Home - your songs

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Movie
Original title Home - your songs
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Paul May
script Kurt Wilhelm
production Eberhard Meichsner
for Divina
music Rolf A. Wilhelm
camera Walter Riml
cut Werner Preuss
occupation

Heimat - Deine Lieder is a German Heimatfilm by Paul May from 1959 . In addition to Sabine Bethmann and Rudolf Lenz , Ingeborg Schöner and Peter Vogel are cast in the leading roles.

action

Eva Weigand works as a children's village mother in the SOS Children's Village in the Lüneburg Heath . She is out and about with her nine protégés when the girl Bärbel runs away from the group and is almost hit by a car on a nearby street. Paul Werner and his friend Fritz are sitting in the car. Both are on their way to Hamburg , when Paul wants to meet his fiancée Beate. Now they stop and are initially surprised that young Eva can have nine children. When they find out the background, they bring Eva and the children back to the SOS Children's Village. Paul is taken with Eva and plans to stay a while. He wants to be in the Heidekrug in the evening when Eva's SOS Children's Choir performs with songs as part of a home evening for displaced people. Fritz cancels Beate on the phone because they both had a breakdown. Beate goes to the Heidekrug full of worry and sees Paul dancing with Eva. She is outraged, confronts Eva and tells her that she is engaged to Paul. Eva is disappointed in Paul and leaves, but Paul catches up with her and kisses her. Beate drives away furiously and seeks Paul's mother. She makes it clear to her that she, Beate, will be the sole heir to Clasen-Werke. The Clasen-Werke, in turn, promised Paul's father, director Friedrich Werner, a loan that would save his company from ruin. Beate now threatens to ruin the Werner family in the event of an engagement. Mother Werner promises to talk to her son.

Meanwhile, Paul has discovered his heart for the children's village. He knows that it depends on donations and plans to market the children's choir. For this he gets in contact with the talent scout of the NDR. In fact, the children's choir is allowed to audition at the NDR and will be booked as a program item for the next festival entitled Home, Your Songs . But not everything is going well. Young Helga has started to work on a trial basis in the children's village. The children love her, but Helga is visited several times by the seedy Uwe, who asks her for money. Helga lets herself be beaten and gives him the last of her cash. On a visit to the fair, Uwe turns to Helga again when she is out with the children's village boy Hannes. Uwe Helga secretly steals the savings book and Hannes alerts the police. At the police station, Uwe excuses himself: He is not a thief because he has taken his own wife's savings bank book for safekeeping. In addition, she left her child in the lurch, which he had to take care of. Uwe has to return the book, but is released. Helga is devastated because married women are not allowed to work as children's village mothers. In reality, she is still married, but wants to separate from Uwe. He was in jail for theft and has not improved since then. The daughter from their three-year marriage lives with Helga's mother.

Helga says goodbye in the children's village and returns to her mother - just in time, because Uwe wants to take the child in without prior consultation. Meanwhile Eva and her choir at the festival home, your songs arrived and the children are singing the song Heidenröslein . Paul has since separated from Beate and proposes to Eva. She is insecure because she can no longer be a children's village mother like that. However, the home manager convinces her to accept the application. He has already found a successor for Eva: Helga can become the new mother of the children's village. Beate, in turn, is reconciled. She will not ruin Paul's family, but rather donate a considerable sum to the children's village. In addition, she is now giving a chance to Paul's friend Fritz, who had been in love with her for a long time in vain.

Production, publication

Heimat - your songs is based on the novel Heimat, dein Lieder by Sophie Hartmann .

The film was directed by the production company Co. KG DIVINA-FILM GmbH & manufactured. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The outdoor shots were shot in the Lüneburg Heath, the shots in the SOS Children's Village were shot in the Schneverdingen holiday village of the German Recreation Center, the studio shots in the Divina-Studio Baldham . The costumes were created by Ilse Dubois , the film structures are by Wolf Englert and Werner Achmann . The shots of cities in Silesia shown in the film during an evening in the Heidekrug come from the Federal Ministry for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims .

Numerous songs can be heard in the film. Peter Wegen sings Every day comes to an end . The Lamy Children's Choir and the Wilten Boys' Choir sing numerous folk and children's songs, including Ten Little Negroes , Wandering is the miller's delight , From the Riesengebirge , home of your songs , Listen, what's coming from outside, and Big Longing, Little Heart . The Kurt Graunke orchestra plays .

Heimat - Your songs came into cinemas on October 30, 1959 with a mass start. The film was released on DVD on November 17, 2006 by Studiocanal / Kinowelt.

criticism

The film service criticized the "flimsy triangular story, which leads to a multiple happy end. A kitschy Heimatfilm, knitted around numerous German folk songs, thematically mendacious and already out of date by the time it was made. "

Kino.de spoke of a "soulful homeland film by Paul May, made in the same year as his extremely successful family quarrel ' And forever sing the woods '". And here, too, there is sung, “by Peter Wegen and the Rudolf Lamy Choir, who would contribute to the framework of the not particularly exciting event with German folk songs”. "Rudolf Lenz, the forester from Silberwald , plays the playboy who loses his heart to Sabine Bethmann, who is pure to the core."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimat, Deine Lieder Fig. Cover picture DVD with Ingeborg Schöner and Peter Carstens
  2. ↑ Home - your songs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Heimat - your songs: Folk songs sound in the Lüneburg Heath, bringing the hearts of Rudolf Lenz and Sabine Bethmann into harmony. sS kino.de. Retrieved July 14, 2018.