Friederike von Barring

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Movie
Original title Friederike von Barring
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1956
length 93, 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rolf Thiele
script Rolf Thiele
production Hans Abich , Rolf Thiele
music Friedrich Meyer
camera Werner Krien
cut Erwin Marno
occupation

Friederike von Barring is a German film drama from 1956 by Rolf Thiele with Nadja Tiller , Martin Held , Carl Raddatz and Dietmar Schönherr in the leading roles. The film was developed as a sequel to the great success of Die Barrings , also directed by Thiele in the previous year (1955).

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The story begins in the early Weimar Republic . The Barrings, coming from East Prussia , have now settled in Berlin. In view of the difficult economic circumstances and hyperinflation, old Barring, father of the girl Friederike, shot himself in the Tiergarten on April 16, 1923 after he had written a suicide note. Great-uncle Emanuel von Eyff is appointed Friederike's guardian. But Friederike has an irrepressible thirst for freedom and a will to live; she wants to escape Barring's conventions and not perish with her sour relatives. Her goal is to make a career in show business in the shimmering, energetic and almost hyperventilating amusement metropolis of Berlin. First she performs as a dancer, then she tries herself as a diseuse at the vaudeville owner Falkenstein. When the opportunity arose to marry the young millionaire heir and the son of an industrialist Müller-Stauen junior, she turned down the opportunity. Friederike soon feels emaciated and overworked and then recovers in the Swiss spa town of Davos.

When the National Socialists took power in Germany in 1933, she decided to leave Germany at the side of her Jewish sponsor Falkenstein. Both emigrate to New York, where Friederike, who is mostly called “Fritzi”, is aiming for a great career. But they weren't exactly waiting for her here, and so Fritzi gets by more badly than well. When Falkenstein died in exile in 1936, Friederike no longer had anything to do with the United States and she decided to return to Hitler's Reich. Fritzi von Barring decides to follow in the footsteps of her ancestors and returns to East Prussia to find what she is now most urgently looking for: peace, quiet ... and herself. As all other East Prussians try to do before 1945 To flee the Red Army in long treks through the snow towards the west, Friederike stoically waits on her own floe and dies at the moment when the Soviet troops conquer her family property.

Production notes

Friederike von Barring was premiered on August 17, 1956 in Berlin's Marble House .

Producer Hans Abich also took over the production management, Eberhard Krause the production management. Walter Haag designed the film structures, Manon Hahn the costumes. Gerhard Krüger directed the camera under the direction of head cameraman Werner Krien .

Nadja Tiller, who embodies the title role here, played Gerda Barring, Friederike's grandmother, in the first "Barring" film.

Reviews

The reviews of the second part were much more negative than the first part of the "Barrings":

Der Spiegel said: “The director Thiele succeeded in some timelines and some half parodies. The author, on the other hand, mixes the chaotic biography with the known political facts in a rather artless way. The former beauty queen Nadja Tiller ("Miss Austria 1949"), who played the wicked Gerda in the first Barring film, now portrays her granddaughter so appealing and level-headed that even the sweetest pain can still be endured. "

The lexicon of international films reads: "More melodramatic and ingratiating than the first part, far removed from the literary model."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review in: Der Spiegel from August 29, 1956
  2. ^ Friederike von Barring. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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