Buchholz family

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Movie
Original title Buchholz family
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1944
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Carl Froelich
script Jochen Kuhlmey
production Carl Froelich
music Hans-Otto Borgmann
camera Robert Baberske
cut Wolfgang Schleif
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
inclination marriage

The Buchholz Family is a German fiction film from 1944 by Carl Froelich based on the novel Die Familie Buchholz (1884) by Julius Stinde . The elaborate family chronicle with Henny Porten in the lead role was continued in the same year with marriage of inclination from the hand of the same director.

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Berlin during the imperial era, late 19th century.

For a long time, the Berlin housewife Wilhelmine Buchholz was content with her fulfilling role as mother and wife of two. Now she is developing ambition to make a name for herself as a writer. Her first novel, the Buchholz family, which has not yet been completed, reflects her living environment, and many of her friends and acquaintances can also be found there. Wilhelmine's publisher Julius Stinde is enthusiastic about this lifelike family chronicle after the first viewing. In other ways, too, the head of the family, Wilhelmine, is as patent as he is solid. With great organizational talent, she also 'throws' the lives of husband Carl and their two daughters Emmi and Betti. At most , Kathinka Bergfeldt, a gossip addict and penetrating “friend” of Wilhelmine, confronts her as a challenge and eternal nemesis .

Emmi and Betti are now of marriageable age, and Wilhelmine Buchholz is very careful to look out for well-off and respected husbands. The doctor Dr. Franz Wrenzchen and Emmi love each other - a game that Wilhelmine initially likes very much, until a Petitesse arouses her greatest displeasure. Suddenly she has a lot to object to about Wrenzchen. But Wilhelmine quickly finds a worthy opponent in the smart medic, who is not in the least prepared to let the resolute happy family get him down.

Betti's friend Emil, a bad boy from a good family, on the other hand quickly turns out to be a total failure. He is lazy and greedy and shows himself unwilling to work on these character flaws. When he feels too challenged, he leaves Betti and looks around for another bride. Betti, very struck, finally gives in to the advertising of the painter Holle, who has been trying to find her for some time, and goes out with him. Mother Wilhelmine was deliberately not informed because her Holle doesn't seem good enough for her Betti. On the day of Emmi's wedding to her doctor, Holle goes to Italy to perfect his art.

Wilhelmine Buchholz has to do everything on the one hand to comfort the apparently deeply bent Betti, on the other hand, with the recent events in her family, she has enough material to complete her novel.

Production notes

Filming began on January 19, 1943 (studio shots) and mid-May 1943 (outdoor shots). The film was shot in Berlin , Ahrenshoop and on the Liepnitzsee until September 9, 1943 . The studio recordings were made in the UFA studios in Berlin-Tempelhof .

The film passed the censorship on January 21, 1944, received a youth ban and was premiered on March 3, 1944 in the Berlin UFA-Theater Tauentzienpalast , in the UFA-Theater Alexanderplatz and in the Kosmos-Palast in Berlin-Tegel .

The script was written by Jochen Kuhlmey , who also wrote the play of the same name, which premiered in 1941.

The Buchholz family received the ratings "artistically valuable" and "popularly valuable".

The production cost of this two-film large-scale production was approximately RM 1,455,000.

The song I send these flowers to you was performed by Marianne Simson .

Director Froelich was also responsible as production manager, while his long-time employee Friedrich Pflughaupt took over production management . Walter Haag designed the film structures. Hans Fritz Beckmann provided the texts for Hans-Otto Borgmann's film composition . The contemporary costumes are by Josef Meister, Erich Schmidt was the chief sound engineer.

With this two-part family portrait, Froelich's three-decade collaboration with Henny Porten ended.

criticism

In Carl Froelich's biography, the Buchholz family and inclination marriage, Kay Wenigers, the film's great personal encyclopedia called a "moral image from the 'good old days'" "

The lexicon of the international film judged: "Folk family history from the Berlin bourgeoisie around 1880 - old-fashioned, but well played and mostly amusing."

In Bogusław Drewniak's The German Film 1938–1945 it says: “The actors for this picture of old Berlin were chosen with skill. The family-addicted and Philistine, typical Berlin bourgeois woman with heart and soul played the once famous Henny Porten. She was supported by a number of well-known actors. ”Incidentally, the imperial capital, which was severely tested by the bombing at the premiere, is remembered:“ The tortured residents of the metropolis on the Spree received these films, so to speak, as a prize or a reward. ”

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 13, year 1944/45. P. 35 (012.44), Berlin 2002
  2. ↑ 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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 124.
  3. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 2, p. 962 f. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
  4. ^ The German Film 1938-1945, A Complete Overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 498
  5. ↑ ibid., P. 499

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