The commanding reputation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The commanding reputation |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav Ucicky |
| script | Erich Ebermayer |
| production | Vienna film |
| music | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Henny Brünsch |
| occupation | |
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The commanding call is a German film melodrama by Gustav Ucicky with Rudolf Forster and Maria Holst in the lead roles in autumn / winter 1943/44 .
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Dr. Christine Exner is a capable young doctor. Once in Graz, for private reasons, she had to refuse the offer of her superior doctor, Hofrat Prof. Wichmann, to follow him to Vienna as his assistant doctor. But now that things have obviously changed, she comes up to the councilor and asks him whether the offer from the past is still valid. Wichmann says yes, and Christine becomes his right hand. Soon they get closer in private too, and one day the professor asks Christine whether she would like to become his wife. This is how Miss Dr. Exner Frau Professor Wichmann. During both honeymoons, the professor is called back to the Vienna Clinic because of an urgent case. As a result of an injury, the actor Ferdinand Hofer developed a cyst in his brain that, as it grows very quickly, has to be surgically removed as soon as possible. The operation is considered difficult and dangerous at the same time.
This situation is not without piquancy, because Hofer was once Christine's lover in Graz. Christine and the young mime meet shortly before the operation at a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic, and the young professor's wife recalls her former rendezvous in Graz in her mind's eye. As a young doctor, she had met him during a patient visit, and the two young people quickly became lovers. Since Ferdinand Hofer is considered a charmer and bon vivant, and the hearts of women fly to the attractive young actor, Christine soon began to doubt whether her lover could really be loyal. So she soon withdrew and followed the call of Prof. Wichmann, her current husband. Ferdinand, in turn, hesitated to accept an obligation to the theater in Berlin because he did not want to leave Christine, who was bound in Graz, behind. But since she advised him to go to the German capital, the two separated. Nevertheless, Christine still loves Ferdinand today.
Ferdinand's reunion with his ex shook his soul a lot, which is rather suboptimal for the upcoming operation. Christine is also emotionally torn, but wants to remain loyal to her husband. After Christine's husband, Professor Wichmann, overheard the conversation between the two by chance, he is very unsure whether he should still operate on Ferdinand and postpones it indefinitely. But the commanding reputation of the sense of duty of a doctor who is called to heal the sick ultimately triumphs over personal sensitivities, not least because his wife, who had recently kissed her ex-lover, shows her unbreakable loyalty and love has insured. And this is how Professor Wichmann operates the actor, especially since the operation cannot be postponed any longer. The procedure was a complete success and Ferdinand Hofer was considered cured. The professor knows that his wife was just playing for him so as not to hurt him, and that her affection is still for the much younger stage artist. And so Wichmann releases his Christine and from now on wants to devote himself entirely to his profession. When Ferdinand Hofer wakes up in bed after the operation, the first thing he sees is Christine's face.
Production notes
The commanding call arose between mid-November 1943 and mid-February 1944 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios and was premiered on July 11, 1944 in Vienna's Scala cinema . The Berlin premiere took place three days later.
Fritz Podehl took over the production management. Gustav Abel designed the film structures, the costumes come from Hilde Reihs-Gromes. Otto Untersalmberger and Alfred Norkus took care of the sound. As a simple cameraman, Hannes Staudinger assisted chief cameraman Günther Anders .
The film received the state rating of "artistically particularly valuable".
The film cost 1.388 million Reichsmarks and was therefore slightly above average. However, by February 1945 , the commanding reputation brought in almost 2.7 million RM and was therefore a great box-office success.
criticism
"Sentimental doctor and love drama with insufficient psychological motivation."
On film.at one could read: “In a long final monologue, Rudolf Forster, as an aging doctor, invokes the need to put the common good before the private. With this outcome, Wien-Film was "back on track" after it had turned Goebbels against itself with Ucicky's previous films. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films 13th year 1944/45. P. 43 f. (017.44), Berlin 2002
- ^ The imperative call in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on December 24, 2018
- ↑ The imperious reputation on film.at
Web links
- The imperious reputation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The commanding reputation at filmportal.de