Haunted People (1932)
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| Original title | Haunted people |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 94 minutes |
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| Director | Friedrich Feher |
| script | Friedrich Feher Heinrich Fraenkel |
| production | Emco-Film, Berlin |
| music | Friedrich Feher Walter Ulfig |
| camera | Ewald Daub |
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Haunted People is a German film drama from 1932 by Friedrich Feher with Eugen Klöpfer in the leading role. Feher's wife Magda Sonja and both son Hans Feher play other leading roles . The story is based on the novel The Black Man by Alfred Machard .
action
In the small town of Lonville near Marseille in the south of France, the widowed master carpenter Vincenz Olivier and his eight-year-old son Boubou live the life of a well-respected, simple but kind-hearted fellow citizen. His eight-year-old son Boubou is his greatest treasure since his wife's death. Now the corpulent craftsman is finally thinking of marrying the mayor's daughter. But in the midst of his wedding celebration, a police intestine suddenly appears and asks the old man to come along and take his papers with him: He is accused of being an escaped prison convict named Léon Bernier, who is said to have killed the sister of his then lover 20 years ago. Bernier / Olivier had already served ten of the 20 years, then escaped from the dungeon. The carpenter was tracked down on the basis of the photo with his future wife that was printed in the newspaper. Today, as then, Vincenz emphatically denies having committed the former bloody act.
As the statute of limitations expires in two days, Vincenz sees no other chance to stay with his son as a father than to flee with little Boubou. To manage the escape, they both slip into a coffin made by him and to be delivered by Olivier's journeymen. In the meantime, the police have advertised the escapee and alleged murderer for a search, Bernier's profile Z 48 is emblazoned on all the walls. In order not to attract attention, Olivier removes his mighty beard and, as a loving father, puts his son, now that they are looking for him, in the clothes of a little girl. Father and son now become the hunted people that give the title, whom all the world is looking for. Desperate, Olivier hopes to finally prove his innocence. Father and son wander through the area, exhausted trying to reach Marseille, where they hope to find a better hiding place. In order not to scare Boubou too much, Vincenz tells his little son that this escape is only being organized because the "black man" (also the title of the novel) is pursuing it.
On their escape route, father and son stumble upon a tingle fishing company in which curiosities such as the “lady without a belly” or the “woman with the full beard” are on display. Olivier mingles with the people in order to remain anonymous. Once he even stands among the row of wax criminals in a wax museum. Nevertheless, he is recognized in this hiking company of all places: The “lady without a belly” is none other than his former lover and at the same time the sister of the once murdered young woman. Of course, the woman knows who is the man with the little child by his side. When she saw Bernier / Olivier, she was terrified. But the reasons are completely different, and they only show up when Bernier is discovered, arrested and taken to the police station. When the “lady without a belly” remains behind with Boubou, who is suffering, crying and frightened from the arrest, her conscience reports and the woman goes to the police station. Here she confesses that she shot her own sister down out of jealousy.
Production notes
Haunted People , also known under the title Profile Z 48 , was created in the middle and late summer of 1932 in the DLS studios in Staaken . The exterior shots were taken in Marseille. The film premiered on December 6, 1932 in the Atrium cinema in Berlin. The film was shown in Austria under the title Jagd auf Menschen
The film structures were created by Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf . Eugen Hrich took care of the sound.
The Czechoslovak version of this production was called Stvani lide and, apart from the Feher family, had completely different actors. This film ran in Prague on February 17, 1933.
music
Two songs were played:
Chanson of the lady without abdomen! and yes, you wonder (Italian folk song with a text by Joachim Ringelnatz ).
Tenor Joseph Schmidt can only be heard as a singer in the German version.
Reviews
In the trade journal Der Film it could be read: “The beginning was splendidly divided and designed in an exemplary manner, the characters in the game were bursting with strength and life, the game got off to a great start, and the fate of the previous robbery two days before the The statute of limitations for his act threatened to fall into the hands of the police, was rolled out virtuously. The rare miracle of an obsessive film work forced parquet and rank under its spell, the scenes were driven up to the strongest effects with an unrivaled boldness, and what could serve as an example for outside aspirants in downright fanatical direction and the most succinct dramaturgical formulation is present here. So the skillful use of acoustic enhancement [...] moments, so the refined performance of the director [...], the characteristic introduction of the actors brought about solely by the camera position and the clever, always moving sketch of the milieu. "
The Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: "In the film directed by Friedrich Fehér, Eugen Klöpfer in the figure of Bernier gives a character portrayal of extraordinary forcefulness, little Hansi Fehér plays the role of Boubous with love and astonishing certainty".
Web links
- Hunted people in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Haunted people at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Review in: Der Film, issue of December 10, 1932 , printed on film.at
- ↑ "Haunted People". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , December 10, 1932, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).