The Holy Lie (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The holy lie |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script |
Eberhard Keindorff Johanna Sibelius |
| production | Kurt Ulrich |
| music | Herbert Trantow |
| camera | Kurt Schulz |
| cut | Hermann Leitner |
| occupation | |
and Maria Sebaldt , Fritz Tillmann , Erich Arnold | |
The holy lie is a German melodrama by Wolfgang Liebeneiner from 1955. The leading roles are played by Ulla Jacobsson and Karlheinz Böhm .
action
Lena Larsen is a simple and also a little inexperienced country girl. She goes to the big city to look for a job as a housemaid in the villa of the wealthy textile manufacturer Otto Weiland. The naive, young woman quickly falls in love with Peter Weiland, the dissolute, useless son of the house, who stays in dubious establishments and gets involved with such types. Lena has known him since he and her brother Bo, who is also a hallodri, run questionable slide dealers. One day Peter gets into a bad mess when he is (rightly) suspected of stealing 1,000 DM. Out of love for him, however, Lena gives him an alibi and tells a “holy lie”, as the film title suggests, to save Peter from being kicked out of his father's house.
This leads to the fact that father Otto tries to end the relationship, which in his eyes is disapproved of as inappropriate, by immediately dismissing Lena and sending the failed Filius to a business friend. But Lena Larsen came out pregnant from the night of love. Peter emerges purified from the experiences he has made and stands by the young woman. He is now ready to stop doing dark business and finally to take up an honest job, the very dirty one of a coal loader. He is then allowed to return to the family's lap. Peter and Lena finally get married and the christening of their child is celebrated to the sound of the song “Sleep, my child, go to sleep”.
Production notes
The holy lie was shot in the Berlin-Tempelhof film studio in the winter of 1954/55 and premiered on April 7, 1955 in Braunschweig. On May 18 of the same year the Berlin premiere was in the western part of the city.
Heinz Willeg worked as production manager. Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter designed the film structures. Liselotte Malkowsky and the Regensburger Domspatzen sing .
For the two main actors Jacobsson and Böhm, this film was a reunion after only a short time. A few months earlier they had filmed the Sudermann film under the same director and the same scriptwriters ... and love stays forever .
criticism
In Filmdienst states: "Unfortunately, this was gross mischief a director who seriously took it and accordingly staged."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The holy lie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2019 .
Web links
- The holy lie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The holy lie at filmportal.de