Gabriela (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Gabriela |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Geza from Cziffra |
| production |
Walter Koppel , Gyula Trebitsch |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Alice Ludwig-Rasch |
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Gabriela is a German family drama from 1950 by Géza von Cziffra . Zarah Leander can be seen in the title role , who made her first post-war film with it.
action
Gabriela is a famous and once acclaimed singer who once enjoyed great success in the bar of a man who eventually became her lover. In order to pursue this career, she had left her husband and daughter Andrea behind. The daughter, now grown up, grew up with a foster mother. Even the father had not given his child undue care in the past. Now that the girl has matured into a young woman, Gabriela realizes the mistake she had made when she gave away her daughter, and she is overwhelmed by maternal remorse.
But now it seems too late for a reconciliation with one's own flesh and blood. Andrea has completely estranged herself from her mother and shows no increased interest in her sire. Because the young woman has long gone her own way. She has become an independent person who is in a fresh relationship with a young engineer. With the help of her old confidante Hansi, Gabriela, who finally understands the transience of fame, glitter and glamor, can regain a little lost trust of her daughter. But Andrea also makes it clear to Gabriela that she no longer needs her today.
Production notes
Gabriela was prepared at the end of 1949 and was created in January / February 1950 in the real film studios in Hamburg-Wandsbek . The outdoor shots were made in the Hamburg area and in Oberstdorf . The world premiere was on April 6, 1950 in Zurich and Frankfurt am Main, the Berlin premiere took place on April 8, 1950. Up until this point in time, Gabriela was the most expensive German film made with DM. This film was also sold well abroad because of the star.
Herbert Kirchhoff designed the film structures. Gyula Trebitsch took over the production management. His wife Erna Sander designed the costumes. Werner Pohl was responsible for the sound.
Artistic performances
Leander sings the songs "There is no woman who does not lie" and "If the Lord wills". The lyrics to Michael Jary's songs were written by Kurt Schwabach .
The Hamburg Soloists' Association Waldo Favre , the Gellert Quintet and the Detlev Lais dance orchestra play . The Gabriela Ballet is dancing
useful information
For Zarah Leander's comeback, the producing Real-Film went to great lengths and spared neither expense nor effort for its equipment. As Der Spiegel reported at the beginning of 1950, Erna Sander designed all 18 dresses for Zarah's first post-war film "Gabriela". The sequin dress, which she wears as a chansonette with a heron feather on her head, is the most expensive. Connoisseurs estimate it at 8,000 to 10,000 DM. The owner of the Hamburg fashion studio Bibernell went to Paris to buy real lace and sequin fabric for the realization of the real film costume rooms. The jewelry that flickers around Zarah in the film is also real. Detectives are guarding him in the studio ... She bought a double-row pearl necklace made of oriental pearls with brilliant-cut diamonds and brilliant-drops herself from the Wilm jeweler.
There are very different statements about the success of Leander's comeback: Gabriela meant a great comeback success for Leander, no other film with the former UFA star should be more successful after 1945. Gabriela reportedly had the third highest box office result of all German films of 1950 and was also shown excellently abroad (Switzerland, Netherlands). Curt Riess, on the other hand, claimed that the film was a flop. “Zarah Leander's first post-war film, 'Gabriela', comes out and fails. (...) 'Gabriela' should actually pull. That is exactly what Leander always made into a film and what people always wanted to see from her. (...) In short, the audience gets scenes in which they cry, scenes in which they can laugh, music that they can sing along to. But the audience doesn't do any of that. It's boring to death. "
Reviews
In the period of April 13, 1950, the following could be read: “The artistic recipe ... has shown its shortcomings. If you take a few grams from each of the old Leander films and cook a new one out of it, then it can only be tasty if the ingredients are mixed correctly. And unfortunately that was precisely what was neglected. Less soulful kitsch and considerably more cheeky bar atmosphere would have suited Zarah Leander better. She proved it when she sang Michael Jary's latest chanson to the usual transitions and was seen in a close-up for a few seconds with a cigarette and a provocative face. In voice and expression that was the celebrated Zarah of yore. (…) What Geza von Cziffra missed in the script, he made up for in the director: He has succeeded in turning the heartfelt story of a mother who struggles for the love of her daughter ... into an undemanding but portable entertainment film. "
"A film tailored entirely to Zarah Leander, full of sentimentality, which is soothingly tempered by Grethe Weiser's play alone."
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Der Spiegel from January 19, 1950, 46 days of shooting were scheduled
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 114
- ↑ Report “Die Zarah verkoof ick” in Der Spiegel, 14/1950
- ↑ Report "Black tiles" in Der Spiegel, 3/1950
- ↑ Hans-Michael Bock / Tim Bergfelder: The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. S. 279. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- ↑ Report “ Close your eyes and jump” in Der Spiegel from October 4, 1950
- ↑ Curt Riess: There's only one. The book of German film after 1945. Henri Nannen Verlag, Hamburg 1958, p. 257
- ^ Critique in Die Zeit, edition 15/1950
- ↑ Gabriela in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 1, 2019
Web links
- Gabriela in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gabriela at filmportal.de