The Chinese miracle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Chinese miracle |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script |
Manfred Barthel Kurt Nachmann |
| production | Hans Pflüger for Cinema 77 (Berlin) |
| music | Sam Spence |
| camera |
Götz Neumann Rainer Teumer |
| cut | Annemarie Rokoss |
| occupation | |
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The Chinese Wonder is a German feature film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner from 1976 with Christian Kohlund , Senta Berger and Heinz Rühmann in the leading roles.
action
The young surgeon Dr. Kristian Keller is a doctor inspired by idealism. He has long been disgusted by the obsession and greed of numerous colleagues who are no longer driven by the will to help sick people. A defining factor in this type of doctor he despises is Keller's boss, Professor Gaspardi, who is as vain as he is complacent and authoritarian. Not only once does a confrontation arise between the two, in which the class-conscious Gaspardi Keller makes it clear who is a cook and who is a waiter in the clinic. To make matters worse, Kristian Keller has been having an affair with Gaspardi's still very young wife Detta for some time. She too is more and more disgusted by her husband's behavior and vanities. She has long considered her deeply emptied marriage with the respected chief physician to have failed. One day, Keller decides to give up the medical profession in Germany, which he feels is like a dead end. He wants to fly to Hong Kong to start over there as a doctor. As agreed, Detta is to come a little later.
During the flight, the young German met the old Russian Poliakoff, who was Dr. Keller introduces him to the completely new but highly interesting world of acupuncture . When an emergency arises high up in the air, it is the wise Poliakoff who, with his expertise, helps Keller decisively in an emergency operation. He places the acupuncture needles on the patient in such a way that she is completely numb and does not feel any pain at birth by caesarean section . Fascinated by Poliakoff's skills, Kristian Keller in Hong Kong wants to learn everything from the old Russian about his secret knowledge of acupuncture. But a little later Poliakoff dies in an explosion. So Keller finally came into possession of his box with the healing needles. In the meantime, Detta Gaspardi was involved in an accident in Germany and has suffered from severe migraines ever since. Therefore, she is unable to follow Keller to Hong Kong. After a few years of absence, Keller returns to Germany. After initial skepticism among his professional colleagues, he was able to achieve initial successes with his acupuncture technique and even cure Detta of her severe migraines. The Chinese art of healing has thus also established itself in Europe.
production
The Chinese miracle was filmed in Germany and Hong Kong in the second half of 1975 and premiered in several German cities on January 21, 1977. Hans von der Heydt was in charge of production, and Robert Stratil designed the film structures . It was Stratil's last cinematic activity. The almost four decades of collaboration between Rühmann and Liebeneiner, which began in 1937 with The Model Husband , ended with The Chinese Wonder . Rühmann's role here, however, has little more than guest character; he can only be seen about a third of the film. It should be his third last appearance in a cinema.
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The Chinese miracle , largely resembling a full-length advertising film for Far Eastern healing methods, was a typical depreciation film of those years (1975 to 1978) promoted by state legislation . This type of film, mostly produced by the companies Cinema 77 and Geria, which specialize in this type of financing, were financed through investments by investors with whom they sought to save taxes. The majority of these films - including The Secret Bearer , Mimosas Want To Bloom , Lady Dracula and Women's Ward - were accordingly on the one hand high-ranking and expensive (albeit rarely of high quality) produced, but on the other hand they regularly turned out to be veritable box office flops. Due to the sometimes very poor quality of these films despite well-known actors (from Heinz Rühmann to Horst Buchholz and Stephen Boyd to Theo Lingen and Senta Berger) and experienced directors (such as Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Rolf Thiele ), there were regularly great difficulties in finding one for these productions Find rental. While The Secret Carrier and Also Mimosas Want to Bloom came to the cinemas relatively quickly after the end of filming, the premiere dates of other depreciation productions were sometimes considerably delayed: The Chinese Wonder and Women's Station (both filmed in autumn 1975) were only premiered in 1977, and Lady Dracula (also made in autumn 1975) was not even released until 1978. Chinese wonder producer Hans Pflüger was particularly active in the production of depreciation films. Most of these productions had one thing in common: they were films "that were mostly shown in empty halls."
Reviews
"Unrealistic colportage, colorful, stupid and talkative: a depreciation production."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiegel article from January 1976 New doctor image with CSU help
- ↑ Spiegel article from 1978 Nothing works anymore
- ↑ 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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 28, (biography Wolfgang Liebeneiner).
- ↑ The Chinese miracle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- The Chinese miracle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Chinese miracle at filmportal.de