The woman on the way

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Movie
Original title The woman on the way
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1948
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Eduard von Borsody
script Walter Firner
Irma Firner
Eduard von Borsody
production Willi Forst
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Walter Riml
cut Arnfried Heyne
occupation

Die Frau am Weg is an Austrian film drama from 1948 by Eduard von Borsody (direction) and Willi Forst (production) with Brigitte Horney in the title role. The three-person play was also Horney's first post-war production and was based on the play of the same name by Fritz Hochwälder and the novel The Refugee by Georg Kaiser .

action

Somewhere in the Alps at the time of the National Socialist tyranny in “Greater Germany”. While prisoners are being transported to a Nazi concentration camp, one of the prisoners, a refugee who remains anonymous, manages to escape. He finds a hiding place with Christine Rupp, the wife of a dutiful customs officer on the border with Switzerland. Christine, who has been trapped in a loveless marriage for ten years, is willing to take care of the man who must fear for his life.

Over time, the eponymous “Woman on the Path” falls in love with the refugee, and Christine decides to leave her now unloved husband and flee to Switzerland with the stranger in order to start a future together there. Rupp notices his wife's intention only late and wants to stop her. While he tries to prevent the couple from escaping to Switzerland, his own people mistake him for a refugee and shoot him while Christine escapes to freedom with her lover.

Production notes

The Woman on the Path was created in Thiersee in mid-1948 (makeshift studio and exterior shots) and was premiered in Vienna on October 12 of the same year. In Germany, the film opened in Baden-Baden on December 30, 1948; the Berlin premiere was on September 14, 1949.

JA Vesely took over the production management. Julius von Borsody designed the film structures, Helga Tramberger the costumes.

Reviews

“Two introductory text panels:“ The story takes place in a village high up in the mountains of Austria and near the border, the passage of which was the last hope for many for seven years. ”“ The characters are fictitious. Nevertheless, they are well known to us who live in this country. You who live outside do not know them. But - couldn't this story also take place in your country if it were deprived of its freedom, left alone in the world? «As with ARLBERG-EXPRESS, Eduard von Borsody also proves to be paranoia cinema with this Heimat noir time film -Caller. "

The lexicon of international films judged: "Exaggeratedly constructed problematic film in an unconvincing direction."

Individual evidence

  1. Often mistakenly film as the woman on the way out
  2. ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at
  3. The woman on the way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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