The captured heart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The captured heart |
| Original title | The Captive Heart |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Basil Dearden |
| script |
Angus MacPhail Guy Morgan |
| production | Michael Balcon |
| music | Alan Rawsthorne |
| camera |
Douglas Slocombe Jack Parker |
| cut | Charles Hasse |
| occupation | |
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The Captive Heart (Original title: The Captive Heart ) is a British war film by Basil Dearden from 1946. The script is based on a story by Patrick Kirwan. The premiere in Germany took place in 1947 (alternative title: Stille Helden ).
action
After the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II, many Allied soldiers were taken prisoner by Germany. Among them is Karel Hasek, a Czech officer who escaped from a concentration camp and who has now assumed the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell, as a cover.
Hasek's comrades expose his fraud, but the commanders among them order that Hasek be covered. In order to dispel possible suspicions among the Germans, Hasek writes letters to Mitchell's wife Celia. Before the war, the marriage was cold, but the letters rekindle Celia's love for her husband.
A Gestapo officer comes to the prison camp. He thinks he knows Hasek. However, the letters can prevent the officer from immediately exposing Hasek. In addition, the English officers manage to put Hasek's name on a list of prisoners to be released.
Hasek is released and shipped to England. He visits Celia and wants to inform her that her husband has really fallen and that he has assumed his identity to save his life. She interrupts him and confesses that she has fallen in love with him and that she wants to be with him.
Reviews
"Actually excellent melodrama with restrained humor."
"The way director Basil Dearden recreate the fear, boredom and frustration of camp life is just brilliant."
background
Some scenes of the film were shot in the former prisoner of war camp Marlag near Westertimke in Lower Saxony . Some of the actors and most of the extras were soldiers in World War II, many of them were also taken prisoner by Germany.
Gordon Jackson is known to German television viewers as Butler Hudson in the series Das Haus am Eaton Place and as CI-5 boss George Cowley in the series Die Profis . Rachel Kempson is starring here for the second time in a movie (again with Michael Redgrave), this time playing the lead role for the first time. It was also the second movie appearance for Jack Warner and Derek Bond.
The roles of the Germans were cast with German or German-born actors. Among them were Karel Štěpánek , Friedrich Richter and Frederick Schiller.
For co-writer Guy Morgan it was the first work on a script, for Alan Rawsthorne the second work on a movie as a composer.
Web links
- The Captive Heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Criticism in the Variety (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Captive Heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique on cinema.de