The Reputation (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The call |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German and English |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 100 minutes |
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| Director | Josef von Báky |
| script | Fritz Kortner |
| production | Objectiv-Film GmbH, Munich ( Richard König ) |
| music | Georg Haentzschel |
| camera | Werner Krien |
| cut | Wolfgang Becker |
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Der Ruf (international title: The Last Illusion ) is a tragic fictional film by the Hungarian director Josef von Báky , based on a script by the Austrian director and actor Fritz Kortner . The film, which premiered on April 19, 1949 in the Marble House in Berlin , took part in the 1949 Cannes International Film Festival .
action
"The Call" belongs to the genre of debris films . It is about a Jewish professor who returned to Germany a few years after the end of World War II after having emigrated to the USA for 15 years. Although he kept his previous job, like many other returnees, he made the experience that neither his former work colleagues nor his family had given up the internalized reactionary and National Socialist views and therefore experienced harassment and rejection. He dies in the grueling fight against these attitudes.
background
The film was made in the Munich-Geiselgasteig studio with external shots from Munich and the surrounding area.
The main role of Professor Mauthner is played by Fritz Kortner himself. The plot of the film bears traits of his life: Kortner, actually Fritz Nathan Kohn, was also a Jew, emigrated from the Third Reich to the USA and returned to Germany at the end of 1947. Other roles include Johanna Hofer , Rosemary Murphy , Charles Regnier , Lina Carstens , William Sinningen , Michael Murphy, Ernst Schröder , Paul Hoffmann , Arno Assmann , Alwin Edwards , Harald Mannl , Friedrich Domin , Hans Fitze , Fritz Benscher , Hans Clarin , Annemarie Holtz , Walter Janssen , Georg Lehn , Wolfried Lier , Angelika Schrobsdorff can be seen. Werner Krien was in charge of the camera, Georg Haentzschel wrote the film music , and Fritz Maurischat was the set designer . Wolfgang Becker edited the film and assisted with the direction. The production company was the Objectiv-Film GmbH founded by Josef von Báky in Munich- Geiselgasteig , production manager Richard König .
A special feature of the film is that the characters speak German or English, depending on the situation, which is important for the main character's exile in the USA and for the time of the occupation of Germany by u. a. the Americans is realistic.
criticism
The Protestant film observer praises the fact that the work has weight in terms of its humane subject, but criticizes that the film is only of very dubious artistic value.
literature
- Helmut G. Asper: Fritz Kortner's return and his film Der Ruf . In: Helmut G. Asper (Ed.): When we talk about yesterday, we talk about today and tomorrow . Sigma, Berlin 1991, pp. 287-300.
- Klaus Völker : "Education is more important than conviction": On Fritz Kortner's film Der Ruf . In: FilmExil 3, 1993, pp. 5-12.
- Ulrike Weckel: Breeding ground of anti-Semitism and male domain: The German post-war university in the diagnosis of the feature film The Call of 1949 . In: Henning Albrecht u. a. (Ed.): Political society history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Festival ceremony for Barbara Vogel . Hamburg 2006, pp. 119-132.
Web links
- The call in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The reputation at filmportal.de