A woman for three days
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A woman for three days |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 81 minutes |
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| Director | Fritz Kirchhoff |
| script | Thea of Harbou |
| production | UFA , Max Pfeiffer manufacturing group |
| music | Edmund Nick |
| camera |
Willy-Peter Bloch , Werner Krien |
| cut | Hilde Tegener |
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A woman for three days is a German feature film (love film) directed by Fritz Kirchhoff in 1943 for UFA . The black-and-white film, whose theatrical release was supervised by Deutsche Filmvertriebs GmbH, premiered in 1944. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Elisabeth Gürt , published in 1942 .
action
The place of the action is initially Plomberg am Mondsee (Austria), the time a fictional present in which a Second World War does not seem to take place. Lisa, a young sports teacher from Berlin, was sick and on vacation for ten days to relax. On the train that is supposed to take her back to Berlin, she meets Hanns, a lovable young engineer from Hamburg, who unfortunately is a habitual heartbreaker and flutters from woman to woman like a butterfly from flower to flower. At the last moment before leaving, Lisa receives a farewell letter from Benno, her previous partner, which is probably the reason why Lisa got sick in the first place. Hanns is touched by the young woman and her dejection; he clings to Lisa's heels and begins to look after her lovingly and resolutely.
Hanns plans to spend three days in Berlin and then travel on to Hamburg. Lisa initially firmly rejects his suggestion to spend these three days together, but after arriving in Berlin she is ready to visit the zoo together. At first she finds Hanns intrusive; only gradually does she begin to like him. After he dropped her off at her apartment, she eventually regretted her no to his proposal for a temporary love affair. When he sends her expensive flowers and invites her to tea in a garden pub for the afternoon, she gladly agrees. However, the ex-boyfriend Benno also happens to be seen at the tea dance, which so sobers Lisa that she breaks off the rendezvous with Hanns. Benno, who would like to undo the separation, follows Lisa to her apartment, where he is rejected by her with clear words.
After visiting the zoo and before the tea dance, Hanns stayed in the apartment of his temporarily absent brother. Annemarie, his cousin, was there at the same time. Annemarie loves Hanns, but has no illusions that Filou will ever reciprocate her feelings. Hanns, who at this point has no idea that he will find out Lisa's phone number and invite her to tea, promises Annemarie to take her to a restaurant in the evening. Since Lisa then flees home from the tea dance and does not take him to her apartment either, Hanns has no hesitation in sticking to dinner with Annemarie. For Annemarie, who has seen through Hanns completely, but cannot shake off her infatuation, this evening brings a rollercoaster of emotions, especially since Hanns kisses her goodbye.
Afterwards - it is now late in the evening - Hans Lisa checks in in front of her apartment and spends the night with her. The next morning he leaves the house to get his suitcase: he wants to spend the three days with Lisa. In a pocket of his coat Lisa discovers several postcards that Hanns had addressed to various women the day before, but not sent. Lisa is beside herself with disappointment and pain, but bites her grief and from now on plays Hanns the fun-loving one who - like him - only wants a short love affair and is supposedly not interested in a bond. They spend the rest of the day and another night together in their apartment.
The next morning, Lisa suffers further misery: she discovers that the postcards have disappeared from her coat pocket and believes that Hanns sent them off. In fact, Hanns had put the cards in the trash the day before. In her pain, she writes him an indifference goodbye note and leaves the apartment to go to work. It's Monday morning. She expects not to see him again.
At lunchtime, Hanns picks Lisa up from school and confronts her, but only learns that she is not worried about the imminent farewell. Irritated, he decides not to stay in Berlin until the afternoon as planned, but to take the very next train to Hamburg. Lisa accompanies him to the train, continues to play the carefree and thus leaves the platform. When the train is already in motion, Hanns gets out again. He finds Lisa sitting on a bench. She cries. The lovers speak up, Hanns clears up the matter with the postcards and promises Lisa that he will stay with her.
Production and theatrical release
Screenwriter Thea von Harbou ( Metropolis , M ) was one of the greats in her field in Germany and stayed that way even after 1933 because she knew how to adapt to National Socialism. The book she adapted for the film was the first novel by the very young Austrian writer Elisabeth Gürt. The subject hit the nerve of the times because since 1942 most of the men fit for military service had been on the front lines. Although the focus of the film is on vacationing at the front , the explosive themes of war and food shortages are completely left out for three days in order to make it easier for cinema-goers to dream, as in many films from this period, including in Eine Frau .
Director Fritz Kirchhoff, although he has also worked on two propaganda films, specialized in entertainment films. A year earlier he had already worked with Carl Raddatz on the film June 5th . The 31-year-old Raddatz was very popular at the time, the audience knew him in the roles of dashing officers ( request concert , Stukas , Über alles in der Welt , June 5th ) and lovers ( Heimkehr , Immensee ). With his screen partner, the 21-year-old Hannelore Schroth, Raddatz was also privately connected until the divorce in early 1945. Schroth came from an important family of actors (parents: Heinrich Schroth , Käthe Haack , half-brother: Carl-Heinz Schroth ) and through films like Kitty and the World Conference , Friedrich Schiller - The Triumph of a Genius and Sophienlund as an actress, he was more enchanting and complex, but down-to-earth Girls well introduced. A woman for three days was their first film together with Raddatz; Later came Unter den Brücken (1944/1946) and Taxi-Kitty (1950).
The most complex character in the film, Hanns' cousin Annemarie, was played by the 31-year-old Ursula Herking, who by then had already had a long career as a comedian and character actress. Apart from her performances in Heimatland and Twelve Minutes after twelve (both 1939), the role of Annemarie was one of the greatest that Herking could play during the Second World War.
For cameraman Werner Krien , the shooting was the first since the big color film Münchhausen (1942/1943).
The shooting took place under war conditions from March 1st to July 1943 in Berlin, Berlin-Wannsee , Potsdam , in the Havellandschaften , Salzburg and Mondsee . Berlin had already been bombed many times by the British and American air forces in 1943.
The film was submitted to the film censors on March 9, 1944. Because of the subject he was banned from youth. The premiere took place in Berlin (BTL Potsdamer Straße) on May 19, 1944.
It was broadcast on television on August 28, 1978 on DFF 1 .
criticism
“Inconspicuous little love comedy with some frivolous and funny passages. - Possible from 14. "
Web links
- A woman for three days in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A woman for three days at filmportal.de
- Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notes on the preliminary remark. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
- ↑ A woman for three days. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
- ↑ A woman for three days. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .