A man wants to go to Germany
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A man wants to go to Germany |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Wegener |
| script |
Philipp Lothar Mayring Fred Andreas based on his novel of the same name |
| production |
Bruno Duday for UFA , Berlin |
| music | Hans-Otto Borgmann |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| cut | Milo Harbich |
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A man wants to go to Germany is a German feature film of 1934. Directed by Paul Wegener play Karl Ludwig Diehl and Brigitte Horney the leading roles.
action
South America in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War .
Three engineers - the German Hagen, the British Corner and the French Duval - are at the service of the Venezuelan Ortiguez works. When the news of the outbreak of war in Europe, the three men, who are now enemies, say goodbye to take up military service at home . Hagen's brawny, solid buddy Brack, a foreman, also wants to go back to Germany with him. Before that can happen, however, he gets into a street fight because he has to overhear that Germany is being held responsible for the outbreak of hostilities. When Hagen tries to beat his buddy out, he is stabbed with a knife that was aimed at Brack. Seriously injured, the German engineer is brought to the property of Señora Ortiguez, the company's boss. She devotedly nurses the stranger back up; During this time, the two begin to fall in love. Although the Venezuelan does not want to let him go, Hagen, who had not served, is drawn home to Germany: the fatherland calls.
Recovered, Hagen and Brack try to get back to Germany with a ship sailing under a neutral flag. However, an English patrol boat unlawfully picks up the ship and collects the two enemies of Britain without further ado. In Jamaica Hagen and brackish be interned . Life behind barbed wire is, albeit safe, hard and full of privation. The convinced patriots absolutely want to go home to Germany, and so they make - successfully - an attempt to escape to Cuba . Manuela Ortiguez learns about Hagen's hussar piece on board her yacht and immediately sails to Cuba. Reunited, both spend a few carefree days. Nevertheless, she cannot prevent him - not even with an offer to become her chief engineer - from his firm will to return home. Without saying goodbye, Hagen secretly separates from her, and he and Brack board a Danish ship that has Plymouth as its port of destination .
Manuela, however, learns of his mad idea and travels after him with her yacht to Plymouth. Your last attempt to prevent Hagen from returning to Germany has now finally failed. The Venezuelan returns sadly to her yacht. Manuela's confidante Pedra cannot see her friend's dejection and then reveals Hagen to the English port police. As luck would have it, Manuela's former engineer Corner is now Plymouth Harbor Commander. She asks him to help both of Hagen's friends, but Corner, not entirely unlike Hagen, puts a love of fatherland and a patriotic sense of duty above all else. Manuela gradually begins to understand Hagen's attitude, takes him onto her yacht and tries to reach German waters, pursued by English warships. When her ship passed the German vanguard on the high seas, she raised the German flag in solidarity with her great love .
Production notes
The shooting took place from the beginning of April (outdoor shots) to the end of May (studio shots) 1934. The outdoor locations were on Tenerife ( La Orotava , Puerto de la Cruz , Santa Cruz de Tenerife and 2,400 meters above sea level at Pico del Teide ) as well as in Hamburg and Berlin . The premiere took place on July 26, 1934 in the UFA-Palast am Zoo .
For his second sound film direction, Paul Wegener once again brought in Karl Ludwig Diehl for the lead role, with whom he had already made his sound film debut as a director (for The Girlfriend of a Great Man ) the year before (1933) . With nine actors on board the Hapag steamer 'Osorio', Wegener traveled to Tenerife in May 1934 and used the time of the crossing to film the ship scenes directly on board. In the port of Vigo , the film crew was even able to seize an English war pinasse that had been left behind and was also used in the film.
The production line had Erich Holder . The Filmbauten come from Werner Schlichting , the tone got Walter Tjaden . Werner Krien and Igor Oberberg assisted chief cameraman Fritz Arno Wagner , while Erich Kobler assisted director Wegener. Heinz Ritter worked as a still photographer on this production. Willy Birgel made his film debut in A man wants to Germany , Siegfried Schürenberg played his first leading role here.
A man wants to go to Germany was added to the list of German films banned under Allied military censorship in 1945 . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was neither shown again in the cinema nor shown on television.
Reviews
The film received very different ratings, depending on the time and political position.
In Austria, where the film was released in November 1934 under the title A man wants to go home , the Austrian Film Newspaper on November 17, 1934, read on page 4: “Paul Wegener […] put the film in a frame lush, tropical landscape. The rapid pace of the action, the wonderful landscape and lake shots, the impressive photography characterize this Ufa film, which has a number of good actors contributing to its success. "
Oskar Kalbus ' Vom becoming German film art wrote in the early phase of the Third Reich: “The film embraces a genuinely German fate that is wonderfully completed here. It is a film of our new times, led with its heroic spirit and permeated by the deep, genuine love of the country that has been reawakened to all Germans today, and which has only blazed with the same might during the last decades at the beginning of the world war. And the film also takes place during this time. [...] Karl Ludwig Diehl as a German engineer and Hermann Speelmans represent two splendid Germans abroad with ardent patriotism who, despite all the privations, know only one thing: home to Germany to fight when their fatherland is in need. "
In the November 16, 1934 issue of the Neue Freie Presse the following can be read: “Magnificent landscape photos provide the impressive setting. The glorification of patriotism and male courage that this film means could of course be transposed to all nationalities on earth. And it is precisely in this beautiful general humanity of the topic that, in addition to the purely cinematic qualities, the explanation for the success of this work is to be sought. Of the actors, Carl Ludwig Diehl, the bearer of the main role, deserves to be mentioned in the first place. His male-dominated game is of interest, and when he passionately gets going at one point in the scene with the consul in Cuba, this rare outbreak is all the more intense. "
The lexicon of the international film stated: “The film testifies to the efforts of the UFA, which are supported by the new 'patron' Dr. Goebbels' demanded 'new line in German filmmaking': Every word is tendency, paper, phrase, pathos. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Wegener's statements in Oskar Kalbus: Vom becoming German film art. Part 2: The sound film. Berlin 1935, p. 71.
- ↑ "A man wants to go home". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , November 17, 1934, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ On the Development of German Film Art, p. 71.
- ↑ "A man wants to go home". In: Neue Freie Presse , November 16, 1934, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 5, S. 2475. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
Web links
- A man wants to go to Germany in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A man wants to go to Germany at filmportal.de