Life's Abundance (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Abundance of life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script |
A. Artur Kuhnert based on the novel of the same name by Ludwig Tieck |
| production |
Real-Film , Hamburg ( Gyula Trebitsch Walter Koppel ) |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Walter Fredersdorf |
| occupation | |
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Des Lebens Überfluss is a German feature film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner from 1950 that addresses the housing shortage in a major German city in the early post-war period. It is considered to be one of the last so-called debris films . The plot takes up motifs from the story of the same name by Ludwig Tieck from 1837.
action
Hamburg in the early post-war years. The city is still badly damaged by the war, intact apartments are in short supply. When old Kröpke dies in a half-ruined apartment building, the interest in her now vacant apartment is correspondingly great. Two poor students, Werner Rütting and Felix Engler, who work temporarily as pallbearers and immediately appear in front of the Kröpke apartment, also know that. A young woman, the blonde medical student Karin Jäger, who ingratiates herself with the landlady Ms. Holst with her alleged love of cats, is also hoping for good cards. Mrs. Holst promises her the apartment just as Mr. Holst promises the meager room to Werner, who is also looking for shelter, because he is impressed by the neat young studios in the pallbearer outfit and top hat on his head. The astonishment of both parties is all the greater, as both Karin and Werner want to move into the vacated apartment at the same time. Both have a valid rental agreement and have already paid the first rent including the deposit. Since neither of the two wants to give in, they have to come to terms, willy-nilly, and live together under one roof.
In order to keep the coexistence bearable and to preserve both privacy, Werner and Felix have stretched a light tarpaulin across the room. Soon, however, Erika and Werner not only begin to get used to each other, but even to like them. Since the two of them are very cold in the middle of late winter, Werner comes up with the grandiose idea of sawing off the wooden stairs that lead up to their two apartments and burning them piece by piece. On Karin's birthday morning, the two kiss for the first time. Since Gottlieb and Hugo, both neighbors one floor below, have eaten a fool, especially since the medical student had relieved Gottlieb from his earache, the two are now touchingly concerned about the well-being of the prospective doctor. The two weird birds even go on a thief tour with their men's choir and in broad daylight steal a movable wooden staircase from a company entrance at the port of Hamburg to give this Karin as a present and to assemble it immediately. Due to a misunderstanding, as a result of which Karin believes that "her" Werner has something with his fellow student "Strupps" and Werner assumes that Karin wanted to force him out of the apartment by court order, the couple split up briefly. And again Hugo and Gottlieb intervene and kidnap them and, with Felix's help, bring Karin and Werner back together in both apartments.
Production notes
The shooting of Des Lebens Abundance began on March 6, 1950 in Hamburg and ended there on April 8 of the same year. The real film was shot in the studio in Hamburg-Wandsbek, and the exterior shot was also shot in Hamburg. The premiere took place on May 18, 1950 in Berlin's marble house .
The costumes come from the hand of Trebitsch's wife Erna Sander . Her assisted Irms Pauli . The film structures were created by Mathias Matthies . Werner Pohl provided the sound .
The song The small island in the blue sea is played (sung by a male choir).
Awards
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg awarded the film the title artistically valuable. The film was also shown at the 5th Locarno International Film Festival.
Reviews
“Ever since Carol Reed's film The Third Man became a global success despite its ruined atmosphere, and since the new, realistic Italian film style has also attracted our attention, contemporary life has again become a popular topic in German films. (...) 'Des Lebens Abundance' ... takes place in a rubble house in Hamburg's Werderstrasse, in which, surprisingly, people still live today, even if not those who love one living there. In the crowd of people, effectively thrown together from the ground floor to the roof ... very soon too much direction becomes apparent, at the expense of reality and credibility. The film is astonishingly clear, whereby in its cold contemplation of death and burial it adopts the 'economic point of view', which no longer accepts human feelings but rather acquisition and opportunism. The film does not shy away from portraying all the oppressive harshness of the present, but since the optimistic idea for Artur A. Kuhnert's screenplay comes from a novella by Tieck, there is a conciliatory glimmer of romanticism about it, which is not entirely convincing. So the student milieu turns out to be quite inauthentic, not to mention the terrifying unspirituality that is supposed to characterize these young academics. Although the film is excellently photographed, effective in the editing and full of wit and full of humor, one retains an embarrassing and shameful feeling at the end ... However, that a new and hopeful attempt was made far from the template should remain undisputed. "
"Light, but in the character and milieu drawing coherent entertainment with satirical features."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abundance of life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Abundance of life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The abundance of life at filmportal.de