The dreaming mouth (1953)

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Movie
Original title The dreaming mouth
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Josef von Báky
script Paul Czinner (original screenplay)
Carl Mayer (original screenplay)
Johanna Sibelius
production Fama movie
music Alois Melichar
camera Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
cut Alice Ludwig
occupation

The dreaming mouth is a film drama by the Hungarian director Josef von Báky from 1953. In the main role , Maria Schell embodies the wife of concert master Peter Merk, who is exposed to a hopeless situation and is considering killing herself.

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Elisabeth, a young, attractive woman, is married to the concertmaster Peter Merk. She is actually happy in her marriage, but still falls in love with the violinist Michael Lanson. She not only knows him from concerts, he was also a childhood friend of her husband Peter.

Her first thought was actually to divorce Peter and start a relationship with Michael. However, she rejects this thought when Peter becomes seriously ill. She decides not to leave him alone in this situation.

First of all, the case is settled for her, she takes care of her husband and tries to get Michael out of her mind. At first she succeeds in doing this. But when she meets Michael again, the love for him revives in her. Elisabeth is desperate: She doesn't know how to get out of this situation without, on the one hand, abandoning her husband and, on the other hand, being able to suppress her love for Michael. But there is a happy ending in which Elisabeth has a harmonious relationship with her husband Peter again.

Others

The film drama based on the eponymous film from 1932 of the Austro -Hungarian film director Paul Czinner and the Austrian screenwriter Carl Mayer , who in turn on the play Mélo the French playwright Henri Bernstein based.

Production notes

The dreaming mouth was produced in the Hamburg-Wandsbek studio. The outdoor shots were taken in Hamburg and the surrounding area. The film was first shown in German cinemas on August 29, 1953 in Stuttgart . Further publication dates (abroad) were August 12, 1953 in Denmark , August 13, 1954 in the GDR , September 3, 1954 in Finland , July 15, 1955 in Portugal , January 9, 1956 in Sweden , and September 12 , 1954 . February 1956 in France and October 31, 1958 in the USA ( New York ).

Awards

  • Predicate valuable from the FBL

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 378-379
  2. ↑ The dreaming mouth (1953) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 28, 2015 .