The governor (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The governor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Viktor Tourjansky |
| script |
Emil Burri , Peter Francke |
| production | Hans Tost |
| music | Wolfgang Zeller |
| camera | Konstantin Irmen-Tschet |
| cut | Walter Fredersdorf |
| occupation | |
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Der Gouverneur (alternative title: Die Fahne ) is a German film drama in black and white by Viktor Tourjansky from 1939. The screenplay was written by Emil Burri and Peter Francke . It is based on the play Die Fahne by Otto Emmerich Groh . Willy Birgel , Brigitte Horney , Hannelore Schroth and Rolf Weih can be seen in the leading roles . In Germany, the film was first shown in Berlin on April 23, 1939.
action
In an imaginary Scandinavian country , an ambitious radical buys an indebted country estate in order to be able to become a member of parliament as a resident, which he finally succeeds in doing. Rescue in the party turmoil is the military dictatorship under the determined governor General Werkonen. The new deputies will ensure that this one attack perpetrated. The general is only slightly injured when it is carried out. The hired assassin now feels abandoned by his client and takes revenge with his murder.
The suspicion of murder falls on the young guard officer Lieutenant Robert Runeberg, the son of the former landowner, who probably had a motive for alleged counterfeiting of his father. And that very officer cannot come out with his alibi; because the said alibi is a simultaneous conversation with his childhood friend Maria, the current wife of the military governor, and he does not want to compromise this. While everyone involved is still struggling with questions of conscience, the guard officer is reaching for the pistol and the governor is about to resign, the real murderer turns up in time. This saved all honor and especially the honor of the body regiment.
Production notes
The shooting (atelier in the UFA-Stadt Babelsberg and in the UFA-Atelier in Berlin-Tempelhof ) for Der Gouverneur began on January 18, 1939 and was completed at the end of the following month. The outdoor shots were taken in March 1939 (in East Prussia and in the Giant Mountains ). The cost was around 715,000 Reichsmarks; This made The Governor a comparatively cheap film to produce. The film structures were designed by Max Mellin . Hans Tost was in charge of both production and production. Gustav Bellers provided the sound. Erich von Gomlicki was a military advisor.
Reviews
The evangelical film observer does not believe in the film : “After defusing the side tendency that was clearly anti-democratic at the time, there remained a sentimental gossip that pathetically demonstrates an outdated code of honor. Totally superfluous. ”The lexicon of international film does not come to a better assessment either:“ Agents, officers, beautiful women, love and honor in an adventurous colportage film with Nazi tendencies. ”Boguslaw Drewniak already called the literary model a" strong-minded material " and found The Governor was "a politically 'strong' film".
See also
Web links
- The governor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The governor at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 221/1967, pp. 301–302.
- ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 10th year 1939. P. 76 (036.39), Berlin 1999
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1388.
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 551
- ↑ ibid., P. 552