The falling star

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Movie
Original title The falling star
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1950
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Harald Braun
script Harald Braun
Herbert Witt
production ndF , Munich
( Jacob Geis )
music Werner Eisbrenner
camera Richard fear
cut Claus from Boro
occupation

and Ilse Fitz , Harriet Geßner , Elisabeth Goebel , Waltraud Salzmann , Paul Schwed

The Falling Star is a German movie drama from 1950 by Harald Braun with Werner Krauss , Dieter Borsche and the screen debutante Maria Wimmer in the leading roles.

Plays the key role in the film: "The falling star" Halley's Comet

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The falling star is Halley's Comet , which in 1910 became a traumatic event for the little girl Elisabeth Hollreiser . She firmly believes that there must be a causal connection between the natural event and the breakdown of her family and all of her subsequent misfortune. Shortly after the Second World War, she worked as a social worker in a camp for displaced persons from the eastern regions. Every day, the adult Elisabeth Hollreiser is confronted there with the social and human misery of the homeless and homeless, which leaves her pretty much untouched. Elisabeth does not show any sympathy even for the emotional distress of the young refugee woman Alma. Their depression builds over time, as does their bitterness over the life they screwed up in their eyes.

One day two strange male figures arrive who turn their lives upside down from now on. Their names are Lucius and Lemura and they are supposedly a train driver and a canteen leaseholder. In truth, however, they embody good and bad, the angel and the devil, and now confront Elisabeth with herself. Both complement each other like Yin and Yang and achieve that Elisabeth finally confronts her traumatic childhood fears. Lucifer Lemura symbolizes the past, the terrible memory that Elisabeth has been holding in a stranglehold for four decades, and with the appearance of Halley's Comet created an everlasting threat that only stands for a pent-up fear of life. Lucius, on the other hand, finally knows how to break open these fears, and the Bible and the firm Christian belief in one God help him. At least Lucius succeeds in releasing Elisabeth Hollreiser from her inner hardening: At the crucial moment, the social worker saves Alma from a planned suicide. Whether Elisabeth's metamorphosis away from depression and towards life will actually succeed is left open in the film, but there is no simple solution in sight.

Production notes and awards

The falling star was created between August 7 and October 2, 1950 for almost 900,000 Deutschmarks in the Allach, Ludwigsfeld and Dachau reception camps as well as in the film studios of Munich-Geiselgasteig and was shown on December 19, 1950 in the World Games cinema by Hanover premiered. The (West) Berlin premiere took place on April 27, 1951.

Producer Jacob Geis also took over the production management. Hans Sohnle and Fritz Lück were responsible for the film construction.

The falling star was the first film to receive a federal guarantee .

Bernhard Wicki played his first regular film role here.

The film is Harald Braun's second production after Nachtwache , which dealt in depth with existential questions of faith, and as with Nachtwache , Braun also left Dieter Borsche a leading role in this religious subject.

The film received the following ratings:

  • Artistically high standing (state of North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Artistically valuable (state of Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • The falling star participated in the IV Cannes International Film Festival in April 1951 .

Reviews

Der Spiegel stated in its December 20, 1950 issue:

“Braun leaves the exit open. The game between good and bad is canceled in the event of a draw. The threat continues. The Christian Harald Braun does not see God as benevolent and forgiving, but rather, in an almost Old Testament way, 'remote, terrible and inhuman'. Maria Wimmer acted so intensely in the role of the treacherous-hysterical Rittmeister wife Hollreiser with her first film chance that the first viewers of the film felt the impulse: 'I want to beat her up.' "

The lexicon of international films states:

“A childhood trauma (the experience of the night of the comet in 1910) freezes a social worker who runs a homeless camp after the Second World War in fear of life and selfish harshness. However, shocks and the Christian message convert them to humanity and helpfulness. An unconventional, somewhat weird film with idiosyncratic, symbolic dream sequences. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the winter of 1939-40, he worked in the extras of The postmaster with
  2. ↑ The falling star: a hundred moan "uff". In: Der Spiegel 51/1950. December 20, 1950, pp. 38-39 , accessed September 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The falling star. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 4, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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