A girl goes ashore

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Movie
Original title A girl goes ashore
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1938
length 86, 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Werner Hochbaum
script Eva Leidmann
Werner Hochbaum
production Erich von Neusser
music Theo Mackeben
camera Werner Krien
cut Else Baum
occupation

A girl goes ashore is a German fiction film in the form of a woman's novel from 1938. Elisabeth Flickenschildt plays the title role under the direction of Werner Hochbaum , while Herbert AE Böhme took on the male lead at her side . The future folk actress Heidi Kabel made her debut in front of a film camera at the side of her husband Hans Mahler from the Niederdeutsche Bühne, the later Ohnsorg Theater . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Eva Leidmann , published in 1935 .

action

Erna Quandt is the daughter of a Hamburg coastal shipper. For many years she has been going out to sea with her father and brother Otto on the small cargo ship "Katharina Quandt", the name of her mother, who died young . Since her brother Otto wants to marry his young fiancée Inge and two women on board are supposed to bring bad luck according to the old sailor superstition, Erna, according to the film's title, is now going ashore temporarily. From now on Inge will accompany Erna's father and brother on the sailing trips. In the meantime, Erna is waiting at home for her fiancé Hein Groterjahn, who is also a "sea dog". They both want to get married, and Erna intends to go on the high seas by his side from now on. But the sea swallowed him, because a violent storm raged there the previous night. Now completely on her own, a world threatens to collapse for Erna.

Marked by deep grief, Erna initially finds shelter with her uncle, Captain Lüders, and his wife, Aunt Mariechen. But Erna is used to being independent and doesn't want to be endured too much by her close relatives. And so one day she took a job with Frau Sthümer, the distinguished wife of a wealthy shipowner residing in the Hamburg suburb of Blankenese . Blessed with high moral values, Erna is very displeased that her boss is dealing with the slick lawyer Dr. Ried lets in excessively while her unsuspecting husband goes about his time-consuming work in the office. The pragmatic Erna takes Dr. Ried verbally to his chest and finally brings the drifting apart Sthümer couple back together.

In a matter close to her heart, Erna Quandt shows far less fortune. She meets a young man named Jonny Hasenbein who pretends to work as a photographer and gradually develops feelings for him. But Hasenbein is an outright hallodri and turns out to be a marriage fraud . At least Jonny fails to deprive Erna of her few savings when he realizes what a pure heart Erna is. However, the police arrested him on another case. Shaken again by this bitter experience, the brave fighter Erna does not give up. One day she finally got lucky: Erna met a former friend, the widowed Friedrich Semmler, again. He has three children who unceremoniously bring Erna into the house so that she can have a new mother and her father can finally find a new wife.

Production notes

A girl goes ashore was created on May 20, 1938 and was submitted to censorship on September 16, 1938. The shooting locations were Hamburg (exterior shots) and Babelsberg (studios in the UFA city). The world premiere took place on September 30, 1938 in two Hamburg cinemas. The Berlin premiere was on October 13, 1938, also in two cinemas. The strip was broadcast for the first time on German television on May 5, 1986 on DFF 1.

The film cost only around 632,000 RM and was very well received by Adolf Hitler after a private screening on Obersalzberg .

Producer Erich von Neusser also took over the production management, Herbert Junghanns was the production manager . The film structures were created by Willy Schiller and Carl Haacker , and Bruno Suckau provided the sound . Igor Oberberg assisted head cameraman Werner Krien .

The only music track was: "I'm standing with you at the gate of the world". Composer Theo Mackeben also took over the musical direction.

Writer and screenwriter Eva Leidmann delivered her last screenplay to A girl goes ashore , she died three months before shooting began. The calendar and motto were taken from the literary legacy of Gorch Fock .

reception

The lexicon of international films saw the film as a "psychologically well thought-out, but emotionally staged female fate in the everyday milieu of the Hamburg port, which lives primarily from the charisma of the leading actress cast against her type."

Ulrich Kurowski wrote in CineGraph : "In A GIRL GOES TO LAND ... Hochbaum almost violently lets his people end up in isolated, dead idylls to which the present can no longer find access"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German sound films, 9th year 1938. 064.38, p 125, Berlin 1998
  2. ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 633 f.
  3. ↑ A girl goes ashore. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 9, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Ulrich Kurowski: Werner Hochbaum . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film . Edited by Hans-Michael Bock. Munich: edition text + kritik. ISBN 978-3-86916-222-5 , Delivery 2, E 1.

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