Reach for the Stars (1955)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Reach for the stars |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl-Heinz Schroth |
| script |
Helmut Käutner Maria von der Osten-Sacken |
| production |
NDF , Munich ( Harald Braun , Wolf Schwarz ) |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Hilwa from Boro |
| occupation | |
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Reaching for the stars is a German film drama from the art circles of 1955. Under the direction of Carl-Heinz Schroth play Erik Schumann and Liselotte Pulver the leading roles.
action
The young Turell is a talented juggler who has decided on something extremely unusual: He wants to throw his balls in the air in such a way that they stay there for seconds and during this time recreate the constellation of the Great Bear . Although deeply desperate about the fact that he does not succeed in this juggling masterpiece despite the most intensive training, he still holds on to this ludicrous goal. Turell believes that the reason for his failure is that he started training too late. He therefore desperately wants to become the father of a son whom he intends to train towards this ambitious goal from an early age. This regular owner should make Turell's dream come true. After a few affairs, the fanatical artist meets the pretty young Christine. They both become friends and the wedding finally takes place. Before long, Christine gives her new husband a son. His name will be Christian.
A few years passed, and Turell, who had never lost sight of his ambitious goal, is now starting to train intensively with his filius. But Turell senior soon realizes that Christian has neither the ambition and talent nor the fanatical will and desire to juggle his father. Disaffected, Turell lets go of his goal and takes refuge in cheap, gimmicky tricks during his appearances. Driven by ever larger, more and more delusional ideas of perfect ball control in a gravitation-free space, reaching for the stars, it finally comes to a catastrophe. One day Turell injured himself so badly that he had sepsis from which he was unable to recover. In a maddened fever, Turell dreams up the illusion of a perfect juggling number in which he has finally deciphered the secret of weightless balls. At the moment of this supposed triumph, the failed artist dies.
Production notes
The shooting took place between February 7, 1955 and April 2, 1955, and the filming took place in the studio of Bavaria Film in Munich-Geiselgasteig and in Venice (external shoots). The first performance took place on June 30, 1955 in the Düsseldorf Turnhall Theater.
Georg Richter was in charge of production and Hermann Höhn was in charge of production. Lutz Hengst and Helmut Ringelmann were the unit managers. Hans Sohnle designed the film structures implemented by Gottfried Will, Charlotte Flemming the costumes. Hans Wunschel was responsible for the sound. Dieter Wedekind took over the camera work under head cameraman Friedl Behn-Grund . Cutter Claus von Boro served here as Schroth's assistant director, newspaper journalist Will Tremper was involved in the screenplay of this film.
For Liselotte Pulver this was the last (and largely unknown) side production before she experienced her breakthrough in her career a few months later with I think often of Piroschka .
Awards
The FBL awarded the film the title valuable .
Reviews
“ Reaching for the stars is laid out as a parable: The generation of fathers went to war to reach for the stars and rule the world, they were mad. The mothers, in turn, had given up their children, who were helpless in the face of everything. It would be too simple to accuse the film of wanting to discuss the question of German collective guilt away in the variety scene. Reaching for the stars does not spare the viewer. Death, farewell, hopelessness - the trauma of the post-war period appears on the screen. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Trying to treat its subject profoundly and seriously, the film records life down to the caricature and only offers boring entertainment."
literature
- Guido Altendorf: Almost a Käutner film. The madness of the fathers and the interpretation of the past in GRIFF NACH DEN STERNEN (D 1955), in: Filmblatt 20.Jg., No. 57, summer 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review in Zeughauskino, January-March 2015
- ↑ Reaching for the Stars. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 23, 2019 .
Web links
- Reaching for the stars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Reach for the stars at filmportal.de