The last will be the first
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The last will be the first |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Hansen |
| script | Jochen Huth |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Mark Lothar |
| camera | Franz Weihmayr |
| cut | Anna Höllering |
| occupation | |
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The last will be the first is a German crime film from 1957 based on the novel The First and the Last (original title: The First and the Last) by John Galsworthy .
action
Lorenz Darrandt was a prisoner of war for many years . The experiences made there have deeply disturbed him and he is struggling to gain a foothold in post-war Germany. He draws hope when he falls in love with pretty Wanda. However, Wanda is a prostitute and is under the influence of her pimp . Lorenz kills the pimp. Ludwig Darrandt, Lorenz's older brother and a successful lawyer , succeeds in blaming an innocent beggar for the murder . He is convicted and has to go to prison . Lorenz now has nothing more to fear. The remorse drives him and Wanda to suicide .
title
The title is a winged word that originally comes from the Bible ( Mt 19.30 EU ).
Reviews
- Lexicon of the international film : "Crime melodrama whose claim to deeper meaning is not fulfilled because of the trivial script and the conventional direction."
- "(...) This dramatic plot is wasted by conventional film with increasingly trivial ideas." (Rating: 1 star = weak) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 497
- "Dark and blatant at the same time, this German problematic film deprives itself of any significance due to its intellectual lack of clarity. The crime story alone is filled with its own tension. Reservations about uncritical portrayal of premarital relationships." - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, pp. [260] -261
Awards
The film was the German competition entry in 1957 at the Berlinale , but it did not get any awards.
literature
- John Galsworthy : The First and the Last (Original title: The First and the Last) . [Attached work: A Man from Devon ]. German by Leon Schalit . With an afterword by Joachim Krehayn . 8th, expanded edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1979 (Reclams Universal Library, Volume 705), 113 pp.
Web links
- The last will be first in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The last will be the first. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .