You my silent valley
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | You my silent valley |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leonard Steckel |
| script | Jacques Companéez |
| production |
CCC-Film GmbH, Berlin ( Artur Brauner ) |
| music | Georg Haentzschel |
| camera | Igor Oberberg |
| cut | Kurt Zeunert |
| occupation | |
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Du mein stilles Tal is a German feature film from 1955. It is based on the story of the confidentiality of Jacques Companéez , who also wrote the screenplay. Directed by Leonard Steckel . The main roles are occupied by Curd Jürgens , Winnie Markus and Bernhard Wicki .
action
In the opening credits of the film, you can hear the Heimatlied in the most beautiful meadow , beginning with you my quiet valley .
Nikky von Breithagen, daughter of Elisabeth and Gert Breithagen, is getting married today. Besides her mother, only three people know that Nikki is not Gert's daughter, and they are silent. They are bound by their duty of confidentiality . Nikky is happy because she loves her future husband from the bottom of her heart, just as he loves her. All acquaintances and relatives express their congratulations and wish the young couple a “happy marriage as their parents lead them” - at least that is the acceptance of all those present. Only Elisabeth's doctor , a close friend of the family, has an inkling of what Elisabeth is thinking about and what she remembers.
20 years ago Elisabeth married the brilliant looking, very respected and wealthy Gert von Breithagen. Gert loved the young woman. Elisabeth was undecided and more complied with the wishes of her parents, who saw Gert as the ideal man for their daughter. But shortly before they got married, the young woman met the man with whom she fell in love immediately and unconditionally. For him it was probably only a short escapade and he disappeared from Elisabeth's life as quickly as he had come and let nothing more be heard from him. When Elisabeth passed out briefly on their wedding day and the doctor examined her, she was desperate when he discovered she was pregnant . Gert couldn't be the father, there was only Erik Linden. In tears, Elisabeth admitted to her doctor, who is bound by confidentiality, that Gert was not the father of her child. She did not have the courage to admit the truth to her future husband either, and she married him knowing that she was lying. Gert never questioned being Nikki's father. The relationship between father and “daughter” could hardly have been better.
After many years had passed, Elisabeth met again, quite surprisingly, the man for whom she still felt so much. Erik, now a well-respected concert pianist , was now certain that Elisabeth was the woman of his life and wanted her to start a new life with him. At that time Elisabeth sought a conversation with her pastor and confessed to him the secret that weighed on her marriage. The pastor was also bound by his confessional secret . Elisabeth struggled a lot at the time, but in the end she decided to stay with her husband and child. Even now, she did not reveal the secret of Nikki's real father to her husband.
On Nikki's wedding day of all times, Gert von Breithagen succumbs to the charm of a friend of Nikki's. Rita, who flatters the mature man's interest, does everything to win him over. But Gert, who always sensed that there was something between him and Elisabeth, feels loved and is happy about the tenderness he experiences from Rita. Gert even toyed with the idea of getting a divorce. When he and his lawyer Dr. Zöller talks about it, he has serious concerns and warns that Rita is primarily aiming for the position at his side and his money. He suggests Gert to put Rita to the test, and in fact the young lady fails all along the line. Gert's friend says nothing to Elisabeth about how serious Gert was with this young girl: professional secrecy.
Elisabeth, however, is a clever woman and has noticed very well that her husband has moved further and further away from her and in this difficult time for her she has recognized that it is love that connects her with Gert. A realization that allows her to approach her husband in a new way. But she keeps her secret to herself. She must not take Gert's daughter and her daughter's father, just to calm her conscience. But now she can live with the situation without quarreling with fate.
production
Production notes
The film was shot between June 20 and August 6, 1955 in Hildesheim , in the Söder Castle near Hildesheim and in the CCC Studios in Berlin-Spandau . It is a CCC color film from Gloria in Eastmancolor. The buildings were designed by Rolf Zehetbauer , while Erwin Schänzle provided the sound . The first distribution took place through Gloria-Filmverleih GmbH (Munich).
