The Isle of the Dead (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The island of the dead |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 97, 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Viktor Tourjansky |
| script |
Juliane Kay Viktor Tourjansky Victor de Fast Lore Stapenhorst Erich Kröhnke |
| production | Herbert O. Horn |
| music | Hans-Otto Borgmann |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Walter Fredersdorf |
| occupation | |
and Harald Holberg , Victor de Fast, Pia von Rüden , Eduard Marcks , Walter Grüters , Ilse Kohl , Marieluise Loepki | |
Die Toteninsel is a German movie melodrama from 1955 by Viktor Tourjansky with Willy Birgel in the leading role. The film is based on the novel of the same name by the then Hörzu editor-in-chief Eduard Rhein under the pseudonym "Hans-Ulrich Horster".
action
The island of the dead, that is the island of Lampur, a place of the damned in the middle of the South Seas . Because only people suffering from leprosy are shipped here, who should be kept away from the rest of the people as lepers. Among them are a singer with a loss of voice, an architect of places of worship and a religious priest. When one day a ship lands with a number of visitors, something like humanity returns for the first time, because these guests want to stay on the island of the dead because of their strong human ties to the lepers. There is the terminally ill Frank Gordon, who asks his wife Maria in vain to leave him and go back to safe Europe. There is no happy ending for him: he is stabbed to death by mutinous fellow islanders.
Another visitor to Lampur is called Stefan. He came here to look for his wife, whom he was once separated from in Korea . The surprise is great when Stefan finds her again as the island doctor's partner. In the end, it is Stefan and Maria who come together here on site through their common suffering and thus discover a reason for a more carefree life. Despair and human greatness, decency and trust in God coexist on Lampur, but when the visitors have left the island of the dead, the island of the damned sinks again into oblivion from which it had emerged for a moment.
Production notes
The Island of the Dead was created in (then) Yugoslav Split and Brela (exterior shots) and in Munich-Geiselgasteig (studio shots) and was premiered on August 23, 1955 in the Berlin Marble House .
Alfred Bittins was production manager. Wilhelm Vorwerg and F.-Dieter Bartels were responsible for the film construction. Hannes Staudinger worked as a simple cameraman to head cameraman Günther Anders . Werner Schlagge took care of the sound, Ilse Kohl designed the costumes and also played a tiny role.
Reviews
In its September 7, 1955 edition, Der Spiegel found: “Marriages are separated and renewed on the leprosy ward in the South Pacific - healthy guests on the" island of the dead "trigger many individual dramas and conflicts. The film ... is consistently full of effects, even if sometimes theatrically crooked. Karin Hardt, who appears for the first time after a long break, surpasses all of the other players in a small role as a faded, leprous, friendly, resigned manufacturer. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "A problem film, typical for the entertainment cinema of the 50s: Since its narrative and intellectual possibilities are too untrue and immature, it never has the strength to shake."
Individual evidence
- ^ The island of the dead on Der Spiegel, 37/1955
- ↑ The Isle of the Dead. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2019 .
Web links
- Isle of the Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The island of the dead at filmportal.de