The shadows grow longer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The shadows grow longer |
| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ladislao Vajda |
| script |
István Békeffy Heinz Pauck |
| production |
Lazar Wechsler for Praesens, Zurich Artur Brauner for CCC, Berlin |
| music | Robert Blum |
| camera | Heinrich Gärtner |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
| occupation | |
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The shadows are getting longer is a Swiss-German film drama from 1961 with Luise Ullrich , Barbara Rütting and Hansjörg Felmy in the leading roles.
action
Ms. Diethelm has appointed the committed and courageous teacher Christa Andres to run a home for girls who are difficult to educate. Christa herself has had a difficult life, even worked as a prostitute for a while and knows best how to deal with recalcitrant young women who threatened to get off the beaten path or who had already gotten off the ground before they came to this school. Her particular problem child is the almost grown-up Erika, who reminds Christa strongly of her own youth. Again and again there are violent arguments between the two women.
One day Erika is fed up with the numerous rules and regulations. So one day she runs away. But Christa does not want to give up Erika and picks up her trail, which leads to the red-light district of the city. As luck would have it, just there Christa meets her former pimp Max, a pretty bad guy. Just as he harassed Christa once, he threatens to be a danger for Erika and thus for all those arduous attempts at rehabilitation that Christa had made so far. Max tries to put Christa under pressure and threatens to reveal Christa's past if Erika doesn't let him do it. To spare Erika her own fate, Christa kills Max. The teacher is arrested and has to go to prison for what she did. In return, however, she won Erika's respect and prevented her from taking a terrible step towards her doom.
Production notes
The Shadows Become Longer was created from February 28, 1961 to April of the same year in Zurich and the CCC-Film Studios in Berlin-Spandau. The premiere was on July 7, 1961 in Zurich, the German premiere on August 11, 1961. After The Marriage of Mr Mississippi, it was another collaboration between the two major producers Lazar Wechsler (Switzerland) and Artur Brauner (Berlin) in 1961.
The Swiss film structures were designed by Max Röthlisberger , the German ones by Wilhelm Vorwerg . The actor Max Haufler served as assistant director for Ladislao Vajda, who was again signed up from Spain. Vajda and his cameraman Heinrich Gärtner had shot the extremely successful Dürrenmatt crime thriller Es Happened in broad daylight with Heinz Rühmann for Wechsler's Praesens back in 1958 .
For the 30s and 40s screen star Luise Ullrich, The Shadows are getting longer and the previously filmed homecoming melodrama Mrs. Irene Besser heralded the end of her film career. The film's large personal lexicon writes about the assessment of her role orientation during the Adenauer years: “Luise Ullrich's post-war roles were mostly the good mothers and neglected wives, but also decision-makers who took responsibility, who, with their hearts in the right place, were brave for their ideals and economic issues Fight family survival. The sober, solid pragmatism lived out in their play often prevented the overly sentimental themes of the scripts from slipping into pure sentimentality. After her title role as a department store manager in "Frau Irene Besser" and the role of a home manager for difficult-to-educate girls in "The Shadows Get Longer", Luise Ullrich withdrew from film in 1961. "
Reviews
"The overly constructed story prevents the film from convincingly conveying its good intention - an understanding of young people at risk."
"The Hungarian-born Ladislao Vajda cut a film based on this plot that stands out ingloriously from the director's earlier works (" The Secret of Marcelino "," The Dog That Was Mister Bozzi "). Although files from the Zurich moral police served as documents for the script, only colportage was created. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 100.
- ↑ The shadows are getting longer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- The shadows lengthen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The shadows are getting longer at filmportal.de