The fault of Gabriele Rottweil

Movie
German title	The fault of Gabriele Rottweil
Original title	Regimental music
Country of production	German Empire
original language	German
Publishing year	1950
length	80 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Arthur Maria Rabenalt
script	Peter Francke based on a novel by Hans Gustl Kernmayr
production	Ottmar Ostermayr (production group)
music	Lothar Bruhne
camera	Franz Koch
cut	Gertrud Hinz
occupation
Heidemarie Hatheyer : Gabriele von Wahl Friedrich Domin : Lord of choice Siegfried Breuer : Dr. Robert Rottweil Kurt Müller-Graf : Lieutenant Rainer von Teschenbach Gustav Waldau : Uncle Max Anton Pointner : Heinrich von Stammer Gabriele Reismüller : Gusti Dankl Heini Handschumacher : Rudi von Geldern Emil Matousek : Hugo Walter Holten : Colonel Weippert Rosemarie Grosser : Gusti's friend Resi Mizzi Griebl : Housekeeper Veronica Walther Jung : Chief Medical Officer Dr. Wegener in the field hospital Sepp Nigg : Soldier who brings the mail Fritz Reiff : General practitioner by choice Karl Schaidler : Soldier Fischer who distributes the mail Paul Wagner : Judge-Martial Westermann Beppo Brem : Field soldier handing the rum mug Joseph Offenbach : Assistant doctor and Heinz Kargus , Werner Nippen , Kurt Porsch , Wastl Witt , Kurt Baumann

Regimentsmusik , renamed Die Schuld der Gabriele Rottweil at the belated premiere in 1950 , is a German feature film made in 1944 by Arthur Maria Rabenalt . Heidemarie Hatheyer and Siegfried Breuer play the leading roles . The story is based on the novel of the same name (1941) by Hans Gustl Kernmayr .

action

Germany on the eve of the First World War . In Munich, the squadronur and flaneur Robert Rottweil lives the life of a woman-loving bohemian. Although he is supposed to marry Gabriele von Wahl, who comes from aristocratic circles, at the request of his upper-class parents, he also keeps a lover, Gustl Dankl, who comes from a simple background. Now, in July 1914, Rottweil finally wants to get down to business, part with Gustl and ask Gabriele to say yes. But Gabriele's heart is no longer free, she has fallen in love with the handsome Lieutenant Rainer von Teschenbach. He has already introduced her to his uncle Max, who raised Rainer instead of his father, as his future wife. Gabriele, who would like to marry Rainer and not Robert, has to refrain from this plan for the time being, because Lieutenant Teschenbach is called to arms and sent to the front. Gabriele resolves to wait for her loved one with whom she spends a night of love.

But soon things happen that finally overturn Gabriele's plans. Your uncle Heinrich takes his own life because he has gambled away not only his own but also that of his brother, Gabriele's father, through speculation. Mr. von Wahl then suffers a stroke and asks Robert to go to his sick bed. He informs him that he is releasing him from his marriage vows, because he, by choice, can no longer offer him, Robert Rottweil, a fatherly dowry . Robert offers the old man his financial help and thus secures Mr. von Wahl's existence. Gabriele von Wahl, who shortly before had made it clear to Robert that she would not marry him under any circumstances, changes her mind. She does not want to be indebted to Rottweil and is touched by his generosity. She now agrees to stand in front of the altar with Rottweil and asks Uncle Max to inform Rainer about her decision and the background that led to it.

For Gabriele Rottweil, the marriage becomes a marriage of convenience, and both promise to be good comrades to each other. Robert Rottweil secretly hopes that Gabriele will learn to love him over time. One day Gabriele learns from Uncle Max that Rainer was badly wounded at the front. She quickly rushes to his sickbed. She doesn't know that Max, out of sheer mercy, hadn't told Rainer about Gabriele's marriage. Lying dying, he asked Gabriele for one last favor: As part of an emergency wedding, he would like to marry Gabriele here and now. Since Gabriele does not want to refuse this last service of love, she agrees with a heavy heart. When Rainer dies a little later, Gabriele therefore receives a telegram addressed to her as Gabriele von Teschenbach, which promptly falls into Robert's hands. A heated argument ensues and Gabriele leaves the marital apartment.

Gabriele Rottweil files a self-disclosure for bigamy . Uncle Max goes to her husband and explains the details of the situation to him. a. that it was he who hadn't told his nephew Rainer about Gabriele's wedding, so that he was completely clueless. Robert is relieved by this news and appears in court during the trial. Here he is generously committed to his wife. After all, Gabriele Rottweil's guilt is only very minor and the young woman receives a one-month suspended sentence. The comradeship marriage between her and Robert can now develop into a love affair.

Production notes

Filming began on May 5, 1944 and ended on July 11 of the same year. The film was censored in March 1945, but it did not premiere before the end of the war. It took place in Düsseldorf on September 1, 1950, very late. The Berlin premiere was on November 24, 1950 in the west of the city.

Ludwig Reiber and Rudolf Pfenninger created the film structures, Ursula Maes created the costumes. Carl Heinz Becker was responsible for the sound.

Regimental music was originally supposed to be staged by GW Pabst .

criticism

At Filmdienst it says: "Trendy, lewd social drama."

Individual evidence

1. ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 92
2. ↑ The guilt of Gabriele Rottweil. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2020 .  

Web links

• The guilt of Gabriele Rottweil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The fault of Gabriele Rottweil at filmportal.de