Believe in me
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Believe in me |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Geza from Cziffra |
| production | Geza from Cziffra |
| music | Anton Profes |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger |
| occupation | |
and Gisela Wilke , Josef Gmeinder , Ena Valduga , Ernst Reitter | |
Belief in me is the first feature film made in Austria after the end of the war in 1945. Directed by Géza von Cziffra playing Marte Harell and Ewald Balser the leading roles.
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Professor Franz Wiesinger and his language student Irene von Weyden have a fiancée who is considerably younger than him. The 50-year-old man who wants to marry this woman doubts whether she is really loyal to him. So he got the idea to put them to the test during their relaxing holiday in a winter sports hotel in the mountains (on the Arlberg in Tyrol). He sends his nephew there, who is supposed to closely monitor their behavior and then report to him. Irene, however, smells the roast and now begins to flirt with the nephew. Franz should pay for his lack of faith in her! The cheeky joke soon becomes serious, because the young woman actually falls in love with another man, a hotel guest named Hans Baumann, whom nobody has on the bill and who will first race down the ski slope with her and then take her home. The professor is left behind and has to give up his fiancée with a heavy heart.
Production notes
The shooting - studio shots in Vienna-Sievering, outdoor shots from January 1946 in Zürs am Arlberg - took place before those of Der weite Weg , which is considered to be the first post-war Austrian film , but afterwards, on November 15, 1946, Faith in Me was premiered . The German premiere was on April 5, 1947 in Constance.
Carl Hofer took over the production management. Gustav Abel designed the film structures.
The 22-year-old Senta Wengraf made her film debut here.
Reviews
At that time it was said: “One could have assumed from this busy film writer that previous coercion and lack of freedom inhibited his production. But now you can see how he creates in the new freedom from the full, from the snow ... In Berlin, so you hear, the audience at the performance of this Austrian - how do you say in the national language? - "Schmarrens" not participated. It went away in droves and disrupted the performance. (...) You feel some regret for an important, witty actor like Ewald Balser, that he is able to take part in such a colorless, ice-frozen mixing kitsch yesterday that avoids any platitude and shuns all intellectual costs. "
The Austrian Arbeiterzeitung also hit the same horn at the premiere in 1946 and stated that this ridiculous story made it difficult to believe in “a rebirth of Austrian film art”. And the Wiener Kurier was also very disappointed. There it was said, “It's not just the wintry environment that leaves you cold with the whole story… Even the actors couldn't save anything. (…) They all do their best, but, since every requirement is missing, unfortunately for nothing ”.
The world in the evening judged the film similarly. There it said: “Unfortunately, what we hoped for from him did not come true. This film, too, is by no means suited to helping the Austrian film industry achieve any ... international significance. We know what difficulties the production of this work was associated with, but we also know that many shortcomings cannot be excused with time-related calamities: the sometimes very poor plot, and sluggish staging ... the wrong casting of the leading role: Marte Harell in honor ... a But she is not a young girl ... a dialogue that is far-fetched. "
The film service judged: "Austrian comedy of confusion on a rather modest level."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critique of June 4, 1947
- ^ Critique in the Wiener Kurier of November 16, 1946
- ^ Criticism in the world on the evening of November 16, 1946
- ↑ Believe in me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2019 .
Web links
- Believe in myself in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Believe in me at filmportal.de