High school (film)

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Movie
Original title high school
Country of production Germany / Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1934
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Erich Engel
script Heinrich Oberländer
production ABC film , Tobis-Sascha
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Bruno Mondi
cut Else Baum
occupation

Hohe Schule (alternatively: The Secret of Carlo Cavelli , The Secret of Cavelli ) is a Viennese film directed by Erich Engel in Austria from 1934. This officer and love story was one of the most successful productions of 1935.

action

Carlo Cavelli is the stage name of a world-famous art rider who always masks his appearances and whose real name is unknown. He is now supposed to appear in Vienna, which is causing a sensation for Viennese society. At this art equestrian competition, Irene von Ketterer, a young woman who moved in with a friend after an argument with her mother, also becomes aware of him. Impressed by Cavelli's person, she decides to become an art rider too. After a while she succeeds in receiving lessons personally from the otherwise so aloof Cavelli. The two immediately like each other, but when Cavelli learns the name of his student, he tries to stay away from her. Because he painfully remembers the duel that marked him for his life. At that time he shot the son of his best friend, the brother Irenes. After a pause for thought, he realizes how much he is attracted to Irene and, after recognizing Irene's attraction to him, decides to hold her hand. At the same time, however, he asks her to travel with him to London the next day.

Irene is thrilled and goes to her father to get her papers. She also notices a photo that shows her brother with Cavelli. Irene asks her father what this means. He then tells her the story of that duel when Count Werffen, who later called himself Cavelli, shot her brother. The world collapses for Irene, and when her father learns that this is the man she wanted to marry, he gets his gun to avenge Irene's brother. However, Irene is able to deter him from his thirst for revenge by threatening to commit suicide.

To clear up the story, Cavelli plans to go to Irene's father that same evening. He comes accompanied by three friends who have various documents with them. This shows that Irene's brother had been exposed as a spy and that Cavelli only started the duel in order to spare the von Ketterer family the disgrace of a court martial against Irene's brother. Father Ketterer has now understood and is reconciled with Cavelli. The evidence is burned and nothing stands in the way of a marriage between Cavelli alias Graf Werffen and Irene.

background

It premiered on December 31, 1934 in Munich . The film started after the premiere in Berlin's Gloria-Palast on January 24, 1935 in Germany and after the premiere in Vienna on February 6, 1935 in Austria.

The song “ The heart of an authentic Weaner ” is based on the melody from “ Vienna stays Vienna ” and was sung by Hans Moser.

production

The film was produced by the Berlin ABC-Film and shot in the Vienna studios of Sascha-Film in Sievering and on Rosenhügel. Due to the inclusion of the film in Austria, the film was classified as an Austrian production according to German quota regulations , but as German according to Austrian production due to the German producer. Filming began in mid-October 1934.

The sound system used was that of the Tobis sound film . The production designer was Julius von Borsody .

The film distribution was taken over by the New German Film Syndicate (NDLS) in Berlin and Huschak & Co in Vienna. The film was distributed by the producers, the Berlin ABC film and the Vienna Tobis Sascha film industry.

Censorship decisions and versions

In Germany, the film was examined by the censorship authorities on December 21, 1934 and a youth ban was placed on it. When it was screened in Germany, the film was 2,468 meters long, and in Austria 2,500 meters. Today the film is approved for ages 16 and over (FSK).

See also

literature

  • German sound films - Volume 06 - 1935. Ulrich J. Klaus Verlag, Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-927352-05-5

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