Heidelberg romance

Movie
Original title	Heidelberg romance
Country of production	Federal Republic of Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1951
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Paul Verhoeven
script	Willy Clever , Karl Peter Gillmann
production	Meteor-Film GmbH ( Heinrich Jonen )
music	Werner R. Heymann
camera	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
cut	Ilse Voigt
occupation
Liselotte Pulver : Susanne Edwards OW Fischer : Hans-Joachim Prince of Reiningen Gardy Granass : young Fannerl Brückner Gunnar Möller : William Edwards as a student Hans Leibelt : William Edwards Ruth Niehaus : Gabriele Altendorf Hans Reiser : Erwin Turner Margarete Haagen : Aunt Amalie Brückner Paul Verhoeven : Detective Schulze Melanie Horeschowsky : old Fannerl Joachim Brennecke : Thomas Altendorf Franz Schafheitlin : Hotel employee Walter Sedlmayr : Landlord Liselotte Malkowsky : singer Margit Saad : flower seller Heinz Lausch Günther Voigt

Heidelberger Romance (Austrian distribution title: Zwei Herzen in Alt Heidelberg) is a German love story by Paul Verhoeven from 1951 , the leading roles of which are Liselotte Pulver and OW Fischer as well as Gardy Granass and Gunnar Möller .

action

The rich American Susanne Edwards learns by letter in Chicago that her fiancé Erwin Turner has fallen in love with Heidelberg and therefore wants to end the engagement with her. Horrified, she persuades her father William to go to Heidelberg with her and he agrees, hoping to find his former lover Fannerl again after around 40 years. He tells the story to Susanne.

He came to Heidelberg from America as a young student and met Fannerl when he was looking for a place to stay in the city. Without further ado, he moved into the room her aunt was renting. Through an unjustly served prison sentence , he came into contact with the Gothia fraternity, of which he soon became a member. He spent two happy years with Fannerl before he had to return to America in 1914 due to his father's sudden illness. Although he promised Fannerl to return soon, he never made it.

Susanne and her father move into their hotel in Heidelberg. While William entrusts a private detective with the search for Fannerl, Susanne makes it clear to her fiancé that she does not intend to end the engagement and will travel back to America with him the next day. Afterwards she wants to be shown by a tour guide to Heidelberg, but the medical student Hans-Joachim, who is committed to it, expresses such disrespect for the supposedly old American that she cancels the tour.

In a chance meeting outside the hotel, Hans-Joachim loses his pocket watch - it ends up in Susanne's pocket unnoticed and Susanne is now brought to the police station as a thief. Hans-Joachim waived a complaint and now spends the following days with Susanne. He regards it as a pathological case - presumably poor, bad parents, neglected upbringing, thief and liar - and wants to cure it. Through several coincidences he is confirmed in his picture by Susanne, especially since she soon poses to him as “Fannerl Brückner” to test whether he could love her for her own sake. Since those around them had to swear not to expose their masquerade, their father still covers them when Susanne tries to reveal herself to Hans-Joachim. Only when he separates from her because of imposture does she dissolve everything and they both fall into each other's arms. After a few setbacks, William is also lucky: by chance he meets Fannerl, who has been married to a former fellow student Williams for many years. Her daughter is Erwin's new friend, whom Susanne released through her new love.

Production, publication

Heidelberg's old town and the castle (left), central locations of the film

The shooting took place from August 1951 to October 1951 in Heidelberg and in Atelier Hamburg-Bendestorf. Fritz Maurischat and Paul Markwitz were responsible for the buildings . Among other things, you can hear the songs Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Städtele out and the Old German Folk Song . Some lyrics go back to Hans Fritz Beckmann .

The color film produced in Agfacolor was premiered on December 23, 1951 in the Metro am Schwan in Frankfurt am Main . In Austria it was shown for the first time in September 1952 under the title Zwei Herzen in Alt-Heidelberg . The film was also released in 1953 in Turkey under the title Ask Beldesi and in 1956 in the USA and under the title A Cidade do Amor in Portugal.

criticism

For Der Spiegel , Heidelberg romance was the “peak of German (film) restoration. Thanks to the pleasantly mild colors, it is a powerful advertising brochure for romance-thirsty 'Babitts'. "

The lexicon of international films called the film "a reminiscence of 'Old Heidelberg' set in scene" past reality, partly sentimental, partly humorous. "

For Cinema , the love film was “beautiful lard in a colorful fifties look” or rather a “teasing, nostalgic reminiscence of the Neckar city.”

Award

Gardy Granass was for Heidelberger Romanze the German Film Prize in 1952 with the Golden can as best young actress award. She shared the award with Gertrud Kückelmann .

Web links

• Heidelberger Romanze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heidelberg romance at filmportal.de
• Films of the Fifties VIII: Heidelberger Romance (1951) see newfilmkritik.de
• Heidelberger Romance Fig. Title page Illustrierte Film-Bühne No. 1380 (in the picture: OW Fischer, Liselotte Pulver)
• Heidelberger Romance movie poster see IMDb
• Heidelberger Romance full movie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New in Germany: Heidelberger Romance . In: Der Spiegel, No. 3, 1952, p. 25.
2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1530.
3. ↑ Heidelberger Romance See cinema.de (including 17 film images). Retrieved October 26, 2018.