Miss Huser
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Miss Huser |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leonard Steckel |
| script |
Richard Schweizer Horst Budjuhn |
| production | Lazar changer |
| music |
Robert Blum Paul Burkhard |
| camera |
Emil Berna Gérard Perrin |
| cut | Käthe Mey |
| occupation | |
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Fräulein Huser is a Swiss feature film from 1940 directed by Leonard Steckel . Trudi Stössel plays the title role . The film is based on the woman's and romance novel In the Name of Love by Rösy von Känel .
action
Irene Hauser alias "Reni Huser" is a young Zurich tailor and comes from a very petty-bourgeois, narrow milieu. She is in the service of the “Maison Marion” fashion salon. One evening when she was going home from work, she was hit by a car. The shy young woman hates nothing more than to be in the center of public attention, and so Irene takes refuge from the crowd in the car of the person who caused the accident. She pleaded with the driver to drive off immediately. Behind the wheel is a middle-aged man, the married manufacturer Peter Frank. He likes the young woman and he is not averse to an affair. In the following days, Frank Irene drives from the fashion salon to her home every evening.
Miss Hauser initially gets involved in this affair, but only until she learns that Peter Frank is not free and has an almost grown-up son. To make matters worse, Ms. Frank is also a good customer of the fashion salon. Irene then wants to get rid of Peter, but he turns out to be extremely affectionate. He persuades Miss Hauser to spend a few days with her in a Geneva hotel. Here he promises his lover that he wants to divorce his wife. But Mrs. Frank puts pressure on. Also one day the conscience reports to Irene, who has been living very decently and faithfully according to moral principles. When her ultra-conservative father also speaks up and rants about the “sanctity of marriage”, which one shouldn't stain or destroy, Irene escapes in panic from the confines of her parents' home. Fräulein Huser wanders through Zurich at night and briefly plays with the idea of killing herself. The next day she returns to work with the firm intention of never seeing Peter again.
Production notes
The shooting took place from February to March 1940 in the Rosenhof film studio (studio recordings) as well as in Zurich and Geneva. The premiere took place on April 16, 1940 in Zurich, there was no German premiere. The in-house director of Praesens-Film , Leopold Lindtberg , was scheduled to direct , but he refused this film project.
useful information
Fräulein Huser advertised with the slogan: “The first Swiss film that seriously deals with the problems of love”. It was Lazar Wechsler's attempt to create something like a “women’s film” after the “hard man’s stuff” Fusilier Wipf and Wachtmeister Studer , i.e. a cinema piece especially for the female audience. The sentimental romance novel “In the Name of Love” by a local Swiss author from Aargau came into its own, which after its publication in Switzerland in 1938 had sold a total of 23,000 times and was therefore a bestseller. The writer Rösy von Känel was also known to radio listeners: she moderated a program that dealt with questions of married life.
Reviews
The film turned out to be a financial and artistic fiasco. Many of those involved in this production later distanced themselves from "Fräulein Huser". The leading actress Trudi Stössel was then no longer offered a film. The Catholic press is said to have rebuked the artificial, artificial happy ending, the bourgeois press criticized the topic, which was perceived as banal, in such an explosive time, and in the political left press "Fräulein Huser" was ridiculed in view of the ubiquitous simplicity.
In Hervé Dumont's The History of Swiss Film , it is said: “Steckel does not have the ambiguity of his colleague Lindtberg, as his view of acting is relentlessly tied to the boards. From his first film onwards, the director showed that he was able to get excellent performances out of his actors, but that camera and montage remained alien to him ”.
In the lexicon of international films it says: “Melodramatic love film in a restored version, shot from a successful novel of the time. At the time, the film disappointed artistically and financially; contemporary criticism accused him of smoothing out the original too much. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hervé Dumont : The history of Swiss film. Feature films 1896–1965. Lausanne 1987, p. 257
- ↑ a few months earlier the Second World War had begun
- ↑ Miss Huser. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 24, 2019 .
Web links
- Miss houses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Miss Huser on filmpodium.ch