Dispute over the title
When Curd Jürgens found out behind closed doors during the shooting of this film that the film should actually be called a linden tree in front of my father's house and then during the shooting in Hildesheim the rumor surfaced that the linden tree had been felled, but the strip for it now O you My silent valley was to be called, Jürgens was incredibly angry. Producer “Atze” Artur Brauner remembered the emerging problems not without malice and irony: “Jürgens asks whether someone has bathed me too hot. I deny Then he starts screaming. I have hardly ever seen someone so angry. He threatens with whole volleys of injunctions. We write 'to dear Gloria' and ask whether a children's choir should be added to the title. But in Munich you don't find that strange at all. Then the actors want to strike. Curd Jürgens, visibly appalled by the new title, explains categorically soon afterwards: 'If the film is called that, I won't keep shooting a day. Confidentiality is stated in my contract . ' In the studio, the film was only called O du mein Schweigetal anyway . In the meantime, the battle raged in the Gloria rental shop between You, my quiet valley and In front of my father's house there is a linden tree , with the new title, heir of the fathers , temporarily appearing. But Curd Jürgens did not want to accept that either. He insisted on his contract and was assured that it would be kept. Then he read in the newspapers that the film was now called You, my silent valley . Curd Juergens complained. The matter came before the 17th civil chamber of the Berlin regional court, and Curd Jürgens became something of a hero in the fight against kitsch. At the trial, the court came to the conclusion that there was no reason to rename the confidentiality film, especially since the script did not contain any references to a valley, let alone a quiet valley, not even a loud valley or a quiet mountain . Curd Jürgens had won, but Atze Brauner went to the second instance. So what happened? What mostly happened in film circles at that time: The gentlemen agreed and the matter ended like Hornberger Schießen . In other words, although Curd Jürgens had won his lawsuit, the film ran under the Tal title. ”For Atze Brauner, the three-year process was positive because it was a huge propaganda that he couldn't have paid for .
reception
Publication, success
The film drama had the working title inheritance of the fathers and secret of a marriage resp. Confidentiality . The film was shown in Austria under the title Confidentiality . The film was released on May 2, 1960 in Denmark under the title Hendes store længsel , the year before in the USA.
The premiere of the film in the Federal Republic of Germany took place on September 23, 1955 in Hildesheim in the Roxy cinema.
At the premiere in Stuttgart, the entire team, including the actors, stayed away from the premiere, "because they didn't want to be there when a bankruptcy started." But confidentiality / You my quiet valley did not go bankrupt. On the contrary. The film grossed two million marks, the Gloria triumphed and its boss Ilse Kubaschewski (known for her “good nose”) could say “See!”.
criticism
The lexicon of international film found:
“For twenty years the wife of a Rittmeister hides from her husband that her daughter has someone else for her father - that romantic pianist who will one day come back into her life. Melodramatic marriage film. (TV title: Secret of a marriage ). "
Kino.de stated : “A noble landlord, an elegant keyboard virtuoso and a loyal wife ... a melodrama entirely to the taste of the Federal Republican audience, ideally filled with the 'Norman wardrobe' Curd Jürgens, the later successful director Bernhard Wicki and Winnie Markus as lady of the heart between the chairs. The actor and director Leonard Steckel (Palast-Hotel) routinely stagesthis marital crisis, which is based on the story ofthe screenwriter Jacques Companéez's duty of confidentiality . "
The criticism of Cinema was not very positive : "Schmonzette with considerable distance from life."
The perception of ARD, on the other hand, was different: “ You my quiet valley , a romantic melodrama by Leonard Steckel, brought three of the great German stars of his time to the screen together with Curd Jürgens, Winnie Markus and Bernhard Wicki. Leonard Steckel was one of the most popular supporting actors (Die Verliebte Firma) in German cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s. In addition to his numerous film appearances, however, over the decades he has directed a handful of his own movies - of which You My Silent Valley is probably the most beautiful. The romantic melodrama unites three legendary German stars with Curd Jürgens, Winnie Markus and Bernhard Wicki in a triangular story that has a moral, but is never moralizing. "
However, the encyclopedia of films on television confirmed the film: “Marriage as a roller coaster: the chariot of love and suffering races up and down. The long breath of the film haunted a couple over thirty years of their lives and can even captivate, not least because of the excellent cast. "
Web links
- You my quiet valley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- You my silent valley at filmportal.de (with film poster, script excerpts, etc.)
- You, my quiet valley Fig.Illustrated film stage No. 2949 (Cover picture: Winnie Markus, Curd Jürgens)
- You my silent valley at CCC-Film
- The sacred goods in the process of changing the title of confidentiality / You my still valley In: Der Spiegel No. 42 of October 12, 1955.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b . Gregor Ball: Curd Jürgens His Films - His Life , Heyne Film Library No. 32/45, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1982, pp. 112, 114–116
- ↑ You my silent valley. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Du mein stilles Tal: Well cast, triangular melodrama produced by Artur Brauner, review at kino.de
- ↑ You my silent valley (1955) Class occupied but terrible soapy Ehemelodram from the Adenauer era criticism at Cinema .com
- ↑ You my silent valley program ARD.de
- ↑ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon Films on TV - 5000 feature films, TV video cable, in collaboration with the magazine Gong , Rasch and Roehring Verlag, Hamburg, 1988, p. 130