Fruit without love
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Fruit Without Love (TV Version: Secrets of a Marriage) |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Erfurth |
| script | Heinrich Oberländer |
| production | Artur Brauner for CCC-Film , Berlin |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| cut | Kurt Zeunert |
| occupation | |
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Frucht ohne Liebe is a German feature film (problem film, marriage drama, psychological film) that director Ulrich Erfurth directed at the end of 1955 for the West Berlin production company CCC-Film . The world premiere took place in 1956 . The subject of the film is the psychological problems of a childless couple.
Plot of the TV version (Secrets of a Marriage)
The place of action is initially an unmarked German city, time is the present. Barbara and Georg Kling have been happily married for five years. Your only unfulfilled longing is a child.
Georg is an aspiring architect who is currently trying to land a major contract. There is resistance: the client (the city) is not yet convinced of Georg's design, and the competition is not sleeping either. At least as much as the stress at work, he is plagued by fear of failure in his private life: although he could adopt a child with Barbara, he would have to have a medical examina- tion and have it certified that he cannot father children. However, he is not up to a confrontation with his possible sterility.
The pressure on Georg increases when Barbara, who doesn't even know what to do with all her maternal instincts, brings a strange child home from the city park and inadvertently creates a little riot because the girl's mother believes in a kidnapping. Barbara has a fatherly friend, the gynecologist Prof. Schillinger. He examines Barbara and finds that she is fully able to have children. This news is a shock for Georg.
Barbara does not understand his reaction and feels increasingly rejected and alienated by him. Schillinger then invited her to attend a film lecture at the university. The lecturer is Dr. Walter Kolb, a physiologist who goes on mountain expeditions to study how the human body reacts to great heights. Barbara feels attracted to Kolb, who appears masculine, open and courageous to her.
Georg has now happily won the bid for his large building project. Without talking to Barbara about it, he lets Schillinger examine him and learns that he is unable to procreate. Schillinger believes that women who are withheld from motherhood become neurotic and ultimately also physically ill. He consequently advises Georg to divorce; but he doesn't want to lose his wife.
When Barbara Schillinger reveals her suicidal thoughts, he advises her to relax for a few days in her forest hut. Schillinger visits her there and shows that Georg has had himself examined. But when he withholds the findings from her, she gains access to the medical record behind his back and in this way learns of Georg's infertility. The fact that her husband has not confided in her disappoints her immensely. She thinks he's a coward.
Kolb has now traveled to the Pyrenees , where he and his team are preparing for another high-mountain expedition. Barbara follows him. Kolb falls in love with her, apart from nightly close dancing, languishing looks and a kiss, there are no intimacies between them, because Barbara still loves her husband and - despite all the conflicting feelings - is unable to cheat on him.
Meanwhile, Georg suffers a heart attack. In the hospital, he doubts whether he really has a right to bind Barbara to himself. This is now on the way home, but is overtaken by Kolb, who follows her on the plane. At first, Kolb only found Georg in Barbara's home. He urges him to release his wife; Georg has now realized that Barbara has to decide for herself who she wants to belong to.
After her arrival, Barbara retires to the Waldhaus again for a few days. Georg looks for her there and speaks to her. When Kolb learns that the couple are together again, he makes one last attempt to win Barbara over. However, she rejects him. Kolb sets off on a new expedition to Kathmandu . Barbara helps Georg with his work, later they adopt a child.
Production and theatrical release
Fruit without love is based on the only script that Heinrich Oberländer, who emigrated to France in 1938, wrote after the Second World War .
The shooting for the film, which initially had the working titles Die Große Sehnsucht and Die Ewige Sehnsucht , took place from November 8 to December 15, 1955 at the Jungfraujoch and in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau . Kückelmann's male film partners Holm and Wicki were 11 and 10 years older than them, respectively: a characteristic of many German feature films of that time. Although she was only 27 years old when the film premiered, Kückelmann then appeared again in the GDR-Swedish co-production Spielbank-Affäre , then her screen career was over. From 1958 she was only seen in television films.
Columbia Film GmbH in Frankfurt / Main took over the distribution. The premiere took place on January 26, 1956 in the Cologne cinema Rex am Ring. The film was broadcast on television under the title Secrets of a Marriage .
Web links
- Fruit without love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fruit without love at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fruit without love. Accessed May 1, 2019 .