Beloved Corinna
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Beloved Corinna |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eduard von Borsody |
| script |
Curt Johannes Braun Ernst von Salomon |
| production |
Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH ( Fritz Anton Hajo Wieland ) |
| music | Peter Sandloff |
| camera | Fritz Arno Wagner |
| cut |
Margot Jahn Walter von Bonhorst |
| occupation | |
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Beloved Corinna is a German melodrama directed by Eduard von Borsody from 1956.
action
The young Corinna Stephan works as an assistant at the Hamburg Tropical Institute . She is an orphan, has no siblings and lives alone. Although she has admirers, the right person was not there yet. Out of pity, she accepts the invitation of the theater actor Klaus Brockmann, who invites her to go motor boating at the weekend. Klaus is depressed, always gets too involved in his roles and has big problems at the theater due to his radical attitude. He loves Corinna and suffers from the fact that she does not return his love. When she throws a picnic on her outing, he can't contain himself and attacks her. The much older Peter Mansfeld rushes to Corinna's help. Klaus leaves and Peter and Corinna spend the day together. He has lived near Kuala Lumpur for 15 years and lets her show him Hamburg. Both go to eat and later to St. Pauli , where they are “married” for the evening by Captain Biene in a pub. Although they have only known each other for a short time and Peter will be traveling back to his homeland in three days, a great familiarity quickly develops between them. He brings her back to her apartment that evening when Corinna sees a light burning in a room. Peter confronts Klaus in her apartment, who shoots him. In fact, Klaus planned to kill both of them out of jealousy and then kill himself. Corinna lets Klaus go and treats Peter, who was shot. In the end, Peter spends the night with Corinna. Both confess their love and are already making wedding plans. Peter indicates that he wants to sort things out in his home country beforehand. He wants to explain everything to her the next day at the Hotel Esplanade.
The next morning Peter left, but left a memory of their meeting at 11 a.m. in the hotel. However, Peter receives a telegram that calls him back to Kuala Lumpur, because his son Georg has had an accident. To catch the next plane, he has to leave the hotel at 11 a.m. He waits a little longer, but Corinna is late, so that both of them miss each other. A call from the airport to the hotel cannot be made either. Corinna waited in vain for a sign from Peter for the next few months, but her letters to him remained unanswered. Meanwhile, Klaus has become more and more depressed, he has lost a leading role in the theater because he fell out with the director, and realizes that Corinna will never love him. He shoots himself in her apartment. Corinna subsequently received threatening phone calls and decided to take a job abroad. In order to be able to visit Peter, she decides to work as an assistant at Dr. Suter not far from Peter's farm. On the outward journey, she learns from Dr. Suter that Peter is married, lost his son some time ago and treated his wife badly. She is disillusioned.
In Dr. Suter's infirmary welcomes her in a friendly manner by his mother. Ms. Suter immediately sees her as her future daughter-in-law and is happy about the assistant, as there is currently a typhoid epidemic on site. Corinna meets Peter, who, however, treats her harshly. A little later she sees Peter's wife Dagmar in the European club, who is rudely brought out of the club by Peter after a short time. Dr. Suter's hints seem to be correct. A little later, Dagmar visits Corinna and makes it clear to her that she is just one of her husband's many affairs and that of course he has told her every detail of the relationship. A short time later, Dagmar is seen drunk on her farm. She treats employees badly and beats them for trivialities. Corinna and Peter speak out through the mediation of Peter's friend Tan Chin. You can see that Dagmar intercepted all of Corinna's letters to Peter and also kept Peter's letters to Corinna. She also forged a telegram to Peter in which she parted with him as Corinna. Corinna now decides to fight for her love. Peter wants to divorce Dagmar, but that would only be possible if he could prove her deeds. Tan Chin manages to put Dagmar's house boy Suka into a trance and to get the confession from him that he intercepted Corinna's letters for Dagmar. Tan Chin was also able to steal the intercepted letters. When Dagmar realizes that the letters have disappeared, she has her housemaid Tanah arrested in revenge for allegedly stealing earrings. Tanah takes her own life in custody. Her lover Longo, Peter's house boy, disappears from the farm. Tan Chin advises Dagmar to get a divorce and flee abroad to avoid Longo's revenge, but she refuses. From Dr. Meanwhile, Suter learns from Peter that Dagmar is not alcoholic, but mentally ill. Although Peter could divorce Dagmar in this way, he now refuses to abandon his sick wife. Instead, he asks Dr. Suter to become a good friend to Corinna. Longo in turn returns to the farm. Totally insane, he kills Dagmar and other employees of the farm until he is shot by Tan Chin. Some time later, Peter sold his farm and other properties. He will marry Corinna. Both set off by ship to Jakarta , where they settle down and devote themselves to rice cultivation.
production
Geliebte Corinna is based on the novel Geliebte Corinna by Robert Pilchowski , which was published in the Illustrierte Constanze . The costumes were created by Trude Ulrich , the film structures were created by Gabriel Pellon and Max Arthur Bienek .
The FSK working committee released the film in December 1956 without cuts from the age of 16. The special committee, which consisted solely of representatives of the state youth authorities, however, upgraded him to 18 years. The rental company then called the main committee. Here it was agreed that the film could be released from 16 if a scene was removed in which Corinna gave herself to a married man after just a few hours.
The film had its cinema premiere in Deggendorf on December 21, 1956 . On January 12, 1965, the film ran for the first time on German television and was released on DVD in 2006.
criticism
"Mendacious colportage based on a magazine novel," was the opinion of the film service .
Web links
- Beloved Corinna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beloved Corinna at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 153.
- ↑ Beloved Corinna. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .