The city is full of secrets

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Movie
Original title The city is full of secrets
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Fritz Kortner
script Curt Johannes Braun
Fritz Kortner based
on the play of the same name by CJ Braun
production Walter Koppel for Real-Film , Hamburg
music Michael Jary
camera Albert Benitz
cut Klaus Dudenhöfer
occupation

The city is full of secrets is a German fiction film directed in 1954 by Fritz Kortner .

action

In episodic form, Kortner's production tells of the worries and hardships of the employees of a small north German factory who threaten to lose their jobs.

Because this industrial plant got into massive financial difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell his company against the resistance of his resolute daughter and fires all employees. Soon some massive existential fears spread, each of which deals with very differently. The advertising manager and his fiancée, the operator, continue to be optimistic about the future and are certain that they will soon find work again in the economic miracle of the Federal Republic. Even the bookkeeper, who was about to get married, already has the prospect of a new job: he is to become a travel manager and chaperone for a group of traveling mannequins. For some of his colleagues, however, the situation is very different.

There is, for example, the chief secretary who is betrayed by her partner, the general manager, but then finds new hope and a common future with an engineer. While searching for a new position, the correspondent is suspected of murder until the murderer turns himself in. The cashier of the company commits suicide out of desperation and lets his colleagues, shocked by the incident, pause for a moment. In the end, the CEO's daughter can change her father's mind. She takes over the management of the company and reverses all dismissals. All those involved want to overcome the economic crisis in a joint effort.

Production notes

The city is full of secrets was shot in the summer / autumn of 1954 in the Real-Film -Studios in Hamburg-Wandsbek and in Lütjensee (exterior shots), passed the FSK exam on November 24, 1954 and was on January 4, 1955 in Berlin and Munich premiered.

Gyula Trebitsch was the production manager, Heinz-Günther Saß was the production manager. The film structures were designed by Herbert Kirchhoff and F.-Dieter Bartels , the costumes, as in most Real Film productions, come from Trebitsch's wife Erna Sander . Werner Schlagge provided the sound . Film editor Klaus Dudenhöfer also served Kortner as assistant director.

For Wilfried Seyferth this was the last film; he died a little later in a traffic accident. The roles of Alice Treff and Angelika Hauff fell victim to the cut.

The strip, Fritz Kortner's first film director since 1932, was a commercial failure.

Reviews

“Fritz Kortner's first film director in decades released some film stars from their own template. Paul Hörbiger and Grethe Weiser, thrown off course in this way, show themselves as talented character players, others - like Lucie Mannheim and Walther Suessenguth - were anyway, still others - like Adrian Hoven and Georg Thomalla - Kortner couldn't change either. The stage model of the same name, a pointed everyday scene by Curt J. Braun, is in no way enhanced visually and atmospherically by the filming. "

- Der Spiegel , edition 4/1955, p. 32

"... a film that was excellent in terms of its acting and interesting in terms of criticism, which only failed because too many social and psychological issues were addressed."

- Heinrich Fraenkel : Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the first tone to the colored wide screen. Munich 1957, p. 197

“In the overloaded, unfocused film, Kortner gives away the approaches to social criticism and the study of the milieu by speculating with superficial dramatic and comic effects on the audience. The cast alone, down to the small roles, saves the film from being irrelevant. "

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. P. 197
  2. The city is full of secrets. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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