The bath on the threshing floor (1943)

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Movie
Original title The bathroom on the threshing floor
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1943
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Volker von Collande
script Rolf Meyer
Herbert Tjaden's
Volker von Collande
production Jürgen Clausen for the Tobis film art (Berlin)
music Theo Mackeben
camera Andor by Barsy
Hermann Wallbrück
cut Walter von Bonhorst
occupation

The bath on the threshing floor is a German film swank from 1942 with Will Dohm and Heli Finkenzeller in the lead roles in the style of a baroque custom painting . Directed by Volker von Collande .

action

Flanders in the late 17th century. The wealthy merchant Fernando Sartorius stops in the village of Terbrügg while passing through. Here he meets the mayor's wife, Antje, who he likes extremely well. The young woman is also taken with the handsome merchant, especially since her own husband has been neglecting her lately. Sartorius is staying in the mayor's house and has brought his own bathtub with him, which he immediately fills with hot water. The bath tub and the delicious, perfumed scents of the bathroom arouse desires in Ms. Antje, and so Sartorius leaves it to her when he leaves.

Since a bathtub is something so extraordinary for the backward villagers and farmers, there is soon trouble. Antje's jealous husband first banishes the bathtub from his house, whereupon Antje takes it to the barn, on the threshing floor , and has the maids Stin and Nina fill it up. While Antje is taking the first full bath of her life, the men in town use the opportunity to watch the mayor's wife through a knothole in the barn wall. What we have seen is enough to properly fuel the village gossip about the good figure of Frau Antje. In order to expose those of the men who have mutated into lustful tensioners, Antje soots the part of the barn wall that is around the knothole. Instead of Antje, the next time the maid Stin is supposed to take a bath stark naked. When, finally, numerous men with soot-smeared faces are confronted by their wives - including the oh so morally determined mayor himself - the house blessing hangs hugely crooked in some places in the village.

In view of these disagreements, a momentous decision soon matures: The tub must go! The villagers get rid of the "newfangled" part in a profane way by stealing it from the threshing floor and hurling it into the nearby quarry. When this case goes to court, all men in the village plead guilty. However, Antje demands a new bathtub, and so the local cooper has to make one. Barely finished, Ms. Antje first takes a bath. But wheels were secretly screwed on to the tub below, and so it starts rolling during their bath until it lands on the village square. This mishap brings the mayor and his wife back together. When on the way back from his trading trip, the merchant Sartorius stops again in the village to pay Antje a visit, he, too, no longer poses a threat to the newly discovered marital happiness.

production

The film began on April 15, 1942 with the studio recordings in Berlin-Johannisthal and Berlin-Grunewald . The exterior shots were taken from the end of June 1942. The world premiere took place on July 30, 1943 in two Berlin movie theaters.

The original material by Rolf Meyer provided the basis for this film . The bath on the threshing floor was given the title “Popularly valuable”.

After Volker von Collande was able to land a great success with audiences and critics with his directorial debut, the Berlin Everyday Story Two in a Big City , at the beginning of 1942 , the producing Tobis handed him over the direction of Das Bad auf der Tenne , the first color film, that same year this production company.

The bath on the threshing floor was the fourth full-length color film of the German Reich.

Apart from the camerawork of the documentary film specialist Andor von Barsy , the greatest merits of the film lie in the massive “baroque” backdrops. Film architect Gabriel Pellon designed an impressive ensemble of “Flemish” town houses and rural farm parlors.

The two main actors Will Dohm and Heli Finkenzeller were actually a married couple. Two months after the premiere of the film, their daughter Gaby Dohm was born.

Three songs by Theo Mackeben can be heard in the film : It's nice to travel like this, Nocturnal love song and Do you see the shimmer of the stars . Günther Schwenn wrote the lyrics .

The film, which was complex to produce, was a huge box-office success despite the high costs. The production devoured 1.527 million Reichsmarks and brought in a total of 4.627 million Reichsmarks by April 1944.

Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels is said to have judged the film negatively, possibly due to excessive freedom of movement - several scenes show recordings of the three scantily clad women who were later "defused" on Goebbels' orders. Bogusław Drewniak wrote in Der deutsche Film 1938–1945 : "Goebbels was not exactly thrilled by the film, which was not without consequences for the award of prizes and the recomendation of the film."

The bath on the threshing floor was also performed in Sweden and Finland in October 1943 . The Danish premiere took place in January 1944. In Italy , the film had its premiere in Milan in the summer of 1944 , as this part of the country, which was meanwhile at war with Germany, was still occupied by German troops.

The bath on the threshing floor was re-filmed in 1955 by Paul Martin under the same title with Sonja Ziemann and Paul Klinger .

criticism

The lexicon of international films called the film "a rough erotic comedy."

In Heinrich Fraenkel's immortal film you can read about Das Bad auf der Tenne : "It is a fake of knothole-gazers and hypocritical moral preachers in the Flemish village environment."

The online presence of the magazine Cinema described the film as a "milieu sketch with rural eroticism"

See also

Individual evidence

  1. The large personal dictionary of the film , Volume 1, p. 264 speaks of "splendid, indulgent color photography"
  2. Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 178.
  3. Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, Volume 12, year 1942/1943. Berlin 2001, p. 124 f.
  4. ^ The German Film 1938–1945. A general overview, p. 672, Düsseldorf 1987
  5. Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 1, p. 253. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  6. Immortal Film: The Great Chronicle from the First Sound to the Colored Widescreen, p. 410. Munich 1957
  7. The bath on the threshing floor in cinema.de

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