The Nurse King
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Nurse King |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK at that time youth ban, later from 16 nf |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Steinhoff |
| script |
Ernst Hasselbach Axel Eggebrecht Erich Kröhnke |
| production | KJ Fritzsche |
| music | Franz Grothe |
| camera |
Karl Puth Rudolf Bredschneider H. W. Gerlach |
| cut | Alice Ludwig |
| occupation | |
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The Nurse King (subtitle: Das Tal des Lebens , reference title: Das Tal der Liebe ) is a German comedy film from 1935 directed by Hans Steinhoff . The main roles are occupied by Käthe Gold and Richard Romanowsky . Erika von Thellmann , Marieluise Claudius , Fita Benkhoff and Gustav Knuth play key roles .
The screenplay is based on Max Dreyer's historical Schwank Das Tal des Lebens , published in 1902.
action
Neubronn is a quiet place in the valley of life . Something special distinguishes Neubronn: The wet nurses for the entire country come from there. After the Margrave introduced a marriage tax that burdens the citizens - in addition to many other taxes anyway - the residents of Neubronn decide not to marry anymore, but to live together unmarried, but like married couples. Every year the local wet nurses elect one of the men they trust as wet nurse king. This year the blacksmith Hans Stork wins the race, which his wife Lisbeth is not at all happy about. When the margravine found out that they were living together in a wild marriage in Neubronn, it aroused her interest. However, this interest means that the margrave's sister, whose favorite is the chastity commissioner, learns of the conditions in Neubronn, which leads to the wet-nurse's arrest. The wet nurses don't just accept this arrest and rehearse the uprising. The margrave sees no other option than to promise that Hans Stork will be released in the foreseeable future.
In the meantime, Hans has caught the attention of the margravine, who likes the sturdy man who works as a guard in the margravial residence . She chooses him as her partner in a play. The Margrave who desperately wants an heir, without it has been worked out, meanwhile rises naked in the miraculous spring, which is located in Neubronn, and is said to the man force strengthens. Hans' wife Lisbeth has observed this and demands that the Duodec prince grant her husband an immediate pardon in return for the return of his clothes, which she has taken, and she achieves her goal.
After several months have moved into the country, the father of the country is born an heir whose birth he announces his subjects to brag, not knowing that the Ammenkönig him put horns has.
Production notes and background
The shooting in the studio took place in August 1935, the outdoor shots in Schwetzingen and Saalfeld were made in October 1935. The production company was Centropia-Film GmbH (Berlin). Franz Schroedter was responsible for the overall equipment , Paul Scheurich , Manon Hahn and Werner Boehm were responsible for the costumes . The lyrics are from Richard Billinger . In the film you can hear the song You are mine and I am yours… .
The film is 2,818 m long, which corresponds to 103 minutes. On December 5, 1935, The Nurse King was subjected to an examination under the designation B.40848 and was subject to a "youth ban". The film premiered in Berlin on December 5, 1935. The wet nurse was also given a special "honor": He was accepted into Adolf Hitler's private film archive in the Berghof .
Gustav Knuth played his first role on the screen in this film. In a review of the Zeughauskinos it was said that in the spring of 1935 Hans Steinhoff, “in order to consolidate the position he had achieved as a star director through the success of The Old and Young King ”, “felt compelled to follow up with a project that was as equivalent to the Jannings film as possible ". His suggestions to shoot biographies about Schiller, Friedemann Bach or Andreas Hofer were rejected, whereupon he resorted to Dreyer's hearty comedy The Valley of Life about the wet nurse. With its strongly sexual tendencies, the play was temporarily banned by the censors, but in 1902 it became a "scandalous success" because it was offended, which caused a sensation. It was launched that the idea of a film adaptation was influenced by Joseph Goebbels , who is said to have turned against fanatical moralists in an article entitled Morals or Moralism , “who use the 'national revolution' of the NSDAP to enforce their private moral concepts would ”. Funds from the party flowed to the Nurse King .
criticism
The lexicon of international films spoke of a “rough prewar fun game” and added: “The theme and style clearly show the population-political tendencies of the Nazi state.” Karlheinz Wendtland, however, had the opposite opinion and wrote: “It's a pleasure to be heavy fun without squeamish. How easily that could have gone wrong. But it didn't work! "
See also
Web links
- The Ammenkönig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Nurse King at filmportal.de
- The Nurse King Illustrated Film-Courier No. 2399
Individual evidence
- ↑ The valley of life by Max Dreyer
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 632.
- ↑ Klaus Kaiser: That will not come back: Film stars of past years , pp. 114, 115
- ↑ Zeughauskino. Deutsches Historisches Museum, program of February 27, 2014. hc: Review of the film Der Ammenkönig .
- ↑ The Nurse King at askhelmut.com. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
- ↑ The Nurse King. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1935 and 1936, Medium Film Verlag Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, first and second edition 1987, third completely revised and expanded edition 1989, p. 105, film 99/1935. ISBN 3-926945-08-7
