One-to-one confession
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | One-to-one confession |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | André Michel |
| script |
Hugo Maria Kritz Werner Jörg Lüddecke Answald Krüger |
| production | Gunter Wessel |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Helmuth Ashley |
| cut | Anneliese Artelt |
| occupation | |
and Ursula von Bose , Willy Maertens , Georg Eilert , Max Walter Sieg , Hermann Kner , Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum | |
Private confession is a German fiction film drama from 1954 by André Michel with Hildegard Knef , Carl Raddatz and Ivan Desny in the leading roles. The story is based on the novel of the same name by Hugo Maria Kritz , who also contributed to the script.
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Hilde Schaumburg-Garden worked as a young journalist in early post-war Germany. One day she meets the smart and urbane entrepreneur Gregor Marmara. When Hilde gives her a necklace, all the alarm bells ring. The piece of jewelery was once part of a bundle of precious items that she had left behind in Romania with her father, who has since disappeared. The necklace eventually became part of a well-known theft affair. Hilde wonders how this very self-controlled Marmara could have come into his possession. Hilde's father once owned a factory in the Balkans, and when the German fortunes of war waned in the 1940s, Hilde's father handed the necklace and other jewels over to his authorized signatory Jorga in the war year 1944 to hand them over to his daughter. But none of the jewelry ever made it to Hilde.
Marmara tells Hilde that he bought the necklace from a black marketeer shortly after the end of the war. The then guardian of the jewelry on the way to Jorga is said to have tried to murder the manager in order to get the jewelry. Little does Hilde suspect that Marmara is the guardian who became a villain out of greed and first took off Jorga's jewelry in 1944 and murdered him after the war. The journalist in Hilde does not only want to solve this case for family reasons. In Dr. Prigge, the representative of the criminal police, she receives an important helper at her side. More and more all traces lead to Marmara, even if Hilde, who fell in love with the charming, foreign-looking man, initially defends herself against it. After all, the evidence it reveals does not allow any other conclusion. But since Hilde still loves the crook with ice cream gloves, she destroys all evidence. Marmara nobly turns himself in to the police.
Production notes
One-to-one confession was made in Göttingen (studio) as well as in Hamburg and in the Valka camp near Nuremberg and was premiered on September 15, 1954 in Berlin. The Hamburg premiere took place one day later. On September 9, 1967, the strip, which also ran under the title Treffpunkt Kanalstrasse , was broadcast for the first time on German television ( ZDF ).
Helmuth Volmer took over the production management. Ernst H. Albrecht designed the film structures executed by Paul Markwitz .
In January 1955 the film was a German festival entry at the III. International Film Festival in Punta del Este , Uruguay .
Ten years after their big box office success Unter den Brücken , Knef and Raddatz stood here together again in front of the camera.
Reviews
In the mirror it was said: “Carefully crafted crime film ... with a lot of soul ballast and very little tension. Established schieber, who occasionally cheats and murders (Ivan Desny), loves a journalist (Hildegard Knef), whose legacy he has withheld is the cornerstone of his millionaire existence. Unfortunately, the beloved notices much too late what the audience learned immediately. "
The lexicon of international films judges: "A magazine novel was turned into well-tended crime entertainment through competent direction, careful suspense dramaturgy and first-class actors."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review in: Der Spiegel from September 22, 1954
- ^ Confession in private. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 4, 2020 .
Web links
- Confession in confidence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Confession in private at filmportal.de