The Divorced Woman (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The divorced woman |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script |
Walter Forster Joachim Wedekind |
| production | Cine-Allianz Film GmbH, Munich ( Gregor Rabinowitsch ) |
| music |
Friedrich Schröder Leo case |
| camera | Konstantin Irmen-Tschet |
| cut |
Walter von Bonhorst Jutta Hering |
| occupation | |
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The Divorced Woman is a German feature film by Georg Jacoby from 1953. Marika Rökk and Johannes Heesters were cast in the main roles . The script was written by Walter Forster and Joachim Wedekind . It is based on the operetta of the same name by Leo Fall . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was shown for the first time on September 17, 1953.
action
Lukas van Deesteldonck is not only president of the Dutch sleeping car company, but also extremely pedantic and sometimes choleric. His wife Gonda, a well-known revue star, has a completely different temperament. That is why there is always a crisis in the marriage.
On a train journey from Paris to Amsterdam, Gonda is offered his sleeping coupé by her stage partner Karel van Lyssewege after she couldn't get one herself. When Karel said goodbye to his partner, the door of the compartment suddenly no longer opens due to a design fault, so the two of them have to spend the night in the same room. Only on arrival in Amsterdam can a locksmith fix the mishap. Word of what happened quickly got around and turned into a scandal. Lukas van Deesteldonck believes his wife cheated on him. There is a divorce.
One day Gonda receives a visit from her father, who is a missionary in Borneo. He couldn't get over it if he found out that his daughter was divorced. So she gets Karel to play the role of husband. The two get closer. As if out of nowhere, Gonda's ex also appears, who wants to win her back because he has since been able to convince himself that he has done her injustice. It doesn't take long, however, before he realizes that his ex-girlfriend is forever lost to him.
When the pastor said goodbye to his daughter and her “husband” the next day to return to Borneo, he was very happy that the two young people were a happy couple.
music
You can hear some songs from the operetta based on texts by Günther Schwenn :
- In a sleeping coupé, in a sleeping coupé, you drive through the night
- Gonda, dear little Gonda,
- This is Paris, the city where you don't go to sleep at night and
- Once in a lifetime I would like to experience what is not everyday! ( Barcarole )
- Child, let's dance like man and woman.
They do not sound in the original instrumentation by Leo Fall, but in an arrangement by Friedrich Schröder , who also directs the Kurt Graunke Symphony Orchestra (now the Munich Symphony Orchestra ).
additions
The film was produced in the Bavaria Film studio in Geiselgasteig . The outdoor shots were taken in the tulip fields of the Dutch Keukenhof gardens near the southern Dutch municipality of Lisse , in Paris and in Benrath Palace in Düsseldorf. The buildings were created by the film architect and production designer Robert Herlth with the help of Gottfried Will and Peter Scharff . Trude Ulrich contributed the costumes. The choreography was done by Sabine Ress . The solo dancers were Freya Lieven, Claus Cristofolini and Hellmuth Ketels. Fritz Klotzsch acted as production manager.
criticism
The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the strip is a “made-up conversation in which Marika Rökk also only presents mediocre things”.
source
Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number
Web links
- The divorced woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The divorced woman at filmportal.de
- A few pictures from the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1301