Front theater

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Movie
Original title Front theater
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1942
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK none
Rod
Director Arthur Maria Rabenalt
script Georg Hurdalek
Hans Fritz Köllner
Werner Plücker
production Terra-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin)
music Werner Bochmann
Hans-Martin Majewski
camera Oskar Schnirch
cut Helmuth Schönnenbeck
occupation

Fronttheater is a German fiction film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt that was shot in 1941/1942 . It tells of Lena, played by Heli Finkenzeller , a successful actress who gives up her career out of love for her husband Paul, played by René Deltgen . Heinz Rühmann and Hans Söhnker have a brief appearance in the film that has so far been neglected.

Today it is a reserved film from the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation . It is part of the foundation's portfolio, has not been released for distribution and may only be shown with the consent and under the conditions of the foundation.

action

The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake, she renounced her acting career. When Paul was drafted, she was persuaded by the director Langhammer, with whom she made several films, to jump in for a sick colleague on a front theater tour. Paul finds out about this and withdraws disappointed. Lena follows her husband, who has meanwhile been transferred to Greece , with the troops from the Front Theater to save her marriage. A clarifying conversation between the spouses leads to a reconciliation.

Production notes

Filming for Front Theaters took place in Greece and Bordeaux , France . Terra-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) , ( Walter Ulbrich production group) acted as the production company . Otto Lehmann was responsible for production management . The buildings come from Willi A. Herrmann , Julius Daumann and Karl Böhm.

In the film, Wilhelm Strienz sings the song Glocken der Heimat in the role of the chamber singer Herrmann .

Cameo

Heinz Rühmann and Hans Söhnker have a surprising brief appearance in the film. Your participation is neither mentioned in the opening credits nor in the illustrated film Kurier .

reception

The film, which premiered in Berlin on September 24, 1942, was not appreciated by Goebbels . In his diary he wrote: “The characters are bad and the conflict is haunted (...).” Nonetheless, the film was rated “politically valuable” and “valuable to the people”. Fronttheater was well received by the public and grossed six million Reichsmarks.

After the end of the Second World War , all copies of the film were confiscated by the high command of the victorious Allied powers and the performance was banned. Today the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation claims the evaluation rights. The film is classified as a reserve film. Since then, its public performance has only been possible to a limited extent.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Fronttheater at filmportal.de
  2. ^ Front theater Wilhelm Strienz sings the bells of home .
  3. a b Torsten Körner: The little man as a star ; Heinz Rühmann and his films from the 1950s , Campus Verlag 2001, pp. 40, 41
  4. ^ Film-Kurier of September 25, 1942, No. 225, Volume 24
  5. Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels . KG Saur, Munich, 15 vols. 1993–1996, ISBN 3-598-21920-2 . Volume 4, September 24, 1942.