Ina Kahr's confession
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| Original title | Ina Kahr's confession |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | GW Pabst |
| script | Erna Fentsch based on the illustrated novel in hearing and seeing by Ernst Diets |
| production | Omega-Film GmbH, Berlin ( Alfred Bittins ) |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Herbert Taschner |
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The Confession of Ina Kahr is a German married drama from 1954 by GW Pabst with Curd Jürgens and Elisabeth Müller in the leading roles as a married couple in the crisis.
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The story begins with the end: Ina Kahr, a well-behaved, young and faithful wife, poisoned her husband Paul and, because she has reported herself, is now on trial for this serious crime. She admits everything without getting involved in the matter and is consequently sentenced to death in the first instance. Attorney Dr. In the retrial, Pleyer desperately wants to bring the true background to this act of desperation to light and fights with serious zeal for his client, with whom he has fallen in love. Now Ina Kahr tells - in flashbacks - the story of suffering of her marriage. Everything had started so well ...
Ina Kahr had a sheltered childhood. Her confession begins when she was still living with her grandmother in the sparkling clean household of her father, a scientist. She gained her first professional experience as an assistant to her father. One day she met the brisk Paul Kahr, head of advertising at Sörensen, a smart, urbane and yet a little windy woman beggar who likes to pick up Ina with his streamlined sports car. Ina Kahr is a typical product of her time: well-behaved, demure, completely subordinate to the wishes of men. And so she does not resist the temptation to be beguiled by the Luftikus Paul, whom she genuinely loves, but who is neither capable of profound relationships nor of loyalty: first with a cup of coffee at the rendezvous at the lake and finally also, in which she accepts his marriage proposal.
Ina Kahr knows how to behave, she “works” as one would expect from a West German wife from the Adenauer era. She is fascinated by the “whole guy” Paul, who says sentences like “You don't know how I lived. Drinking and women. I go to the dogs when I can't find a person. You, that don't go well with me, I'm scared. But I'm too cowardly to break up. I need you, my sweet, beloved little girl. ”For Ina, Paul also signals how much he needs the“ rescue ”, the redemption through a perfectly good (housewife) mistress like her. But the marriage of these two fundamentally different people quickly turns into a catastrophe. While Ina hopes to be able to “tame” her new husband through her domesticity and bravery, Paul remains the old one: hunter-gatherer, drunkard and professional woman-pleaser. He cheats Ina to the end of the line with apparently vicious and provocative women, night owls and bargoers like him, while Ina is always surrounded by the staid flair of a governess.
First of all, Marianne, who has always had an eye on the serious blower, sinks into Paul's arms. Marianne of all people, Ina's best friend! Paul's “excuse”, if you want to call the explanation of his behavior like that, to his shocked wife is quite succinct: “A spark jumps out of a glance, out of nowhere, and sloppy as the man is ... “, Paul tries to apologize for his behavior towards Ina. Ina swallows…. and accepts everything resignedly. Almost accusingly, he speaks to her: “It's grotesque. You sit there torturing yourself, and I have the feeling: What happened? ”“ And if it were the other way around? ”Ina asks her husband. He would probably kill her, says Paul, and that's how Ina realizes that with this man her only feasible behavior in the future would be to always forgive his cheating if she didn't want to leave him. Without a hint of sarcasm, Paul replies: “You are a wonderful woman.” The “wonderful woman” begins to look only to herself and to suffer quietly. Ina is able to convince Paul to leave the Sörensen company in order to become self-employed, but of course also in order to escape the constant temptation of Marianne who also worked there. Paul obeys and founds his own small advertising company with Ina's money. But the temptations don't go away, they just get a different name, a different face. The new one is called Cora and is his business partner ...
Again Paul vacillates between self-knowledge and accusations: He says “I am a monster”, but also, turning to Cora: “You allow the men to occupy their imaginations with you.” The next in Paul's long row is called Helga, once did applied for a job at Paul's company under the male name Helmut and now gets to feel a lot more from the new boss than she expected. The mentally battered Ina and Helga talk to each other, both women come to a rational solution. Then the decisive sentence falls: "Paul has to destroy himself and the others". Ina realizes that she will never and also cannot change her husband. Helga, who once grew up in Japan, is returning to Asia, and Ina is unjustly accused by Paul of having destroyed his happiness by talking to Helga. She wants to leave him and yet she has to realize that Paul is degenerating more and more inside and out. She sees her last chance to end his miserable existence by killing him and herself too. And so they both take their beloved cup of coffee, but this time Paul's is poisoned. With his last breath he even thanks Ina's act, born of grace and compassion.
Ina's attempt on her own life is unsuccessful, however, she survived her suicide attempt and is now on trial. Dr. Pleyer fights like a lion and is quite confident that the harsh judgment of the first instance will be overturned. In fact, the court appears to be understanding and the new judgment shows a lot of understanding for Ina Kahr's actions. Now she and her lawyer can hope for a future together. After only a few months behind bars, Ina's beaming father brings his daughter, who has been "liberated" in every respect, to his home.
Production notes
Ina Kahr's confession was made between July 27 and September 3, 1954 in the Bavaria Film studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig and in Grünwald and Feldafing (both near Munich) and was premiered on November 12, 1954 in Bielefeld and Bonn . On November 16, 1965, the first television broadcast took place on DFF 1 (GDR).
Otto Pischinger and his future wife Herta Hareiter designed the film structures, Hannes Staudinger was a simple cameraman under Günther Anders ' chief camera. The production management was in the hands of Auguste Barth-Reuss .
Awards
The FBL awarded the film the title valuable .
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "One of the flashback courtroom films, despite strong secondary scenes (Renate Mannhardt), its audience response depends on the attitudes towards the excellently interpreted main characters, but at least ... remarkably effective on women."
“The protagonist in INA KAHR … doesn't want to be Willy Birgel. He is essentially an anti-citizen, a creative who does not like to be secured with the ordered scaffolding, but cannot find any other life. Sex and alcohol are the way he gets stubbornly. He's not comfortable with that, he's looking for a savior. The figure of the self-sacrificing, loving woman plays a key role in the reintegration of derailed and feral men into bourgeois society after the war. Holy seriousness, deadly severity, serious weighing. It is of the last importance of the judiciary to get to the bottom of what has happened in order to find out what is right and wrong doing and who is to be held accountable. Judging is tightly lashed around people, bridles and saddles so that they jump or dance. "
"The once renowned director GW Pabst (' Die joyllose Gasse ', 1925; ' Dreigroschenoper ', 1931) failed to make a film adaptation of a magazine novel into a lewd detective melodrama."
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 399 f.
- ↑ Ina Kahr 's confession in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The confession of Ina Kahr at hardsensations.com
- ↑ The Confession of Ina Kahr. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 21, 2017 .
Web links
- The Confession of Ina Kahr in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ina Kahr's confession at filmportal.de