A girl from Flanders
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A girl from Flanders |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Käutner |
| script |
Heinz Pauck Helmut Käutner |
| production | Herbert Uhlich |
| music | Bernhard Eichhorn |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Anneliese Schönnenbeck |
| occupation | |
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A Girl from Flanders is a German feature film from 1956. The film was based on the novella Engele von Loewen by Carl Zuckmayer .
action
The film is set in Flanders during the First World War . The German officer Alexander Haller falls in love with the Flemish girl Angeline, the angel from Loewen . Haller cannot live out his love for the girl, however. He was seriously injured at the front and did not see the girl again until 1917. Only now can he describe his feelings to her and confess his love. But happiness is short-lived. Angeline is suspected of sabotage and is arrested by the Germans. She was first held in a prison camp and then transferred to a brothel . Here she meets Alexander again shortly before the end of the war. This is now accused of degrading military strength because he had helped an enemy, wounded soldier. But the end of the war is near and so is the hope of being saved.
background
The film was shot from October 17 to December 16, 1955 in the Berlin-Tempelhof film studio and in the city of Damme in Flanders. Helmut Käutner can be seen in a cameo as a guard. The first performance took place on February 16, 1956 in Hanover in the Theater am Kröpcke .
Awards
- June 1956: Silver film tape for Friedl Behn-Grund's camera work.
- February 1957: Award of the German film critic for the direction to Helmut Käutner and for Fritz Tillmann as best supporting actor
Reviews
“Effective in terms of images and sometimes well played, but noticeably improbable and vacillating between romantic melodrama and pacifist appeal. The view of historical and political connections is also clouded by sentimentality. "
“Overall impression: effective and sometimes well played, but noticeably unlikely. Considerable objections from a moral point of view. "
“With a high degree of justice, Helmut Käutner brought Zuckmayer's German-Belgian love story about the“ Engele von Loewen ”onto the screen. But he used well-known metaphors. "
"The love story between a German lieutenant and a Belgian girl in World War I is both artistically and intentionally meaningful."
literature
- Carl Zuckmayer : Engele von Loewen and other stories . 11-13 Thousand. Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-22536-1 , 157 pp.
Web links
- The Girl from Flanders in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A girl from Flanders at filmportal.de
- A girl from Flanders ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at deutscher-tonfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film tape in silver according to the German Film Academy ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and IMDb, according to Filmportal.de and CineGraph it was the film tape in gold.
- ↑ A girl from Flanders. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 275
- ↑ New and worth seeing . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1956
- ↑ Munich, Review No. 108/1956
