Mysterious depth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mysterious depth |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| script |
Gertrude Pabst Walther von Hollander |
| production | Pabst-Kiba production, Vienna (Georg Wilhelm Pabst) |
| music |
Roland Kovac Alois Melichar |
| camera |
Helmut Ashley Hans Schneeberger |
| occupation | |
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Mysterious Depth is an Austrian post-war film with Ilse Werner and Paul Hubschmid , in which a young woman cannot decide between an idealistic cave explorer and a rich industrialist.
action
Dr. Wittich is a passionate speleologist who spends more time on his research than devoting himself to his fiancée Cornelia. Therefore she turns to the rich industrialist Roy, whom she eventually even marries. But her heart actually belongs to the researcher and so she is drawn back to him. When they finally penetrate a cave system and its “mysterious depths” in the Pyrenees, they perish in it.
background
The outdoor shots were taken in the Dachstein giant ice cave and in the Hermannshöhle / Kirchberg am Wechsel. The Rosenhügel film studios served as a studio . Werner Schlichting and Isabella Ploberger created the buildings, JA Hübler-Kahla and JW Beyer were production managers. The world premiere took place on September 8, 1949 in Vienna. The film previously ran on August 19, 1949 at the Venice International Film Festival .
After its poor reception, the film was considered lost for a long time, then copies were rediscovered in the Cinémathèque française in 1992 . As a director, Pabst consciously used the effect of the deep, bizarre caves as a metaphor to describe the psychological abysses and secrets of the human soul.
Reviews
"The good camera work cannot save the trivial drama of fate that appears to be significant."
Mysterious Depth is a film with obvious weaknesses: kitsch and cheap pathos, a three-penny dispute; But it also contains images of downright disturbing imagery, wrote Thomas Brandlmeier in epd film .
Web links
- Mysterious depth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mysterious depth at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mysterious Depth at filmportal.de
- ^ Heinz Holzmann, Roman Pilz, Hubert Trimmel : Hermannshöhle and Dachstein-Rieseneishöhle - the main locations of a movie from 1948. In: Die Höhle. Volume 44, Issue 2, 1993, pp. 1–5 ( PDF (1.3 MB) on ZOBODAT , accessed on May 22, 2013).
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 115 f.
- ↑ Mysterious depth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Brandlmeier: The other Pabst. (PDF; 132 kB) Comments on the GWPabst retrospective of the Berlin Film Festival. In: epd Film, No. 05, 1997.