Dorothea Angermann
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| Original title | Dorothea Angermann |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Robert Siodmak |
| script | Herbert Reinecker |
| production | Divina-Film, Munich ( Utz Utermann ) |
| music | Siegfried Franz |
| camera | Georg Krause |
| cut | Walter Boos |
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Dorothea Angermann is a German black and white film by Robert Siodmak from 1959 with Ruth Leuwerik , Bert Sotlar , Alfred Schieske and Kurt Meisel in the leading roles. The script, which is based on motifs from the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann , which premiered in 1926 , was written by Herbert Reinecker .
action
Dorothea Angermann, the daughter of a respected pastor in a rural community, has been charged with the murder of her husband. During the process, the event is told in flashbacks:
Ever since Pastor Angermann's wife tried to find happiness in another man, the man has been drawn and unhappy. Because he wants to avoid the same fate happening to his only daughter, he has brought her up in strict discipline and order. When Dorothea takes part in a cooking class in the district town, she meets lots of young girls who are full of curiosity for life. Everyone raves about the chef Mario. He's already wrapped most of his students around his finger. Now it would actually be Dorothea's turn. She is also waiting for him to turn to her. But because he has found another victim, Dorothea walks sadly through the city and seeks refuge in a hotel. There she met the engineer Michael Sever, who saw her depression and took care of her. When he is called off by wire, he promises Dorothea that he will contact her again.
Several weeks later, Sever is at the door of the rectory. He asks Dorothea to become his wife; but she gives him a basket. Sever leaves the house disappointed.
Dorothea is expecting a child from Mario. When she confesses this to her father, he forces her to marry the cook. For Dorothea, however, marriage is like running the gauntlet . With the money she received from her father for the wedding, her husband makes a brisk life. Dorothea is betrayed and mistreated by him. When she can't stand him anymore, she starts to drink. In another argument with her husband, she falls to the ground and gives birth to her child dead.
When she is released from the clinic, Dorothea is afraid of going home. Then she meets Michael Sever again at the train station. She tells him the whole story. Michael would prefer to take her to his apartment right away. But first she wants to tell her husband that she is leaving him forever. After hours of waiting in vain, Michael goes home alone, not knowing that the woman he loves was arrested for killing her husband.
However, the court came to the conclusion that Dorothea Angermann acted in self-defense . Therefore, she is acquitted. Nothing stands in the way of a marriage with Michael Sever.
Production notes
The film was directed by the production company Co. KG DIVINA-FILM GmbH & manufactured. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The outdoor photos were taken in Hamburg , for example at what was then the Hamburg-Altona train station, and the studio photos were taken from November to December 1958 in the Bavaria-Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig.
The film was shown for the first time on January 22, 1959 in Hamburg, Ufa-Palast.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film notes succinctly that the film tells a "half embarrassing, half moving story". Even Der Spiegel shows just wide. He complains that the director did not succeed in transforming the original into a credible psychological cinema hit. What came out was "bland and dull". Ruth Leuwerik is also said to be “unable to play the title role as the motherless pastor's daughter who was already severely tested as a minor; where sensuality is necessary, it is at best vaguely precocious. "
Web links
- Dorothea Angermann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dorothea Angermann at filmportal.de
- Five pictures from the film at Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Georg Krause
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 710
- ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: Dorothea Angermann (Germany). In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1959 ( online ).