The Long Way (1946)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fate in chains |
| Original title | The long way |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eduard Hoesch |
| script | Eduard Hoesch |
| production | Eduard Hoesch |
| music | Frank Fox |
| camera |
Karl Kurzmayer , Anton Pucher |
| cut | Henny Brünsch |
| occupation | |
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The long way , German award title Schicksal in Ketten , is an Austrian homecoming drama by Eduard Hoesch from 1946.
action
A Soviet prisoner of war camp shortly before the end of the Second World War , 1200 kilometers from Vienna : Austrian soldiers have been trapped in the camp for several years. Everyone longs for Vienna and its wives. In particular, the 29-year-old Franz Manhardt misses his wife Anni. Both had only been married two years before the war broke out. One day a new prisoner comes into the camp. Sergeant Karl Strassl saw Vienna for the last time a year ago and brags about his stories of women in front of the others. He tells of one that he conquered over several days. One evening he told her that he would have to go to the front the next day. She initially resisted his advances, but then gave in and spent the next 14 days with him. He had promised her marriage when he left, but was not planning a marriage because his future wife had to have money. It turns out that the woman is Anni. Franz is beside himself and beats Karl, who falls unhappy and dies when he falls. Franz is sentenced to several weeks of forced labor and food deprivation, but is acquitted of manslaughter. When he returns to his comrades, the first thing he does is tear up the picture of his wife, whom he no longer wants to know about.
The Red Army conquers Vienna; shortly afterwards the German Reich surrenders. The prisoners of war are released and go back to Austria. Franz doesn't look forward to going home and doesn't want to see Anni again. He finds accommodation with his friend Rudi, who lived through imprisonment with him. Rudi believes that Karl did not tell the truth about his relationship with Anni and secretly seeks her out. She is pleased that Franz is alive. Anni denies a relationship with Karl, who had become intrusive one day, whereupon she put him out the door. Rudi makes it clear to Franz that his wife has always been loyal to him, and he promises to go to her the next day. An accident at work prevents this: in order to save a worker who had fallen from a bridge, Franz also jumps into the Danube and is seriously injured. Rudi and Anni rush to the hospital together, where Franz and Anni are reconciled.
production
The long way was the first Austrian feature film to be released in cinemas after the war. Filming began later than in Belief in Me , but it was finished sooner, so that the premiere could take place in Vienna on August 23, 1946. The first performance in the Federal Republic took place on January 12, 1950 in the Urania in Kassel.
The film was shot in the Rosenhügel studios , with the footage provided by the Soviet occupiers. The films were made by Julius von Borsody , the songs were written by Willy Engel-Berger , with the singing by Georg Oeggl , Franz Schuh and Hans Kainer . You can hear the songs Time heals every wound , I bring 'today' from Nussdorf a menagerie to the house and today ' I feel strange .
Reviews
"Despite the restrained portrayal, a lewd marriage drama without psychological depth or realistic time reference," said the lexicon of international films . Other critics called the film the “Austrian attempt to take notice of reality” and a “prototypical homecoming melodrama, obviously shot with little effort”.
Web links
- The long road in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The long way at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Walter Fritz: I experience the world in the cinema: 100 years of cinema and film in Austria . Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1997, p. 213.
- ↑ The long way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 3, 2016 .
- ^ Karin Moser: Occupied Pictures: Film, Culture and Propaganda in Austria, 1945–1955 . Filmarchiv Austria, 2005, p. 177.