A woman for a lifetime

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Movie
Original title A woman for a lifetime
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Wolfgang Liebeneiner
script Herbert Reinecker
Georg Hurdalek
Oliver Hassencamp
production Utz Utermann
music Franz Grothe
camera Helmuth Ashley
cut Margot von Schlieffen
occupation

A woman for all life is a German comedy film from 1960 directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner . In addition to Ruth Leuwerik , the other leading roles are played by Klausjürgen Wussow , Harry Meyen and Gustav Knuth .

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The military musician Barnebusch, who in the III. Guard regiment of Kaiser Wilhelm II has decided to marry off his daughter Margarete. He is of the opinion that Margarete should choose one of the men on his musical train. Almost all of them are enraptured by the charming young woman who, in addition to all the virtues that distinguish her, can also play the trumpet excellently. Barnebusch unsuccessfully introduces his daughter one by one to his husbands and then says, exasperated, that she will marry the next one who enters the room, that he will first make a preselection. Meanwhile, there is a knock on the door and Lieutenant Baron Ernst Ewald von Bergen enters the room to bring news of the Kaiser to Barnebusch. Margarete likes the young man exceptionally well and so he is invited for a glass of wine. When he leaves, slightly tipsy, he assures Margarete that he immediately fell in love with her. Not long afterwards, the two of them meet for a rowing game and the first kiss occurs. When they then meet comrades of the lieutenant, Margarete hears the name Irene von und zu Wachenheim for the first time and shortly afterwards gets to know the baroness personally. Ewald von Bergen introduces them to each other as his fiancée. The baroness then lets Margarete know that her brother is an excellent pistol shooter who will challenge Bergen to a duel. Margarete then confesses to Ewald that she too had a past life and that Lieutenant Karl Degenhardt, as the man was called, is probably still in love with her. The men get to know each other and even like each other.

The next morning, von Bergen brought Baron von Wachenheim's request for a duel. Margarete secretly observes the baron's shooting skills and thinks about a feint that actually works so that von Wachenheim cannot appear in time for the duel, which means loss of honor and farewell to the army for him. But only a short time later, Baron von Bergen is again in danger when he stands in for the sick Degenhardt and on the day of the flight, when the Kaiser is also present, controls his three-decker. Despite a violent fit of sneezing in the air, he manages to land the machine safely again, and not only that, he also wins first prize for his flying skills and is personally honored by the emperor. Shortly afterwards, Margarete and Ewald get married.

One year later the couple had a little daughter, called Ursula. Almost twenty years have passed and Ursula is now studying music and blowing the trumpet in a small dance hall. One day the von Bergens visit their daughter, who has left the Pomeranian estates, in Berlin. There they first meet their old friend Kurt Degenhardt. Ewald tells him that the cigar manufacturer Heinemann bought their mortgages and that Gut Bergen will most likely be auctioned off. When they meet their daughter Ursula, Margarete and Ewald meet her friend Willy, who has very modern views and confronts the couple with it. Margarete, who has found out that Heinemann is not averse to occultism, embraces its inclination and makes contact with the medium Mathilde Kameke who is present at his séances . The women agree that Mathilde Heinemann will tell in the evening meeting that an auction of Gut Bergen would bring him bad luck. Heinemann then offered the von Bergens an extension of their mortgage loan and even another loan. Although he wants to undo everything when he learns the truth, he gives up when it turns out that his son Willy has become engaged to Baroness Ursula von Bergen.

Another year has passed and the von Bergens granddaughter's baptism is celebrated. And she, too, becomes an enthusiastic trumpet player who heads a band. It's black market time and Baroness von Bergen knows how to get involved. Her daughter Ursula, her husband Willy and their three sons are in Denmark , only their granddaughter Margarete, called Rita, lives with their grandparents. The crook Schneider, who observed Margarete and her skills on the black market, asks her to help her fetch a suitcase with supposedly valuable watches from a consulate closely guarded by police and American soldiers , of course against appropriate participation. In fact, the baroness manages to get the suitcase. However, Schneider and his companion were taken into police custody at the same time . So Margarete takes the suitcase home with her. When she and her husband open it, however, they do not find any clocks, but the crown of Henry II , which was stolen from a museum held in a salt mine. In the middle of their consultation about what should happen next, her old friend Degenhardt, who was in South America, bursts into it. The next day, while the gentlemen are with the police, the two crooks who have already been released by the police turn everything upside down at Margarete and even threaten the baroness. It all ends in a wild tussle, when Margarete's family, the young musicians and the police suddenly appear. In the end they all find themselves in police custody.

When the director of the museum is called in, everything is cleared up and of course Margarete and her family as well as the other participants who had nothing to do with the robbery are released immediately. Ewald whispers to his wife, with whom he has been connected for almost forty years: "You are the best!"

Production notes

The shooting took place in July and August 1960, among other things above the Isar valley. Numerous onlookers attended them. The production company was Bavaria Filmkunst AG in Munich-Geiselgasteig. Franz Xaver Lederle was responsible for the camera work, Robert Herlth and Robert Stratil for the buildings. The film indicates that the aerial photographs were taken with the help of Deutsche Heliocopter-Dienst KG and approved by the BSTWV under GS 33/1.

In the FSK test on September 13, 1960, A Woman was released for life under the test number 23336 from the age of 6, on July 7, 1997 there was a second FSK test under the number 23336. The film premiered on September 27 1960 in the Burgtheater in Düsseldorf .

The opening credits of the film read: “A swank with music from the good old and new times.” Ruth Leuwerik made six other films under the direction of Wolfgang Liebeneiner, beginning in 1956 with the successful film The Trapp Family and ending in 1958 with the sequel The Trapp family in America . This film followed at the end of 1960.

criticism

In the lexicon of international film one spoke of a “picture book scroll for Ruth Leuwerik; Music, mind and serenity vie for non-binding public entertainment ”read on.

In its review in October 1960, the Hamburger Abendblatt gave a positive assessment and wrote: “Leuwerik is sovereign, replacing her usual outbursts of tears and pain with a quiet, subtle sense of humor. In the humorless desert of German film amusements, the thoughtful, serene kind of joke, a smiling retrospective without self-pity, is only to be welcomed. Simply looks good on us. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Ruth Leuwerik at Filmreporter.de
  2. ↑ A woman for life filmportal.de
  3. ↑ A woman for all life zweiausendeins.de
  4. ↑ hjm: A woman for the whole life In: Hamburger Abendblatt, October 8, 1960. Retrieved July 3, 2015.