The girl Marion

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Movie
Original title The girl Marion
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Wolfgang Schleif
script Felix Lützkendorf
production Hans Raspotnik
music Mark Lothar
camera Igor Oberberg
cut Hermann Ludwig
occupation

The girl Marion (earlier cinema title was Prize of the Nations ) is a German melodrama from 1956 that premiered on October 26th.

action

The girl Marion von Hoff lives with her widowed mother Vera on the home estate in East Prussia . When the Trakehnen stud was evacuated in the war winter of 1944/1945, head keeper Kalweit came to the von Hoffs estate accompanied by his men and many valuable Trakehner mares. Kalweit persuades Vera von Hoff to leave the estate and to flee west. Before Kalweit dies due to the stress of the escape and the trek moves on, he entrusts the newborn Trakehner foal Prusso to the girl Marion, for whom Kalweit predicts a brilliant sporting future based on ancestry.

With a heavy heart, mother and daughter leave the home and flee, the most important memorabilia stowed in a covered wagon, with the foal towards the end of the Second World War . After many rejections, they are finally taken to Ms. Buddensiek's farm in Lower Saxony . When the vet Dr. Peter Meining there prevents Prusso, who has grown into a stately horse, from being stolen, Marion falls in love with him, but does not notice that Meining is not interested in her but in her mother.

One day Vera and the vet help give birth to a foal. The experience leads Meining to explain his intentions to Vera. She puts him off until later so as not to offend her daughter in love.

At the first show jumping tournament , Meining leads the animal. He sets a fast pace and has a hard crash. Vera takes care of him while Marion catches the horse. By chance she looks through a window and realizes the close relationship between Vera von Hoff and Dr. Peter Meining now look after. In desperation , she goes into the water , but is able to swim too well and is eventually driven back to shore, passed out.

The relationship between mother and daughter is very strained for a while afterwards. Prusso has now attracted so much attention that the stallion is to be accepted into the national team. Prusso is to be prepared for his future tasks in the Eberslohe training center. Marion reluctantly accepts the offer and introduces the horse to the trainer Günther Legler. In Marion's opinion, he deals too harshly with Prusso, so that there are different differences between the two. Marion cannot implement the multiple threats of departure because her mother, as the owner of the horse, has signed the training conditions. Finally Marion has to come to terms with the situation and the relationship with the self-confident Legler actually improves, who is convinced that Marion can "tame" Marion from the start.

At the equestrian ball the evening before Legler and Prusso took part in the Nations Cup , Marion dances with Günther Legler, when her mother and the vet Dr. Meining enter the hall. Marion is overjoyed to see her mother again and forgives her for keeping silent about her relationship with Dr. Meining.

With the Trakehner motto “Show your courage, Trakehner blood.” Marion finally sends her horse and her new swarm to the test of the Nations Cup, which Prusso and Legler win in an exciting time trial against Berndella and Lieutenant Ortega.

criticism

“Home touch with pseudo conflicts; the careful camera work and direction push the clichés back a little. "

- Lexicon of international film

Cinema.de praised the direction and camera, but criticized the "heavy romping around on the typical love movie clichés"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The girl Marion. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/das-maedchen-marion,1299353,ApplicationMovie.html