The young lady and the vagabond
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The young lady and the vagabond |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Albert Benitz |
| script |
Rolf Meyer Ernst Keienburg |
| production | Rolf Meyer |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Arndt von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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Das Fräulein und der Vagabund is a German comedy film by the cameraman Albert Benitz with Eva-Ingeborg Scholz and John Pauls-Harding as well as the two young characters Dietmar Schönherr and Hardy Krüger in the leading roles.
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The young Hannes, the vagabond that gives the title, is a light-hearted Luftikus who likes to hang out with women, but never really has serious intentions. One day he comes to a pretty, somewhat sleepy-looking north German village in the Lüneburg Heath . Here his latest “victim” is the neat, not yet fully trained village school teacher Regine, who promptly falls in love with the carefree womanizer. The fun-loving Regine is not at all free and independent, but much more engaged to the young civil servant Gerhard Renken. He is quite conventional, not very spontaneous and in many ways cannot keep up with the exuberant Regine. Hannes is completely different; Regine was very impressed by his latest idea: he did not “borrow” a carriage legally in order to take Regine on a romantic tour through the area and especially through the lovely heathland. It comes as it has to: The two spend the next night together.
Since Hannes is the complete opposite of the somewhat boring and stuffy Gerhard, Regine broke off her engagement to the official the following day and gave up her secure position as a village school teacher. But Hannes does not want to commit himself, and as expected, he reacts negatively to Regine's intention to now want to spend her life with him. Now Regine no longer has a husband at her side and she decides to leave her heather home. In view of the news that her son is no longer engaged to Regine, Gerhard's mother rushes to the train station and can convince Regine that Gerhard absolutely needs her. Because this young man is also prone to short-circuit reactions and is suddenly as if swallowed by the earth. All he left behind was a disturbing message for his mother. Gerhard and Hannes meet, and a heated argument ensues, while Hannes makes it clear to ex Regines, who is now suddenly hot-headed, that she really only loves him. The next morning, Regine is picked up by her school class for a trip to the heath that was promised some time ago. In the heath, Regine meets Gerhard, who as a “new student” also wants to learn from Regine, albeit in a completely different way than the students. Hannes is no longer holding anything in the heather and he moves on.
Production notes
The shooting took place from April 1949 in the Junge Film-Union-Studios in Bendestorf and in the Lüneburg Heath . The premiere was on November 1, 1949 in the Harvestehuder Lichtspiele in Hamburg, in Berlin the film started on January 26, 1950.
Georg Mohr took over the production management, Erich Grave designed the film structures. Friedrich Albrecht was responsible for the sound.
For Schönherr and Krüger this was already the second joint film work; both made their debut in 1943/44 in the Nazi propaganda film Junge Adler .
The film was the biggest failure in the young history of the producing Junge Film-Union. Despite the low cost of 350,000 DM - the cheapest JFU production ever - Das Fräulein und der Vagabund only brought in 110,000 DM.
Reviews
The film was a bitter failure when it was shown, not least because of what was felt at the time as the moral dubiousness of the young protagonists. “In its“ film service ”the Catholic Church advised against visiting the film, the Protestant Church also spoke out against it, and the Saarland government even forbade its public performance on its territory,” as the Hanover Film Institute recalled.
In the lexicon of international film it says: "... without artistic ambition and great entertainment value."
Cinema judged: “Heimatromanze, as flat as the Lüneburg Heath”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Das Fräulein und der Vagabund on filminstitut-hannover.de
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ The Miss and the Vagabond. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Short review on cinema.de
Web links
- The young lady and the tramp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Miss and the Vagabond at filmportal.de