Dear Augustine (1960)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dear Augustine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Thiele |
| script |
Barbara Noack , Gregor von Rezzori (based on the novel of the same name by Horst Wolfram Geißler ) |
| production | Universum Film AG, Berlin |
| music | Bernd Kampka |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Erwin Kasch |
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Dear Augustin is a 1959 German feature film by Rolf Thiele with a number of young actors who later became well known.
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At the beginning of German Romanticism, at the beginning of the 19th century: Augustin Sumser is a true heartbreaker of his time. After attending the prince-bishop's seminar in Meersburg and a short training with a violin maker in Mittenwald, where he also studied the world of women for the first time, he went out into the world, as he says, to get to know life. The elderly Dr. Mesmer in Lindau on Lake Constance takes care of him and begins to take this likeable air guy and good-for-nothing into his heart. One day Augustin gets to know the idiosyncratic and pretty pretty English lady Ann, who is traveling, and takes a liking to the charming and always a little innocent womanizer. As a thank you for some lovely hours spent together, she gives Augustin a pretty music box. He is so fascinated by this special gift, its sound and its ingenious design that Sumser decides to become a designer of music boxes . Augustin shows great talent and soon he made a name for himself as a music box maker that extends far beyond Lindau.
Even greater than his talent as an instrument maker, however, is his desire for romantic adventures with the lovely ladies. Soon he turns to the young abbess Friederike von Bretzenheim , who lets his heart rise. But this time, too, the young happiness between the young aristocrat and the squadron doesn’t last too long, because an intrigue brings this liaison to an abrupt end. Dear Augustin, as he was soon to be called, now finds a job as the secretary of Baron Gravenreuth, who takes him with him on his travels through Europe. Now Augustin is finally getting to know the “big, wide world” he has always longed for, but back in his native Lindau, great love finally awaits him. Her name is Susanne, she genuinely loves the jack of all trades and will eventually become his wife. This marriage results in a child together, but one day Susanne dies in childbed. Deeply saddened, dear Augustin leaves his Lindau and meets the married princess again. It's old Dr. Mesmer, who finds him in an inconsolable state and gives him new courage to face life with his age wisdom and with advice and action.
Production notes
Dear Augustin was shot from October 1959 to November 21 of the same year at locations on Lake Constance ( Lindau , Bregenz ) as well as in Wasserburg am Inn , in Dinkelsbühl , in Schleissheim Palace and on the Romantic Road. The world premiere took place on January 21, 1960 in the Munich Chamber Light Theater. The Austrian premiere was on February 12, 1960.
For the buildings recorded Arno Richter and Felix Smetana , who also played a tiny role as a Napoleonic officer, responsible, costumes by Charlotte Flemming . Frank Roell was production manager, Hans Abich production manager.
This film is not a remake of the 1940s production Der liebe Augustin , which focuses on a bailiff and vagabond of the same name , a typical Viennese folk type of the 17th century.
Reviews
“The Great Brockhaus calls the Saxon Horst Wolfram Geißler, the author of“ Dear Augustin ”, a 'narrator of carefree Biedermeier life and love affection '. Rolf Thiele ('Das Mädchen Rosemarie', 'Labyrinth') wanted to imitate him with this film adaptation and presented himself naively: He offered fog veils, mermaid magic and the whole catalog of German reading book romanticism in order to convey three love experiences of the music box maker from Lake Constance garnish. However, the director is not as good at producing the simple heart sounds that he is after as the occasional irony sprinkled in. Unfortunately, she spares the main figure (Matthias Fuchs), a mild drip of considerable harmlessness, who looks like the incarnation of the German Michel. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: “At the same time, toying with the parody, one was concerned with the romance of the accusation by taking into account the one with tin soldier scenes suggesting contemporary history and nuances of dialogue, for the other, however, only pensive landscapes and interiors were brought into play found little support from the - with the exception of Forster - too sober contributors. "
“The sometimes comic, sometimes maudlin filmed story about the music box maker Augustin Sumser, who falls in love with three women one after the other, an English lady, an abbess and a bourgeois daughter, and finally marries the latter. Picturesque images and Biedermeier romanticism in a film that is overall too expansive. "
Web links
- Der liebe Augustin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dear Augustin at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film : Hans Abich
- ↑ Dear Augustin in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dear Augustin in the Lexicon of International Films
