I live for you

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Movie
Original title I live for you
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1929
length 108 minutes
Rod
Director Wilhelm Dieterle
script Charlotte Hagenbruch
production Joe Pasternak
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Charles Stumar
occupation

I live for you is a German silent film drama from 1929 by and with Wilhelm Dieterle as a pulmonary misanthrope . At his side, Lien Deyers plays the blonde sunshine that warms his heart and lets him recover.

action

The setting is a Swiss sanatorium for lung patients in picturesque and tranquil Arosa . Young Bergson has been waiting there for seven years for his recovery from his illness without it progressing. During this time he has become a bitter recluse and hater of people. Only with the significantly older, terminally ill Prince Wronsky did he forge a deep friendship. One day a new patient arrives at the sanatorium: it is the pretty, blonde and very young Nicoline who drives into the smelly Alpine clinic like a happy whirlwind.

Bergson initially hardly pays attention to Nicoline in his aversion to anything new, but soon the fun-loving woman understands how to enchant everyone - including the Grantler Bergson. Due to her open nature, she finally breaks open Bergson's armor and enables not only his soul to be healed, but also that his lungs gradually recover. When both have completely recovered after a while, the young people realize that this fateful encounter is a sign that they should stay together in the future and become happy together.

Production notes

I live for you , working title Triumph of Life , was filmed from December 1928 to January 1929 in the UFA studio in Berlin-Tempelhof (interior shots) as well as in Arosa, Engadin, Spreewald and the Rüdersdorfer Kalkberge (outdoor shots). The premiere took place on September 3, 1929 in the UFA pavilion in Berlin.

Sepp Allgeier advised the US cameraman Charles Stumar . Also from the United States came the cameraman Robert Surtees , who assisted Stumar here and, after 1945, was to become one of the most important visual designers of classic Hollywood cinema.

Director Dieterle and the official screenwriter Charlotte Hagenbruch were married to each other. The film structures were created by Alfred Junge and Max Knaake . The subtitles come from Alfred Polgar , Lajos Biró took over the dramaturgy. Johanna Marbach designed the costumes. Kapellmeister Otto Stenzel conducted Willy Schmidt-Gentner's cinema music .

Reviews

Lucy von Jacoby from Tempo magazine wrote about Alfred Polgar's involvement in the film: “It is amazing: to master a certain way of writing film titles, you need a flaw. Can you acquire a shortcoming? ... Alfred Polgar, so fine, so wise, so considerate - he can do that too. "

In his review in Berlin am Morgen, Hans Tasiemka devoted himself entirely to the main actor and director Dieterle: “Wilhelm Dieterle, a good spokesman for the Schaubühne, fails in the film as he transfers the stage technology to the film. He remains a speaking actor. (...) As a director he is a specialist in touching symbolism "

Fritz Walter from the Berliner Börsen-Courier found in his review: "If the way in which one of the most serious disease problems of mankind is used here as a staffage for a magazine story, it becomes completely unbearable through the staging of the film" and comes to the end : "... this film is on a level that undercuts even the simplest taste."

Even the reviewer of the Berliner Tageblatt didn't leave Dieterle's staging good: "Under Dieterle's direction, one is almost always content with the favors of the previous conversation game, and that gives a barely bearable contrast to the disgraceful milieu of the lung sanatorium."

Individual evidence

  1. In an interview, Hagenbruch confessed that in truth her husband had written the manuscript and left the naming to her in order to avoid the appearance of an all too clear one-man production.
  2. Tempo, Berlin, No. 206 of September 4, 1929
  3. Berlin am Morgen, No. 145 of September 5, 1929
  4. Berliner Börsen-Courier, No. 419 of September 8, 1929
  5. Berliner Tageblatt, No. 436 of September 15, 1929

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