The trip to Marrakech
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The trip to Marrakech |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Eichberg |
| script | Benno Vigny |
| production |
Wilhelm Sperber for Merkur-Film, Munich |
| music | Theo Mackeben |
| camera |
Franz Koch Josef Illig |
| cut | Anneliese Schönnenbeck |
| occupation | |
and Ulrich Beiger , Alwin Lippisch , Paul Schwed , Friedrich Sauer , Eva L'Arronge , Horst-Werner Loos , Alfred Günzel and the dancers Annaliese Stammer , Tamara Nemirow, Yvonne von Kusserow and Vera Launay. | |
The Journey to Marrakech is a German melodrama from 1949 by Richard Eichberg .
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Armande Colbert, a spoiled and bored woman of high society in Paris and the wife of a famous surgeon, spends her time on numerous love adventures. The most ardent admirer is the speculator Orliac, but he doesn't really get a chance. Armande's current lover is the painter Jacques, who is in love with her best friend Liliane. During his stay in Casablanca , Morocco , there was a heated argument between the two rivals over his favor. Jacques overlooks this argument more or less by chance, whereupon he jumps into his car and a little later causes a serious accident in which he dies.
Armande Colbert soon takes consolation with another man, Capitaine Blanchard. One day, Armande received anonymous letters in which her death was announced within the next twelve months. Armande typed Orliac as the "poisonous pen" because she let it down too often. In agony, Armande confesses everything to her husband and ruefully vows for the future to get better. Professor Colbert forgives her and buys a palace for himself and his wife in Marrakech . After all the turbulent events of the past and the marriage-destroying relationships between Armande and his wife, he finally wants to relax there. But the night before departure, the curse announced in the letters comes true: Liliane, betrayed by Armande, shoots her in revenge for the loss of her beloved Jacques.
Production notes
The film is based on a French three-act act by Benno Vigny : Le voyage à Marrakech , "a sophisticated cocktail drama with a dash of moralizing social criticism and a number of pinches of lesbian caprices between the women Armande-Rosine."
The trip to Marrakech was Eichberg's last film director. In January 1949 he returned to Germany from the USA, where he had lived in exile for around ten years, and settled in Munich. In the middle of the same year he traveled with a crew to Morocco to produce the outdoor shots for this film in Casablanca and its surroundings. The studio recordings were taken in Geiselgasteig and were made between August 29 and October 15, 1949. The world premiere of Die Reise nach Marrakesch took place on December 21, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main and in Munich .
The total costs amounted to around 1.5 million DM.
Eichberg's last work before The Journey to Marrakech was the two-part film The Tiger of Esnapur and The Indian Tomb , shot twelve years earlier in India . The overwhelming public success of this film material in the cinema year 1938 and the successful re-performance in the western zones gave Eichberg the idea of resuming his directorial career with a film that was once again set in exotic locations. The result was a complete fiasco, as Curt Riess writes in his memoir 'That's only once'.
"The content? The dog is buried here. Eichberg had had old Kintopp written for him. He wanted to use an old, often tried and tested recipe again. Once too often. [...] People laugh at the tragic points when they haven't already fallen asleep. [...] Old Richard Eichberg sits behind the stage and cries. The scandal - the biggest post-war film scandal to date - is, as it turns out, controlled. […] By the way, the film makes its money. He's just exotic. It shows foreign countries, foreign customs - that's what people want to see, especially in the small towns and in the countryside, even if they do not understand the plot, cannot understand it. But this film also claims its victims. Luise Ullrich, who tries in vain to breathe life into the impossible figure of Armande, is boycotted by German film for years. [...] And Richard Eichberg? He dies of his first real film diarrhea. [...] He no longer enjoys filming ... "
The film ran in Austria under the title Love Adventure in Casablanca .
The film structures come from Willi A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann .
Reviews
The Illustrierte Film-Bühne found that Die Reise nach Marrakesch “seems a bit like lobbying for the travel industry that is establishing itself”.
The lexicon of the international film gave a short verdict: "Trivial love and adventure pokers."
The Frankfurter Rundschau and the Süddeutsche Zeitung also had negative reviews of the film at the end of 1949; the critic of the latter sheet, Alfred Dahlmann, found the trip to Marrakech to be the worst film he had ever seen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The trip to Marrakech in spiegel.de
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 74
- ↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 150.
- ↑ CineGraph: Richard Eichberg , Delivery 4, July 1985
- ↑ Curt Riess: There's only one. The book of German film after 1945, Hamburg 1958. P. 247 f.
- ↑ IFB, Issue No. 495
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 6, S. 3092. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ The trip to Marrakech in beim-im-kino.stoer.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- The trip to Marrakech in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The trip to Marrakech at filmportal.de