A heart is wrong
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| Original title | A heart is wrong |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | Cinema: 103 minutes DVD: 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Rudolf Jugert |
| script | Erna Fentsch |
| production | Georg Witt -Film GmbH, Munich |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Helmut Ashley |
| cut | Claus from Boro |
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A heart plays wrong is a German melodrama from 1953 , which was directed by Rudolf Jugert . The black and white film with OW Fischer and Ruth Leuwerik in the leading roles is based on a serial novel by Hans Ulrich Horster , published in 1950 in the TV magazine Hörzu .
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Peter van Booven, an adventurer and bon vivant, has constant money problems and debts with criminals. After an affair with Gerda Peters, an employee of the hat maker Kersten, she becomes pregnant. Peter is now trying to find someone who can "get rid of" Gerda 's child. After unsuccessful inquiries, he was turned away at the hospital by Professor Linz, who was an old friend of his late father. There he happened to overhear the professor talking about his patient and niece Sibylla Zander, who is terminally ill due to a malignant tumor on the spinal cord and who will soon die. Peter already knows Sibylla from school, where he used to call her "old box" because she wore glasses as a child. He contacts her and visits her in the hospital. The professor is against it, because he knows that Peter is only after the inheritance of the wealthy woman. However, since the professor does not want to reveal to his niece that she probably only has six to nine months to live, he can hardly convince Sibylla that Boven is not the right one for her. However, the charmer Peter quickly wins Sibylla's heart and she blossoms in her new love. Soon they get engaged. The pregnant Gerda meanwhile wants to take her own life and jumps into a river. She can be saved at the last minute, but in the process she loses her unborn child. Gerda now meets her boss, the hat maker Kersten, who had already stood by her before, wanted to marry her and also want to take on the strange child.
When Peter and Sibylla are married and on their honeymoon, Booven falls more and more in love with his wife, which he hadn't really planned. He now feels that he no longer wants to live without Sibylla, who was the only one who believed in him and trusted him. To save Sibylla - who still knows nothing of her fate - he secretly transfers large sums of money from her company abroad to the specialist Dr. Lundi. However, it is too late for a cure. When Director Hersbach discovered the cleverly disguised shifts in money in the company and informed Sibylla, she finally found out how things were going. Sibylla dies, but thanks to his wife Peter has turned into a good person.
background
- For Ruth Leuwerik (who appeared in this film for the first time together with OW Fischer) the role was the breakthrough to the cinema star of the 1950s.
- The film was made in the studios of Bavaria Filmkunst GmbH . The outdoor shots were taken in Königswinter , Munich and Dubrovnik .
Reviews
"A psychologically superficial, implausibly constructed melodrama, shaped by the rather antiquated way of portraying the actors."
"A mediocre film, conventional and wrong in the material, made worse than the proven skills of the director would have allowed."
Awards
The film took part in the competition at the Berlinale in 1953 , but did not receive any awards. It was also shown at the 1st Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 1954 .
Web links
- A heart plays out of tune in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A heart is wrong in the lexicon of international film
- One heart is playing wrong at filmportal.de