The Blue Hour (1953)

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Movie
Original title The blue hour
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Veit Harlan
script Veit Harlan
production Komet-Film, Munich
( Jürgen Mohrbutter
Hellmuth Schönnenbeck )
music Franz Grothe
camera Werner Krien
Gerhard Kruger
cut Walter Boos
occupation

The Blue Hour is a German comedy film from 1953 by Veit Harlan , who also wrote the screenplay. The leading roles are cast with Kristina Söderbaum , Hans Nielsen , Paulette Andrieux and Kurt Kreuger . The black and white film with color sequences in Agfacolor opened in German cinemas on March 5, 1953.

action

The German university professor Paul and the Swedish musician Angelika have been happily married for years. In Angelika's eyes, her husband's biggest mistake is that he often robs her of sleep with his loud snoring. But because she doesn't want to offend him, she is silent.

One day the couple received an invitation from the fashion house "Dulong & Co." to a social evening. The head of the company is Paul's cousin and was once briefly engaged to Angelika. After Angelica broke off the engagement, Dulong married the lovely Lou. However, this marriage cannot be called a happy one. Everyone goes their own way. With the invitation to the social evening, Angelika von Dulong had received an elegant dress "for advertising reasons". However, this does not suit her husband at all; it grows more and more into a jealousy. But Angelika also becomes jealous when she sees her husband chatting intensely with Lou. Paul only has to learn one bitter truth: Lou tells him bluntly that she knows from Angelika that he snores and that his wife suffers from it.

The professor decides to have his snoring eliminated by a doctor. But because the operation involves some dangers, he doesn't want to inform his wife until everything is over happily. So he cheats Angelika into having to travel to Capri. So that Angelika also believes this, he gives his cousin, who is currently planning such a trip, a few pre-made postcards, which he should then bring to the post office at the destination. Dulong believes Paul is just taking a few weeks off from the marriage and agrees.

When the cards from Capri arrive and one of them is one that contains a strange lettering, Angelika believes that her husband has betrayed her. Immediately she goes to Capri. When she meets Dulong there, she realizes that she has been lied to.

Angelika, Paul and Dulong meet again at home. Angelika immediately asks her husband to tell about his trip to Capri. Smiling, a big story of lies comes from his lips. Angelika then explains that she knows very well that he was not on Capri. She was there herself - with Dulong! Indignant, she disappears from the house. After a few moments of retardation , the truth gradually emerges, and the brawlers are reconciled again. You decide to go on a second honeymoon - to Capri.

additions

The blue hour was filmed from November 3, 1952 to January 10, 1953 in the Göttingen studio. The exterior shots on the Italian island of Capri were shot in October 1952. While the rest of the film was shot in black and white, the scenes shot in Italy are in color. The buildings were designed by the film architect Walter Haag . The film was shown in Austria under the title Fire Trial of Love .

criticism

The lexicon of the international film notes that the film contains “a superficial cheerfulness and melancholy thoughtfulness in the everyday marriage of a couple of different ages and temperaments”. Taken as a whole, the film represents “Harlan's unsuccessful attempt to stage a“ contemporary comedy ”for Kristina Söderbaum”.

source

Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Veit Harlan
  2. ^ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 360