A gust of wind
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A gust of wind |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1942 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Walter Felsenstein |
| script |
Roland Schacht Walter Felsenstein based on the comedy Un colpo di vento by Giovacchino Forzano |
| production | Production group Fred Lyssa for Tobis-Filmkunst, Berlin |
| music | Friedrich Schröder |
| camera | Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler |
| cut | Ilse Voigt |
| occupation | |
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A Gust of Wind is a German feature film from 1941 . Directed by Walter Felsenstein , Paul Kemp was Emanuele Rigattieri, one of Kemp's very rare film leading roles, “the pedant who causes strife in a tenement house”.
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“I don't do any favors and don't expect any” - that's the motto of the art and antiques dealer Rigattieri, with whom he quickly made himself unpopular with his roommates in the apartment building. The day when everything changes in his life and that of his neighbors begins when a gust of wind slams his front door one Sunday when he is standing on the stairwell to sweep some sand from his apartment. Now he's standing in the hall, wearing nothing but a nightgown. None of his roommates is particularly inclined to bail him out, as he is notorious as a complainer and complainer and on principle not helpful. When he then also wants to ask the neighbor girl to get a locksmith to open the door and promise her some money for it, the little girl's mother suspects nothing good: Namely, that Rigattieri, only dressed in a nightgown, is also a moron.
The ideal opportunity to really get back at the old curmudgeon. Before Rigattieri can really defend himself, the tenants turn against him in unison, and the suspicion of wanting to behave immorally with the child is in the air. A trial took place and Emanuele Rigattieri was sentenced to 15 months in prison because he was unable to prove his innocence. After filing an objection, he will at least be released until the appeals court makes a final decision. But now he doesn't dare to go home anymore, since he has seen all of his fellow tenants in the court hearing and knows that a gauntlet would await him at home. And so he goes to his antique shop. Heavy in thought and emotionally quite on the ground, he sees a young girl at the Ponte Vecchio who wants to throw herself into the Arno with suicidal intent .
Emanuele saves this woman, Angelina, from her act of desperation, triggered by a dishonorable seducer who has left her, and takes her home with him. He learns that the young man is said to be the son of Appellate Judge Campini. Rigattieri immediately senses the chance to benefit from this knowledge for his upcoming negotiation. But obviously Angelina's ex-boyfriend is not only a character pig, but also a deceiver: Campini's son is only eleven years old and therefore not identical to Angelina's ex-girlfriend. In view of this lousy behavior towards the young girl, Emanuele shows his heart for the first time and offers Angelina accommodation in his apartment. When she faints and Emanuele doesn't know what to do, he even jumps over his shadow and asks the neighbor for help. Soon the whole house knew of the good side of curmudgeon and the tenants decided to go to court with a positive petition. Rigattieri turns out to be a repentant sinner in the appeal hearing and is acquitted. Only now does he realize how good a friendly person like Angelina is at his side.
Production notes
A gust of wind , based on a template by the Italian Giovacchino Forzano , was the first film director of the theater man Walter Felsenstein. For this debut, he had chosen a completely non-political piece that also emphasized the political axis Berlin-Rome during the Second World War. “This amiable and skeptical comedy of the change from a curmudgeon to a philanthropist”, as Bogusław Drewniak wrote, was premiered in Germany on June 12, 1940 in the Dresden State Theater. Erich Ponto played the Kemp role there.
Tobis acquired the film rights (for ten years) for 17,500 RM . Filming began on September 15, 1941 (exterior shots in the vicinity of Florence ) and October 3, 1941 (studio shots ). The premiere took place on July 9, 1942 in three Berlin cinemas. The costs amounted to a moderate 801,000 RM, a sum that was quickly recovered: in April 1943, the income was 1,858,000 RM.
For 15-year-old Sonja Ziemann , a top film star in the 1950s, the role of Gina was her first film appearance. Rudi Schuricke sang the title Let the mandolins sound in this film .
The film structures were made by Otto Erdmann and Franz F. Fürst , production group leader Fred Lyssa also took over the production management. The lyrics are from the pen of Hans Fritz Beckmann . The production was given the title "popularly valuable".
A gust of wind was filmed in France as early as 1935 under the title Coup de vent and the following year in Italy under the original title Un colpo di vento .
Reviews
Bogusław Drewniak wrote in 'Der deutsche Film 1938–1945' disappointed: “A somewhat incoherent and boring film emerged from the good cinematic material. Walter Felsenstein had not succeeded in bringing together the three style units: Italian comedy, German staging and character study by Paul Kemp. Only the positive educational accents are quite strong in the film ”.
Horst Knietzsch came to a completely different conclusion: “In this time of great official art screaming, even a film with a small humanly clean plot, apart from the fascist ideology, could look like an oasis. Walter Felsenstein created a gust of wind (1942), a cheerful, contemplative comedy about a bachelor (Paul Kemp) who has to defend himself against the pitfalls of life and the intrusive nosy neighbors. "
The online version of the Lexicon of International Films called the film a "good-natured character comedy."
See also
Web links
- A gust of wind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A gust of wind at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 353.
- ↑ cf. Bogusław Drewniak's 'The German Film 1938–1945', A Complete Overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 568
- ↑ cf. Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films 12, born 1942/43. P. 108 (051.42), Berlin 2001
- ↑ Der deutsche Film 1938-1945 , p. 568.
- ^ Horst Knietzsch: Film history in pictures . East Berlin 1971, p. 171.
- ^ A gust of wind in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on October 10, 2013