Great Love (1931)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The great love |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Otto Ludwig Preminger |
| script |
Siegfried Bernfeld Artur Berger |
| production |
Philipp Hamber Otto Ludwig Preminger |
| music | Walter Landauer |
| camera | Hans Theyer |
| cut | Paul Falkenberg |
| occupation | |
and Martin Berliner , Julius Brandt , Karl Ehmann , Richard Eybner , Melanie Horeschowsky , Karl Kneidinger , Irene Seidner , Fritz Strassny , Emmy Förster | |
The great love is an Austrian film drama from 1931 with Hansi Niese and Attila Hörbiger in the leading roles in the form of a Viennese folk play on the subject of motherly love . The Viennese theater maker Otto Preminger directed a film here for the first time.
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Vienna, 1927. Old Frieda, a middle-class Viennese businesswoman with a modest grocer, has been waiting for ten years for her son Franz, who has been missing since 1917, to return home from the First World War. She has already dreamed three times that the beloved offspring is at the door. One day Frieda saw a picture in the newspaper of a young man who was not named. He fished out a girl named Erika, who carelessly played with a ball in the dark directly on the quay wall of the Danube Canal and fell into the water, thereby saving her life. The old woman never doubts for a moment that this lifesaver must be her Franz. Frieda immediately went in search of this child savior and, after a long march through the Viennese office bureaucracy, found Franz in a barrack where he was staying with other late returnees who are currently homeless. When the two actually meet, Frieda is so joyful as a mother that she takes Franz, a returnee from Russia, by surprise with her happiness and generosity, so that Franz agrees to do her the favor of moving in with her and the "prodigal son" to play.
Frieda gives everything to be there for her supposed son. Since the successful taxi entrepreneur Huber, whose daughter Anny is known to her, started out with a taxi, Frieda Franz also wants to buy a taxi to start her professional life. Frieda forged her savings bank savings book by adding a handwritten zero to the real account balance of 1000 ATS in order to enable the purchase of a taxi. The dizziness is promptly exposed and puts Franz in dire straits because of fraud. Frieda goes to the police inspector responsible and confesses that she forged the savings account and not Franz. Franz has also met the lovely Anny in the meantime, and they both enjoy each other. According to her father's will, Anny is supposed to meet the stuffy and awkward lawyer Dr. Steinlechner marry, which the girl is anything but enthusiastic about. When her father wants to announce the arranged wedding for Anny's birthday, Anny buys out a catering tray filled with all kinds of goodies and goes to Frieda and Franz, where she feels much more comfortable. There Franz Anny inaugurates the entire story about Frieda, the prodigal son Franz and his role in this story and asks the girl not to tell Frieda that he is by no means Frieda's son. The police commissioner stops the investigation into the alleged attempted fraud against a small fine, and Anny and Franz can now start a future together on the journey home in the taxi that has been paid for. In the back seat of the vehicle, Frieda tells her neighbor Rosa that she has long known that this Franz is not her son Franz, but she doesn't want Franz to find out.
Production notes
The great love originated in Vienna in October 1931 and was premiered there on December 21, 1931. The German premiere was on March 10, 1932 in the Berlin Marble House . The film was shown on television for the first time on February 19, 1999 on arte .
Artur Berger designed the film structures carried out by Emil Stepanek , while Alfred Norkus provided the sound. Frank Fox arranged Walter Landauer's film composition.
In addition to director Preminger, theater actors Martin Berliner , Vilma Degischer and Adrienne Gessner also made their film debuts here.
The following music titles published by Ludwig Doblinger in Vienna were played:
- Miss, may I ask you ...?
- Today is today - tomorrow is tomorrow
Reviews
The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “Based on a true story, two Viennese authors, Siegfried Bernfeld and Artur Berger, have created an extraordinarily effective screenplay with a brilliant role for the popular and perhaps most popular Viennese actress Hansi Niese True-to-life, authentic Viennese woman from the people ... to be recreated in inimitable authenticity. (...) There are many highlights in this film: the moment when the “mother” meets her supposed son for the first time and weeps in pain and bliss is unmatched in intimacy and rousing violence. Otto Ludwig Preminger's direction provides an abundance of lively episodes, whereby the humorous comes into its own. (...) Hugo Thimig offers a brilliant performance in the episode role of a good-natured, but outwardly gruff police inspector "
“It is true that the film does not yet reveal much of the playful elegance of Preminger's later films; Nevertheless, the humorous-sentimental melodrama with a socially realistic element is not without its charm, because it tells of the power of illusions and is carried by good leading actors. "
Individual proof
- ↑ "The great love". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , December 26, 1931, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ The Great Love in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on December 24, 2018
Web links
- The great love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The great love at filmportal.de