Homeless (1958)

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Movie
Original title Homeless
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Herbert B. Fredersdorf
script EA Wildenburg
production Divina movie
music Lotar Olias
camera Walter Riml
cut Werner Preuss
occupation

Heimatlos is a German feature film by Herbert B. Fredersdorf from 1958.

content

The Tyrolean farm girl Barbara Kirchner accepts the wedding proposal from the sawmill owner Franz Leitner. He jealously watches over his beautiful girlfriend and is not very enthusiastic when she flirts with Konrad Fürst from Munich , who comes through the village in an expensive car. Barbara decides to go to her friend in Munich for a few weeks. On the bus she meets Konrad again, who flirts with her to her friend's house. It turns out that the friend has gone away herself, so Barbara actually wants to go back to her village right away. At Konrad's request, however, she takes a room in a guesthouse for one night. Both go out together in the evening.

Franz calls Barbara afterwards and knows that she doesn't live with her friend. He travels to Munich and meets Barbara at the pension. When Konrad appears shortly afterwards at Barbara’s house, he suspects an affair between the two of them and terminates the engagement to Barbara. When Barbara rushed back to the village, Franz had already told her father about her "immoral behavior" and he was angry. Barbara feels misunderstood and travels back to Munich with Konrad, disappointed. Both move in together and want to get married after just two months. What Barbara doesn't know is that Konrad earns his living smuggling stolen cars that he brings across the border into Italy . Franz happened to see Konrad changing the license plate on a car shortly before the border and went to Munich to warn Barbara. When it comes to a fight between Franz and Konrad, the police are called - Konrad is identified as a wanted criminal at passport control and shot while trying to escape.

Barbara stays behind in Munich. She goes into debt and starts working as a barmaid in a nightclub. Your only caregiver is the bar singer Freddy. Things get complicated when Barbara notices that she is pregnant by Konrad. The village pastor, who is the only one in her home town to suspect that many people have wronged Barbara, visits her in Munich and promises not to tell about her pregnancy in the village.

Years later, Barbara lives in Munich with her little daughter Hannerl. She has built a new life as a dressmaker and found a good friend in Freddy. He has got his first record deal and, in exuberance, proposes marriage to Barbara. However, shortly before, after a long time, she saw Franz again in Munich and still had feelings for him. Franz has also learned from his past mistakes and has become a better person. She rejects Freddy's proposal and meets with Franz again, but she does not tell him that she has a daughter. Because of this she cannot enter into a relationship with him. However, the village priest accidentally reveals to Franz that Barbara has a daughter. Franz takes Hannerl as his daughter and he and Barbara become a couple in the end.

production

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 taken in April 1958 in Austria and Munich, the studio shots in the Divina-Studio Baldham .

Freddy Quinn sings the songs Homeless , Alone, Still Alone and I'll be back soon in the film . The title song Heimatlos reached number 1 in the German charts. Dany Mann appears as a village girl who sings on the Gamsbockalm . The lyrics are from Peter Moesser and Aldo von Pinelli .

The film premiered on July 2, 1958 in the Universum in Stuttgart .

criticism

The lexicon of international film based on film-dienst referred to Heimatlos as a "lying Heimatfilmkolportage".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1537.