A life for Thu
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A life for Thu |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Gustav Ucicky |
| script | Kurt Heuser |
| production | Capitol-Film, Berlin |
| music | Norbert Schultze |
| camera | Ekkehard Kyrath |
| cut | Carl Otto Bartning |
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A Life for Do is a 1953 German melodrama by Gustav Ucicky with Hans Söhnker in the male lead and the film debutante Paola Loew in the title role. The film is based on the novel " Daddy and Do " by Robert Pilchowski .
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Little Do grows up on a farm in southern Africa. Planter Thomas, a seasoned middle-aged man, is the owner of the property and is idolized by Do. Too bad that Thomas is the girl's father - at least that's how she was always told. Dos exuberant, enthusiastic teenage love reaches proportions - including fits of jealousy - that Thomas thinks is rather bad, so he sends the girl to relatives in Switzerland for her further education. Here Do should first finish her school and gain distance. Only after ten years do they see each other again. Thomas has married in the meantime, and the child Do has become an attractive young lady.
Do learns from Thomas' wife Vivian that Thomas is not her biological father, but rather her foster father. Now all emotional dams are finally breaking, because the spatial and temporal distance did not cause Do to fall out of love with Thomas again. Even the planter no longer has the willpower to seek the distance to Do and gives himself over to his feelings towards her. Instinctively, however, he thinks it is better to leave and therefore returns to his farm in South Africa. One day, Do finds out indirectly that her sugar daddy has divorced, so that she finally has a free run. With the next ship, Do travels to Africa after her beloved Thomas, only to sink into his arms.
Production notes
A Life for Thu was created on September 21, 1953. In addition to the Atelier Berlin-Tempelhof on Lake Lucerne , in Lucerne and Zurich as well as in the South African Union . The film had its world premiere on January 14, 1954 in the Düsseldorf Europa-Kino.
Dietrich von Theobald was production manager, Georg Mohr was production manager . The film structures executed by Walter Kutz were designed by Emil Hasler , Hermann Fritzsching provided the sound. Manon Hahn was responsible for the costumes, Manfred Ensinger assisted chief cameraman Ekkehard Kyrath . Bruno Balz wrote the lyrics for Norbert Schultze's music.
Reviews
In its edition of February 3, 1954, Der Spiegel found: “Uncomfortable father-daughter eroticism, based on the" Constanze "novel of the same name, wrapped miserably in expensive and beautiful outdoor shots (Switzerland and Africa) by director Gustav Ucicky. Even as a fat eleven-year-old (Heidi Becker), but especially as a full-grown girl, Do (robust and ladylike: Paola Loew) loves her "daddy", the German planter in Africa (Hans Söhnker), with a hectic glow that banishes other men, even though she is only shortly before the happy solution finds out that she is only this daddy's foster daughter. "
"Conventional, sentimental love drama - professionally done, but a bit lengthy."
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 439
- ↑ Critique in Der Spiegel 6/1954
- ↑ A Life for Thu in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on December 24, 2018
Web links
- A life of Do in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A life for Thu at filmportal.de