The barrings
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The barrings |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Thiele |
| script |
Felix Lützkendorf Rolf Thiele |
| production |
Roxy Film GmbH, Munich ( Ludwig Waldleitner ) |
| music | Friedrich Meyer |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Alexandra Anatra |
| occupation | |
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The Barrings is a German drama from 1955 by Rolf Thiele based on the novel of the same name by William von Simpson (1937) with Dieter Borsche and Nadja Tiller as well as a number of well-known old stars in the leading roles.
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East Prussia at the turn of the century. Fried von Barring, the son of an East Prussian manor owner, falls in love with the extravagant Gerda von Eyff, whose family is in financial difficulties. Against his father's wishes, he marries the demanding and capricious woman. Marital happiness does not last too long, as the pleasure-addicted and fun-loving Gerda exaggerates her extravagance to such an extent that after the death of old Archibald von Barring the manor first gets into a severe financial crisis and then even has to be sold. Fried von Barring realizes too late that he and Gerda had married the wrong von Eyff and that her younger sister Gisa would have been a much better match for him.
One day there is almost a serious accident in which Gisa almost ran over the heap of galloping horses and trampled to death. At the last moment, Fried can save his sister-in-law from this horrible death. But he is hit badly himself and remains injured. After a long period of care, Fried has to come to terms with the fact that he will probably remain paralyzed for the rest of his life. Before his wife Gerda, who can no longer stand it in East Prussia, moves to Berlin, Fried dies. But Gerda only has one wish to become a lady of the great society in the capital of the Reich.
Production notes
The Barrings was created from July 20 to September 2, 1955 in the Göttingen studio, in Göttingen and the surrounding area and in Verden an der Aller and was premiered on October 27, 1955 in Hanover. The first German television broadcast took place on December 9, 1963 on ZDF .
Producer Ludwig "Luggi" Waldleiner also took over the production management. Walter Haag designed the film structures . Hannes Staudinger was a simple cameraman under Günther Anders' chief camera. Charlotte Flemming created the costumes. This film was one of his last appearances in front of the cinema camera for the Göttingen resident and theater director Heinz Hilpert.
The story was continued by Thiele in 1956 with " Friederike von Barring ".
Awards
The FBL awarded the film the title valuable .
Reviews
“William von Simpson's East Prussian family novel 'The Barrings', with an unhappy marriage and the deterioration of a property, did not offer a film plot, but instead an expensive setting for Dieter Borsche's return from French to German studios: he plays the correct one again, as before and restrained, yet passionate nobleman. It's surprising how the former beauty queen Nadja Tiller copes with her role of a greedy and tough woman. "
“[Nadja Tiller] is not only a distinctive appearance, she also impresses with a surprising ability to change, which shows her as a character player of high standing. The sympathetic and unsympathetic traits, the youthful frivolity at the beginning and then later the slow hardening, all of this grows into a seamless unit in a difficult study. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A novel about an unhappy marriage: without a common love story but with criticism of society and the times (the political one of the accusation has been eliminated). Serious actors, too economical drawing of the environment. "
“The decline of a noble family from East Elbe in the late 19th century as a result of the extravagance of a married-in young woman. The popular East Prussian family novel (1937) by William von Simpson as a handcrafted soul drama of conventional design, which was a great success with the public at the time it was written. "
Web links
- The barring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The barrings at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Barrings in Paimann's film lists ( Memento from October 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Barrings in the Lexicon of International Films
