You are the rose from the Wörthersee (film)

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Movie
Original title You are the rose from the Wörthersee
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hubert Marischka
script Rudolf Austrian
Hubert Marischka
production Algefa -Film GmbH, Berlin
( Friedrich Wilhelm Gaik )
music Hans Lang
camera Bruno Timm
cut Walter von Bonhorst
occupation

Du bist die Rose vom Wörthersee is a German fiction film in black and white (with a strong reference to Austria) by Hubert Marischka from 1952. The screenplay was written by the director together with Rudolf Österreicher . The title alludes to the then very popular hit song of the same name , which was composed by Hans Lang in 1947 , texted by Erich Meder and used as the theme melody for this film. The leading roles are cast with Marte Harell , Waltraut Haas , Hans Moser and Curd Jürgens . Grethe Weiser can be seen in a leading role .

The film premiered on December 5, 1952 in the Federal Republic of Germany. In Austria, where most of the action is set, it was released in January of the following year.

action

Jack Milston is a successful Broadway composer . In his new revue , the dancer Kate Smith plays the leading role. When the two get to know each other better, they fall in love. It turns out that they have something in common: they are Austrian compatriots. Because both of them are homesick, they say goodbye to the New World. But no sooner have they arrived in Europe than they part ways again. Jack has business to do in Germany, and Kate, whose real name is Käthe Schmiedlechner, goes to her widowed sister Rosl, who runs the hotel "Karawankenblick" in Carinthia on Lake Wörthersee . At the destination station, she hears her name being called out loud. Her father Ferdinand, a retired tax officer, picks her up in the livery of a wage clerk. He had sent his daughter to an American hotel management school for training. He has no inkling of her career as a ballet dancer. Both Rosl and Ferdinand fell from the clouds when Jack Milston arrived a few days later as Kathe's fiancé, of all people, with whom Rosl was once in love. Her father had expelled him from the house because he was just a penniless musician. And the disappointment is written on someone else's face: Thomas Führinger, the son of the local master butcher. He is still in love with Käthe and has been waiting eagerly for her return, and now she has decided on someone else.

Little by little, the old feelings for each other revive in Rosl and Jack. When they sit together in the hotel garden and an accordion player sings the song “You are the rose from Lake Wörthersee”, which Jack had composed for Rosl before his trip to America, both of them are over. They hug each other and kiss. Käthe arrives and realizes that there is no point holding Jack if he loves someone more than she does. At the end there is the engagement between the composer and the hotel owner. Käthe turns back to young Führinger.

Production notes

The shooting on Lake Wörthersee lasted until September, which was, contrary to the airy summer clothes, icy cold. The studio recordings were made in the CCC-Film studio in Berlin-Spandau, the outdoor recordings in Velden am Wörther See . Willi A. Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann were responsible for the buildings, production management was in the hands of producer Friedrich Wilhelm Gaik and Carl Hofer .

criticism

The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the film tells a sentimental romance with comic clothes in a flat musical entertainment film.

source

Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , Verlag FILM-BÜHNE GmbH, Munich, number 1795

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatrice Weinmann: Waltraut Haas , Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten and Salzburg 2007, p. 157
  2. ^ Alfred Bauer : German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 248 f.
  3. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 760