The Red One (film)

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Movie
Original title The Red
Country of production Germany , Italy
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Helmut Käutner
script Alfred Andersch
Helmut Käutner
production Real-Film , Hamburg
( Walter Koppel )
Magic Film Spa, Rome
Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Rome
( Carlo Ponti )
music Emilia Zanetti
camera Otello Martelli
cut Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation

Die Rote is a German-Italian feature film from 1962 . It is based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Andersch , who also wrote the screenplay. First performance was on June 30, 1962.

action

Franziska Lukas lives in a middle-class milieu in Germany and finds her marriage to Herbert Lukas extremely boring. Even a love affair with another man does little to change this state of affairs. She doesn't lack anything, but she is approaching 40 and would like to give her life another turn. Her current life seems to be foreseeable. She breaks out and goes to Venice . There she looks for work and starts working as a maid in a hotel. The change and new acquaintances make her life seem more exciting now. Erotic and criminal adventures await. She meets a former British officer who wants to take revenge on a German Nazi. Franziska has to realize, however, that this man is only using her for his plans. So she also flees from the new situation in life.

Production notes

The film was shot from January 15 to March 15, 1962. The studio Tirrenia in Pisa served as a studio . The outdoor shots were taken in Venice and Milan . The premiere took place on June 30, 1962 as part of the IFF Berlin 1962 , the cinema release on July 4, 1962 in the Zoo Palast .

Reviews

The film was initially rated as disappointing. The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “Käutner's film does not even come close to the narrative quality, complexity and time-critical significance of the novel. Ruth Leuwerik owes the main character her intelligent vitality. Gert Fröbe, however, delivers a brilliant performance in the role of the Nazi murderer Kramer. "The Heyne Filmlexikon (1996) judged:" Unsuccessful, boring film in which Gert Fröbe alone excels as an actor. "

A deliberate ambiguity was later emphasized in the film. In his essay on Helmut Käutner in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film , Georg Seeßlen wrote that Käutner's tendency to distance and alienation occasionally lead, as with Monpti and Die Rote, "to a violent revolt against the spirit of the literary model". In an interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on her 80th birthday, Ruth Leuwerik was asked about the film: “One of the last films back then is one of your most beautiful, Die Rote , based on the novel by Alfred Andersch.” Answer from Ruth Leuwerik: “It ran on the Berlinale, and it was very bleak. But the work was very nice. And the atmosphere of Venice is wonderfully captured. This whole 'morbidezza' (= softness). ”Even the film scholar Norbert Grob saw the work positively in retrospect. Helmut Käutner had achieved a “miraculous effect” by casting the nervous, internally torn title character with the staid, somewhat stiff Ruth Leuwerik: “Instead of disavowing the feeling of turmoil, as the contemporary critics emphasized, the leisurely play of Leuwerik outlines especially the inconsistency of doing and thinking / feeling all the more clearly. "

Awards

The film ran in 1962 in the competition at the Berlinale , but did not receive any awards.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Lexicon of International Films" (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  2. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Helmut Käutner
  3. ↑ The red one. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 23, 2004
  5. ^ History of German Film , edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes and Hans Helmut Prinzler, 2nd edition, JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2004, p. 222