Spring in Berlin
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Spring in Berlin |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
| script | Curt Johannes Braun |
| production | Kurt Ulrich |
| music | Hans Carste |
| camera | Georg Bruckbauer |
| cut | Klaus Eckstein |
| occupation | |
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Spring in Berlin is a German episode feature film from 1957 directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt with a strong advertising character for Berlin . Curt Johannes Braun wrote the script . The work was premiered on October 25, 1957.
action
Bad weather conditions over Denmark force the plane, which took off as planned in Vienna, to make a stopover in Berlin. None of the passengers are happy about it, least of all the two wanted bank robbers. When they are received, the police are waiting for them; however, they manage to escape. Nicoline Peterson, the wife of the Swedish press photographer, is angry because her long-awaited divorce is being delayed because of her involuntary stay in Berlin. The opera diva Verena Illing does not have a good word to say about this city either, because many years ago she had to experience a bitter disappointment here: Her music teacher Markoff, with whom she briefly had a relationship, gave her the pass. The fat Greek annoys it because he cannot be there when his first child is born. Ferry from Vienna, who wants to emigrate to Canada, remembers his first great love, which he found in Berlin and only renounced the girl because he did not want to stand in the way of her career as a dancer.
No sooner have the passengers set foot on Berlin soil than they feel that there is a special atmosphere in this city. Nobody can escape their charm. Kurfürstendamm , radio tower , AVUS , Olympic stadium and zoo cast a spell over every stranger. They all come into contact with everyday life in Berlin in their own way. Nicoline lets her (still) husband persuade her to help him with a photo report about the island city. She falls in love with her husband again. The opera diva has to realize that the contempt for her singing teacher was only the result of a misunderstanding. Ferry visits his childhood friend Heidi and finds that nothing has come of her ballet training; she works as a waitress in Café Kranzler .
After two days, the forced stay in Berlin is over. When the passengers arrive at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport , everyone is transformed. The short time was enough to infect you with the Berlin optimism. Only the two crooks are missing; they were caught by police in the eastern sector of the city and are now in prison.
Production notes
The outdoor shots were taken at numerous original locations in West and (!) East Berlin, as well as in Potsdam. You can see the Tempelhof Airport, the Olympic Stadium, the AVUS, the radio tower, the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Kreuzberg, the Kurfürstendamm (with the Hotel Kempinski, the Café Kranzler and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church), as well as that Casino Resi in the Hasenheide, the train stations Zoologischer Garten and Alexanderplatz, the Stalinallee, the Hansa quarter and the Lietzensee. Then in Potsdam the Brandenburg Gate, the Wrestler Colonnade, remains of the city palace, as well as the Marstall (today's film museum), the garrison church and the New Palace, Sanssouci Palace and the Chinese pavilion. The buildings were designed and executed by the film architects Hanns H. Kuhnert and Wilhelm Vorwerg . Walter Salemann designed the costumes.
criticism
The lexicon of international film describes the strip succinctly as "inconsequential episode film with the intention of advertising for Berlin, the milieu, attitude to life and political realities (1957) only superficially captures."
Cinema found that the banal stories about an opera diva or a crisis-ridden couple (Sonja Ziemann, Walter Giller) told nothing about the people or the special status of Berlin at the time. The film is not even suitable as an advertisement for Berlin.
Der Spiegel came to the following conclusion: “The director Artur Maria Rabenalt produced a Berlin prospectus in clean colors, which for the sake of future business in the East also contains the attractions Stalin-Allee and Potsdam. A cityscape like Julien Duvivier's Paris film did not come about despite the episode technique that was also used. Rabenalt offers only vague kitsch stories to which a few local sayings are fleetingly attached. "
See also
Spring in Berlin is also a title by Rainhard Fendrich .
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , Mannheim, without any number
Web links
- Spring in Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Spring in Berlin at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 1149
- ^ "Spring in Berlin" short review at cinema.de with three pictures
- ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: Spring in Berlin (Germany). In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1957 ( online ).