Homesickness for Germany
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Homesickness for Germany |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernhard Redetzki |
| script |
Werner Eplinius Janne Furch Peter Günter Meyer |
| production | Cito-Film, Munich |
| music | Hans Ströer |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Herbert Taschner |
| occupation | |
and Albert Florath , Heinz Hofer , Walter Holten , Fritz Lafontaine | |
Heimweh nach Deutschland is a German war and escape drama from 1954, set in North Africa . Albert Lieven , Arno Assmann , Petra Peters and Ingrid Lutz play the leading roles under the direction of nature filmmaker Bernhard Redetzki .
action
North Africa 1942/43. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa Corps failed, the German advance towards the east came to a standstill before El Alamein . Sergeant Fred Berger is among the German Wehrmacht soldiers who were taken prisoner. Since, as the film title suggests, he is homesick for Germany and is drawn to his mother's home, he breaks out of the camp without further ado. Stranded parched, starved and almost dying of thirst in the desert, an opaque contemporary named Pertrides saves him from a cruel death. Fred Berger gratefully joins this man who is on his way to Lebanon. Berger is supposed to work for him in Beirut. The German only realizes late that his savior is a real villain, a drug smuggler.
Torn between the gratitude towards his lifesaver, who enables him to live a carefree life here in the diaspora, and the ruthlessness of the drug dealer, Berger tries to evade a decision by focusing entirely on his actual goal: returning to Germany. Neither Pertrides nor Berger suspect that the smugglers' gang is already on the trail. The archeology professor Ashar and the detective, disguised as a waiter, Erik Olsen try to put Petrides down the dirty trade, whereby they can ultimately fall back on Berger's help. When the villain finds himself cornered, he tries to evade his punishment by suicide. Fred Berger can finally return home to Germany and hug his mother in his arms. And in the niece of the archeology professor, Marion Ashar, he has also found his great love.
Production notes
The shooting of homesickness for Germany took place in the Schonger film studio in Inning am Ammersee and in the spring of 1954 in numerous locations in Lebanon (Beirut, Jounieh, Les Cedres, Nahr al-Kalb, Harissa, Baalbek, Bikfaya, Beit Mery) in northern Africa (El Alamein, Tripoli) and in Syria (Damascus). The premiere was on October 28, 1954 in Stuttgart, the Berlin premiere on December 25 of the same year.
Dr. Hanns Ritter took over the production management, Max Gierke the production management. Curt Stallmach designed the few film structures.
criticism
“An unbelievable adventure film, staged as unimaginative as it is tension-free, at most appealing with a few visual accents. The themes of war and the fate of the prisoners are woven in the style of a real Schnulze with a corresponding homesick song. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German Feature Film Almanach, Volume 2: 1946–1955, p. 426. Munich 1981
- ^ Homesickness for Germany in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 1, 2020
Web links
- Homesick for Germany in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homesickness for Germany at filmportal.de