Don Carlos (1960)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Don Carlos |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 105 (Austria), 100 (Germany) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Josef Gielen (theater director) Alfred Stöger (picture director) |
| script | after Friedrich Schiller's Don Karlos |
| production | Alfred Stöger |
| music | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
| camera |
Elio Carniel Sepp Ketterer Anton Pucher |
| cut | Renate Jelinek |
| occupation | |
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Don Carlos is an Austrian theatrical version made in 1960 of the famous drama of the same name with Walther Reyer in the title role. Josef Gielen was responsible for the stage production, Alfred Stöger for the picture direction.
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The Spanish Crown Prince Don Carlos meets his childhood friend Marquis Posa again. The fighter for political renewal in Spain wants to convince the king's son to have himself sent to the Spanish province of Flanders as governor to establish peace between the colonial power and the Protestant Dutch . But Carlos has other things in mind, he tells the Marquis of his love for Elisabeth von Valois , who became the second wife of his father, King Philip II , and thus his stepmother. Posa arranges a meeting between Carlos and the new queen. At this secret rendezvous, Carlos reveals to his stepmother that he loves her. Elisabeth, however, wants to remain loyal to her husband Philipp, whom she values very much as a human being. She demands of her stepson to devote his love not to her but rather to his fatherland. Don Carlos then asks his father to be transferred to Flanders, but King Philip believes that he is unsuitable for this post and wants to send the power-hungry Duke of Alba instead.
When Carlos receives a love letter from Princess Eboli, he believes that the Queen wrote the lines. But the young sender is a lady-in-waiting and loves the Infante, who in turn does not reciprocate her feelings. At the request of the king, Eboli is said to be his mistress and is therefore forced to marry Count Silva. Princess Eboli suspects that the queen is her rival for Carlos. She believes that Elisabeth stands between her, the Eboli, and her love for Don Carlos. Jealousy and anger over the rejection of the Infante lead the princess to inform King Philip about his son's liaison with the queen, which in truth is not. In the meantime, Marquis Posa persuades Don Carlos not to show the compromising love letter from Princess Eboli to the Queen, contrary to Carlos' intentions, and asks him to turn to his old ideals and political goals.
The Duke of Alba , a favorite of the king and an intriguer against the Infante, gives the king the meeting between the queen and Don Carlos. The generally suspicious Philip now believes that his wife Elisabeth could have cheated on him and decides to have her and Don Carlos murdered. The king only trusts the life-wise and world-experienced Marquis Posa and asks him to enter his service, which the Marquis initially refuses. When Philip finally names him his minister and closest advisor, Posa is urged to find out the true relationship between the king's son and the queen. But the Marquis Posa has his own plans. With the Queen and Don Carlos as his kindred spirits, he hopes to be able to implement a more liberal policy in Spain and free the Dutch from the Spanish yoke.
When the king discovers Eboli's letter to his son, and believes that it is a letter from his wife, the monarch senses high treason. He has his own son arrested - by Marquis Posa of all people - and thrown into dungeon. After some back and forth, the Marquis declares himself ready to sacrifice himself for idealistic reasons for Don Carlos, the friend he always relied on politically. Marquis Posa falls, struck down by a shot, and the Marquis sinks to the ground, fatally struck. Now Don Carlos' last loyal friend has gone missing. The King gives in to the Spanish Grand Inquisitor's request and delivers his son to him.
Production notes
Don Carlos is a stage film adaptation of a performance by the Vienna Burgtheater . The premiere took place on November 11, 1960, the German premiere on October 2, 1961.
The film-technical buildings were designed by Leo Metzenbauer .
Reviews
Paimann's film lists summed up: "The subject matter, which is somewhat entangled through overlapping actions, is not easy to overlook in stage production and iambic dialogues."
"Schiller's drama in the heavily abbreviated film recording of a Burgtheater performance, which is therefore somewhat impairing the context."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don Carlos in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Don Carlos. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Don Carlos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Don Carlos at filmportal.de