Crook's Honor (1933)

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Movie
Original title Crook honor
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1933
length 113 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Oswald
script Charles Rudolph ,
Heinz Goldberg
production Richard Oswald
music Rolf Marbot
Bert rice field
camera Ewald Daub
cut Else Baum
occupation

as well as Arthur Wellin , Arthur Reinhardt , Heinz Goedecke , Sylvia Torf

Ganovenehre is a German feature film by Richard Oswald, premiered in 1933 , based on the play of the same name by Charles Rudolph with Fritz Kampers , Rotraut Richter and Paul Heidemann in the leading roles.

action

The Berlin “Sparverein Biene” is a criminal organization called “Ringverein”, which obeys its own laws and is structured similar to the Mafia with its principle of omertà . One can only join this organization, but never leave it, because “the secrets of the association must be taken to the grave”. Anyone who should try to do so is death and "released for shooting". One day there is a new addition, the just after three years from the prison dismissed safecracker George Posanke called artists-Orje . His bride Nelly, a curb swallow , brings him up with her friend Olga so that he can get a roof over his head first. She also ensures that Orje finds a new home in the “Sparverein Biene”. Orje, however, does not want to become a pimp, as Nelly suggests, and he also dislikes the fact that “his girl” goes to work and lets some guys mount her. The somewhat dumb Orje can soon be charmed by Olga and wrapped around her finger, especially since her pimp Seiden-Emil is currently traveling. Nelly catches the two of them and tells Emil who is unfaithful to Olga. Now Orje is angry and slaps Nelly in the face.

This has serious consequences. Because Nelly does not want to be offered such behavior, she goes to the board of the "ring club". Here she claims that Orje took money from Olga - a serious offense according to the statutes of the “bee savings association”, which is punishable with a draconian punishment, as it violates the criminal's code of honor, the “crook's honor”. The so-called “court of honor” of the syndicate decides that Nelly and Olga have to leave Berlin . But this meets with great resistance from Orje, since he feels this judgment to be deeply unjust. He does not want to put up with something like that, who had campaigned in vain for women, and after savage verbal attacks against the “court of honor”, ​​he declared his resignation from the “bee savings association”. But this means nothing less than that Orje has to be moved out of the way according to the association's statutes. When an assassination attempt by the brutal tooth breaker Arthur on Artisten-Orje fails in the “massage parlor” , he decides to single-handedly take up the fight against the criminal organization. But before the police can arrive and arrest the crooks, Orje is shot by his own people - in accordance with the statutes.

Production notes

Crooks honor , sometimes under the long title crooks honor. A film made from the Berlin underworld was shot in just two weeks from December 15, 1932 in the UFA studios in Berlin-Tempelhof and premiered in two Berlin cinemas on February 3, 1933. In Vienna, the strip ran on August 4, 1933 under the title Secrets of the Underworld .

The film structures executed by Walter Haag were designed by Franz Schroedter . Walter Zeiske was production and production manager.

In the winter of 1965/66 Wolfgang Staudte shot a remake of Ganovenehre with Gert Fröbe and Mario Adorf in the leading roles. This version was much more comedic than Oswald's film and also had a "happy ending".

Censorship decision

The film aroused considerable moral concerns and strong protests from both the state and the police. In the applications made by the governments of Prussia and Bavaria on April 20, 1933, it was stated: “The strip of images has an unmistakably demoralizing and brutalizing effect. However, it is also suitable for endangering public order (...) However, the preventive character of the police, which guarantees the public personally effective protection, does not come into play in the strip of images. The strip of images is therefore suitable for endangering trust in state power and thus public order. ”The film inspection authority granted this application on May 15, 1933, not least with reference to the guidelines of the newly established Nazi regime. There it says: “The new state is endeavoring to get to the root of the evil of the pimp organizations clad in the form of harmless associations. He will not tolerate their existence. Thus, the strip of images does not correspond to today's conditions and is suitable to take away the audience's confidence that the police are willing to exhaust all means to fight crime. The prerequisite for a successful work of the police is the active participation of the audience, which is diminished by such representations. "

criticism

Paimann's film lists summed up: “… thrills contrasted with raw humor. Gripping only towards the end in a description of the situation. The direction, sensationally and not very ambitiously, renounces the visual penetration of the material, relies too much on mere stage effects. In spite of the occasional charging, it is pretty real representation. (...) Good medium film. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme 4th year 1933. P. 45 (022.33), Berlin 1992
  2. ↑ Application to ban crooks honor on April 20, 1933
  3. ^ Censorship decision on the prohibition of crooks honor on April 20, 1933
  4. ↑ Secrets of the Underworld ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Paimann's film lists @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.filmarchiv.at