Fregola (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fregola |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Röbbeling |
| script |
Karl Farkas Harald Röbbeling |
| production | Heinrich Haas |
| music |
Willy Schmidt-Gentner Theo Nordhaus |
| camera |
Günther Anders Hannes Staudinger |
| cut | Margarete Smolka |
| occupation | |
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Fregola is an Austrian crime, music and revue film from 1948 by Harald Röbbeling with Marika Rökk in her first post-war role . Rudolf Prack plays at her side .
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Fregola is a celebrated revue star whose successes have been overwhelming. One day her fiancé, Pablo Mendez, a rather greasy bon vivant of bad repute, is found murdered. He was shot. In a found letter, a certain Dr. Santos accused of the crime, especially since Santos and Mendez were linked in mutual aversion. Dr. Santos can no longer be questioned, he has left for Paris. Fregola therefore decides to use the three days of vacation she has until her next performance to travel to Paris and ask Santos. During the train ride, she met the odd and honest scientist Dr. Wegscheider, who wants to give a lecture on drugs in Paris. In order to be able to enter France without any problems, Fregola and the married Wegscheider pretend to be a married couple.
Fregola begins to spy on Santos and approaches him cautiously. She steals his passport so that he cannot take his planned departure for Lisbon. She makes sure that the passport is suddenly found again at the bar, and they both start talking. Soon Fregola and Dr. Santos gets closer, and the revue star begins at Dr. Santos' guilt, which is obviously surrounded by a dark secret, is beginning to doubt. Meanwhile, Wegscheider's alleged marriage with Fregola brings this generally already quite nervous man into ever greater tension, because in truth he is married and fears that his “arrangement” with Fregola will soon be exposed and get him into great trouble. Fregola gets into a great conflict of conscience when Santos, completely surprisingly, confesses his love to her.
Fregola now plays opposite Dr. Santos with cards open and admits that she only chased him for the murder of her fiancé. Santos confesses to her that he actually killed Pablo Mendez. Still, Fregola doesn't want Dr. Santos is arrested and avoids making a statement from the Paris detective inspector Dr. Ribault to sign. She hastily leaves for her next performance in Geneva. Santos follows her there. Here he confesses that his confession was wrong. He only wanted to protect his sister, who was obviously Mendez's lover and from whom the scoundrel was expecting a child. Santos helped his sister escape to Bolivia, his homeland. Now nothing stands in the way of the happiness of Fregola and Santos.
Production notes
Fregola was made in the middle of 1948 in the film studio in Vienna - Sievering and in Vienna and the surrounding area (exterior shots). The film passed the Allied military censorship in November 1948 and was premiered on Christmas Day 1948 in Vienna. The German premiere was on February 4, 1949 in Munich, twelve days later Fregola was shown for the first time in Berlin.
Styria film producer Heinrich Haas also took over the production management, Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures, Gerdago the costumes. Fred Adlmüller outfitted Marika Rökk. Otto Untersalmberger was responsible for the sound. Herbert Sennewald was the unit manager.
Fregola was a huge hit with audiences, especially among female moviegoers.
Reviews
The time called Fregola a "equally successful as shallow Marika Rokk film."
"Criminal clichés and the exotic in a plot that poorly frames the relatively lavishly furnished revue scenes."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Bergfelder: International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. S. 31. Berghahn Books, 2005.
- ↑ The gloss and misery of German film. Report in Die Zeit from April 28, 1949
- ↑ Fregola in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 1, 2019
Web links
- Fregola in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fregola at filmportal.de