A heart needs love

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Movie
Original title A heart needs love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harald Röbbeling
script Harald Röbbeling
production Charlotte Röbbeling
music Rudolf Perak
camera Erichhans Foerster
cut Charlotte Röbbeling
occupation

A heart needs love is a German melodrama from 1959 by Harald Röbbeling , whose last production this was, with Rudolf Prack , Winnie Markus , Paul Esser and Eva Kotthaus in the leading roles.

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The marriage of Mischa Wilden's parents failed. When the two separate, the mother no longer wants to know anything about her son (“I can't use him”) and the father, who has already got himself a much younger lover who doesn't like the children, shows no interest in that eleven year old boy. He then pushes Mischa into the care of Dr. Rentz off. His upbringing motto for boys suggests the worst: “Loyal, tough and tough. That is man's way ”. Misha is deadly unhappy there, and so one day Misha is passed on to the Klinge youth village , which has completely different educational methods. Here you don't try to break the children, you meet them with understanding and affection. Nevertheless, Mischa finds it difficult to adapt to this new and completely unfamiliar world. The pastor of the youth village knows very well how to deal with the very different residents. In addition to Mischa, he is particularly concerned about Peter, a young man without parents from Yugoslavia who is very aggressive and unruly and likes to pull out a jackknife from time to time.

Mischa befriends a little girl named Anita, who was also brought to the youth village by her father. The widower Thomas Reimer is very loving to his daughter, but is very tense at work and travels from city to city as a sought-after concert musician. Driven by longing for his father, Misha leaves one night. Another boy named Hans induces him to steal the youth village's money with him from a locked desk drawer of the administration. Both of them set off towards Heidelberg that same night.

Little Anita is delighted that her father should pick her up today. Anita is all the more disappointed that he cannot take her with him after all, because he has to fly to his next concert right away. Meanwhile, Mischa took the train to Lindau to visit his father in Rorschach, Switzerland. His father is again anything but enthusiastic when his son suddenly shows up, especially since his young lover declares coldly that she will leave if the boy stays. Misha's father promptly puts his son back on the next train. Since his father does not want him, the boy shoots him to go to Erfurt in the then not completely sealed off GDR, where his mother lives. At the border of the zone, he is picked up by a German border guard and taken to the border inspector Wehrich. He contacts Mischa's mother in Erfurt and learns from her that she is not interested in her son. Mischa returns to the youth village, and the pastor, Elisabeth, instructs the pastor to take special care of Mischa.

Mr Reimer, who is currently visiting Stockholm, meanwhile cannot get the pastor's words out of his head during his last visit to Klinge. The man of God had said that a child needs its parents, and so Reimer asks his secretary Helene, who is familiar to him and who also takes care of all of Reimer's private matters, whether she would like to marry him. Helene, who has already taken care of a present for Anita, who is celebrating her birthday in two days, accepts the request. In view of the bad experiences Misha had with his loveless parents, educator Elisabeth now takes special care of him. When Mischa hears that Anita's father and Helene want to get married, he is particularly sad because he is shown what is unfortunately not granted to him: namely, what it's like to have real parents. Then he runs into the neighboring forest at dusk. Immediately they call up the children and carers from the youth village and look for him. He is found huddled on the forest floor and brought back to camp.

Elisabeth wakes up praying by his sick bed. The boy struggled to survive his hypothermia. In the meantime, the hot-headed Yugoslav Peter and another roommate have a serious physical attack, in which Peter stabs his opponent Robert. After a condemned sermon by the pastor, Peter, who has long since lost faith in God due to his difficult life so far, finds his way back to the church and prays for Robert's life. In fact, this one survives. His parents have arrived at Mischa's sick bed. Mischa can no longer access them and does not want to speak to them either. His mother turns away, annoyed, and leaves. At least the father would like to take the boy with him now. Then the pastor speaks a word of power and tells Mr. Wilden about his previous behavior towards his son Mischa. Mischa stays in the camp and finds a mother substitute in Elisabeth. At the end the youth campers celebrate a summer party with a burning pyre.

Production notes

One heart stays alone was created in 1959 in Seckach (Klinge youth village), Heidelberg and on Lake Constance. Producer Charlotte Röbbeling also took over the production management. Walter Rühland set the tone.

criticism

In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Wooden in the design and therefore without persuasive power, the film is at best interesting because of its documentary background."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A heart needs love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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