presents an old-fashioned horse dressage number that makes the audience increasingly restless. Carola is booed and only Pero, who was brought back to the circus by a guilty conscience, can save the evening with his brothers and the trapeze act. Carola realizes that she has to leave the circus to her sons and retires to the circus winter camp away from the performances.
The three sons now organize everything themselves, but increasingly become Viola's plaything, who secretly maintains relationships with Pero and Eduard Lamberti. Camillo Lamberti, in turn, is ignorantly involved in Viola's plans by his brothers, so both convince him that the circus needs a more modern band. Viola also ensures that the circus does not go to winter camp during the winter, but rather goes on its first international tour - Viola does not want to be confronted with Carola in winter camp. Ines rushes to her mother, who is now organizing a circus show for a friend in Hamburg , and asks her to follow the brothers on their international tour, as neither of them have any experience in terms of money or organization. Carola, having learned from the mistakes of the past, refuses. Her sons will fetch her when they really need her. Now they would just feel patronized again.
Finally, on the tour it comes to the point that there is no food for the animals. The purchase of bread rations for the animals costs the laboriously saved money. Pero catches Eduard with Viola and a fight breaks out between the two brothers. Ines dismisses Viola. On the evening of the performance, Eduard is so weakened from the fight with Pero that he falls from the trapeze and has to be carried out of the hall unconscious. The brothers now ask their mother Carola to come back to the circus. From Hamburg she goes to the circus, where she is finally welcomed by everyone with open arms.
production
Carola Lamberti - One of the circus was based on an idea by Henny Porten . It was shot shortly after the events of June 17, 1953 , when, on the one hand, non-political films were made and, on the other, German-German cinema was still being sought.
The Babelsberg studio served as the studio . The circus building in the film was that of the Circus Sarrasani , which was built on the DEFA premises. Artur Günther and Hans Minzloff were responsible for the buildings , while Eduard Kubat was in charge of production . The premiere of the film took place on November 30, 1954 in Berlin's "Babylon".
criticism
The contemporary criticism said that Carola Lamberti - Eine vom Zirkus is “neither a very new nor a very important subject, but Hans Müller's direction has tailored it with a dynamic and practiced hand in the style of tried and tested patterns”.
The Lexicon of International Films described the film as a "DEFA circus film, in which the generational conflict in a family of artists is dealt with in a conventional manner".
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 93-94 .
Web links
- Carola Lamberti - One of the circus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carola Lamberti - One from the circus at filmportal.de
- Carola Lamberti - one of the circus at the DEFA Foundation