The beautiful Fraulein Schragg

Movie
Original title	The beautiful Fraulein Schragg
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1937
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Hans Deppe
script	Fred Andreas Joseph Dalman
production	Peter Ostermayr
music	Herbert Windt
camera	Werner Bohne
cut	Paul May (as Paul Ostermayr)
occupation
Otto Fee : Friedrich II. (Prussia) Paul Bildt : Privy Councilor Schragg Hansi Knoteck : Anna-Maria, his daughter Eduard von Winterstein : District Administrator Schragg Elsa Wagner : Antonie, his wife Hilde Schneider : Charlotte von Drewitz Hellmuth Bergmann : Lt von Meerheimb Hans Adalbert Schlettow : Paul Wittekind Paul Klinger : Ludwig Krüll Jac Trevor : James MacKerry Werner Stock : Hannes Blume Carla Rust : Berta Wittekind Werner Pledath : Pastor Hondewerper Arthur Schröder : Count Arnsfeld Heinrich Schroth : Baron of Weddien Wilhelm Paul Krüger : three cushion, a farmer Lena Haustein : Trine, maid at the district administrator Franz Stein : scribe Lucie Euler : matchmaker and Alfred Haase , Charlie Albert Huber , Hellmuth Passarge

The beautiful Fräulein Schragg is a historical romance film from 1937 and the penultimate film from the series of Fridericus Rex films with Otto Fee . The film plot is based on the novel of the same name by Fred Andreas . In addition to Otto Fee, the main roles include Paul Bildt , Hansi Knoteck , Eduard von Winterstein and Elsa Wagner . Paul Klinger plays the man the title character falls in love with.

In contrast to the vast majority of the other films in this series, this is not primarily about soldiers and war, but about a love romance that dominates the film.

The premiere of the historical film took place on April 9, 1937 in Berlin.

action

A few years after the end of the Seven Years' War , East Prussia is to be repopulated and cultivated again in 1770 according to the will of Frederick the Great by means of released soldiers and pardoned convicts. Both groups enjoy little respect, especially among the landlords and farmers who are already living there.

That is why the court maid Anna-Maria Schragg, daughter of a privy councilor, was sent to Masuria on the highest cabinet orders to push ahead with the reconstruction work . There the pampered maid of honor found the husband and the vocation for life in the former theology student Ludwig Krüll, who had been brought to this area as a colonist by an adverse fate. Anna-Maria's struggle for this love, which is in the way of social prejudice, is successful, is also thanks to the help of the understanding king.

Production notes

It is a film from the production group of UFA Krüger-Ulrich, Tonlicht-Film GmbH, Peter Ostermayr (Berlin) on behalf of Universum-Film AG (UFA). Hanns H. Kuhnert and Hermann Asmus were responsible for the buildings . Paul Ostermayr was the assistant director, Peter Ostermayr was the artistic director . The film recordings were made in the area around Rheinsberg .

reception

publication

The premiere in Germany took place on April 9, 1937; in the USA the film was released on September 24, 1937 under the title Pretty Miss Schragg , in Slovenia / Yugoslavia on October 27, 1937 under the title Ples na dvoru . The film was also published in Austria and Spain, there under the title Por mandato imperial .

criticism

Karlheinz Wendtland wrote: "Since even the Allies took no offense at the benevolent king, who equated released soldiers with pardoned convicts (!), But also wanted as many country children as possible and wanted to colonize the country in the east, we also see no concerns."

The lexicon of international films spoke of a "wonderful, well-groomed UFA romance between the rococo costume of the royal court and rural primevalness".

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era
• List of films about Friedrich II. (Prussia)

literature

• Erwin Leiser : Germany, wake up !. Propaganda in Third Reich film. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1978, ISBN 3-499-10783-X .
• Axel Marquardt, Heinz Rathsack: Prussia in the film. A retrospective of the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-34005-4 .
• Eberhard Mertens (compilation and introduction): Film programs. Volume 5: The great Prussian films. I. Production 1921–1932. Olms Press, Hildesheim / New York 1981, ISBN 3-487-08229-2 .

Web links

• The beautiful Miss Schragg in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• The beautiful Miss Schragg at filmportal.de
• Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
• The beautiful Fräulein Schragg Fig.Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 1647 (cover picture: Hansi Knoteck)
• The beautiful Fräulein Schragg sS rarefilmsondmore.com (with ill. Ill. Film-Kurier No. 2601 and film images)
• The beautiful Fräulein Schragg excerpts from shooting the film
• The beautiful Miss Schragg full film sS nazi-germany-videos.weebly.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The beautiful Fraulein Schragg Fig. Title page of the novel
2. ^ Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1937 and 1938. 2nd, revised edition. Verlag Medium Film Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, ISBN 3-926945-05-2 , Film 36/1937, p. 35.
3. ↑ The beautiful Fraulein Schragg. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 27, 2018 .