A heart beats for Erika

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Movie
Original title A heart beats for Erika
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Harald Reinl
script Walter Forster
Maria von der Osten-Sacken
production Maria von der Osten-Sacken
music Lothar Bruhne
camera Erich Claunigk
cut Johanna Meisel
occupation

A heart beats for Erika is a German melodrama by Harald Reinl from 1956.

action

The A. Hartwig construction company, which has been managed by Anna Hartwig for 15 years, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. On this occasion, the company has been building a prestige object for some time, the anniversary building with several wings . When Anna announces that a bank with several safes has rented a wing of the building, her brother Karl becomes restless. On paper, the building was built with high quality concrete. However, Karl, who is in debt, had inferior concrete built in order to be able to use the remaining money to settle part of his debts. He wanted to have a beauty parlor move into the wing that could do without heavy equipment.

Besides her work, Anna has new plans. She is unmarried but wants to have a child. In the orphanage, she chooses the young Erika, who only moves in with a heavy heart, as she has to leave her three brothers behind at the home. Karl is against Erika, who, if adopted, would also become Anna's co-heir. Although Anna tries hard to be a good surrogate mother to Erika, Erika always longs for her brothers, from whom she has never been separated in her life. On the advice of the home, however, Anna does not allow the brothers to visit Erika because, given the luxury in Anna's house, they could no longer appreciate the home. Erika's first attempt to introduce Anna to her brothers fails because the brothers cause chaos with their willingness to help. The brothers therefore smuggle themselves into Anna's house disguised as girls while she is out and about. They play football with Erika, but are thrown out of the villa by Karl. Erika decides to follow her brothers back to the home.

Meanwhile, Karl got deeper and deeper into trouble. In order to pay off his debts, he gives an excellent report for bad building site. Architect Franz Wagner had previously looked at this building site, who works better than Karl and can therefore usually enforce his designs against Anna. Franz had recognized that the reason for buildings is unusable and rejected a positive opinion against bribery. Now he accuses Karl of being bought. Karl then enforces the dismissal of Franz. At the same time, he tries to prevent a disaster with the anniversary building. The safes for the side wing are delivered, however, and cracks soon appear in the ceiling, although the floor is not yet fully loaded.

When Anna returns to the villa, she learns that Erika has gone to the home. At the home, she is told that Erika has gone to the anniversary building to give Anna back a table bell that her brothers had accidentally put in their pockets. Erika suspects Anna in the building. Only Karl stays here, who experiences how the cracks in the ceiling on which the safes are standing get bigger and bigger. Erika is walking under the ceiling when the floor collapses. Karl can save her at the last second and is injured himself. The accident puts Karl back on the right track. He realizes his mistakes and accepts Erika as a new member of the family. Since Anna knows that Erika cannot be without her brothers, she finally takes in all four children.

production

A heart for Erika was filmed from November 15 to December 12, 1955 in Berlin and the CCC Ateliers Berlin-Spandau. The working titles of the film were Ein Herz sucht Glück and Happy Hearts . The costumes created Brigitte Scholz , the Filmbauten come from Willi Herrmann and Heinrich Weidemann . The film premiered on February 23, 1956 in the Kassel Capitol and was shown in German cinemas on March 9, 1956.

criticism

A heart beats for Erika for the film service was “a stirring piece that does everything to move emotionally. Undemanding, superficial, theatrical as well as poor in terms of content ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A heart beats for Erika. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used