The mosquito
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The mosquito |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Reisch |
| script | Walter Reisch |
| production |
Friedrich A. Mainz Emile J. Lustig |
| music | Peter Kreuder |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Ilse Voigt |
| occupation | |
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The mosquito is a German film drama from the spy milieu of 1954. Under the direction of the Austrian Hollywood Heimkehrers Walter Reisch play Hilde Krahl and Margot Hielscher the female leads. Messrs. Gustav Knuth and Bernhard Wicki can be seen in other leading roles on both sides .
action
Germany in the early post-war period. Once the arms dealer Karrari, a squat, menacing type of “butcher's dog with a soul”, who was involved in dark business dealings, saved the life of young Vilma Corinth during the Spanish Civil War , when she was to be executed as a spy, by simply letting her go. After 1945 she missed the connection with the German economic miracle and lived right under the roof of a poor dump called the “Hotel Kompass”. Today the woman, who desperately tries to preserve the remaining dignity with her elegant appearance, works as a spy under the cover name "Die Mücke" and accepts orders from an ominous "Excellency". Karrari meets Vilma in "Vier Jahreszeiten", a hotel with a slightly worn shine, and now wants to collect the old debt from her. He demands that the "mosquito" monitor his wife Jeanette, as he is often on business trips. Mistrust and jealousy shape his ongoing state of mind. But Jeanette quickly sees through the game of Vilma, who is officially brought into his house by Karrari as a partner, and so Vilma soon confesses to Jeanette her true intentions.
One day, a suspected secret service man who calls himself Inspector Voss appears in both women's lives. With a mixture of smeary charm and bloodhound mentality, he now pursues Vilma, charms her, ensnares her and finally puts her under pressure. Voss wants nothing less than Karrari, of all people, to put an end to the trade. Vilma is soon sitting between the chairs. She knows about Karrari's bloody business and has succumbed a little to Voss's advances. Finally she reveals her former lifesaver. Her debt of thanks to Karrari makes her warn him at the same time. “Run, I tell you, run and don't take anything with you,” she tells him, but the fat old man has grown tired. Feeling deceived and betrayed by everyone, Karrari only wants revenge and drags Vilma with him with the intention of killing her on the way. But even here he fails, and Karrari is arrested. In the end, Commissioner Voss wants to visit Vilma Corinth one last time in “her” house, but is no longer allowed to see her. In the end, everyone is disillusioned with the events and disgusted with the double games and life itself. Vilma no longer believes in love and from now on wants to devote herself entirely to her work, the only thing she thinks she understands. And so his “Excellency” gives the “Mücke” a new order.
Production notes
The shooting took place from the beginning of August 1954, and the film was filmed in the studios of Hamburg-Wandsbek, Berlin-Pichelsberg and Berlin-Tempelhof. The world premiere took place on October 18, 1954 in several German cities. The German television premiere was on October 2, 1964 on ARD .
The production line had Helmut Unger country . Rolf Zehetbauer designed the film structures, Albrecht Hennings assisted him . Ilse Dubois designed the costumes. Heinz Pehlke took over the camera work under the director of photography, Kurt Hasse .
Wolfgang Sauer sings it .
In May 1955, Die Mücke was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 8th Cannes International Film Festival .
Reviews
In Der Spiegel you can read: “As a scriptwriter and director, the Hollywood returnees and" Ninotschka "author Walter Reisch allowed some human, numerous surprises and even some logic. Only an overdose of ethical talk disturbs this work of the new German espionage boom. "
The lexicon of the international film says: "Although largely remaining on the surface and not psychologically convincing, the film with prominent cast still impresses with its good presentation."
Peter Kreuder's film composition says “Kreuder's melancholic waltz" Es war nur ein Liebelei "sets the musical counterpoint in a gripping melodrama that tells of German sensitivities in the 1950s: hatred, fear, sentimentality and hypocrisy.”
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Mücke in Der Spiegel 45/1954
- ↑ The mosquito. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Reception in: Filmmuseum Potsdam
Web links
- The mosquito in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mosquito at filmportal.de