I search for you
| Movie | |
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| Original title | I search for you |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | OW fisherman |
| script | OW Fischer Gerhard Menzel Martin Morlok Claus Hardt |
| production |
Conrad from Molo for Aura-Film |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Margot von Schlieffen |
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Ich sucht Dich is a German melodrama by OW Fischer from 1956. It is based on the play Jupiter Laughs by AJ Cronin from 1940.
action
A new doctor arrives at the castle sanatorium “Gute Hope”: The young, religious Dr. Françoise Maurer comes from Alsace and plans to go to the sanatorium in Indochina after a short time to help the poorest of the poor in a hospital there. While she is warmly greeted by the doctors and the head nurse, Dr. Paul Venner hardly takes a look at them and prefers to go to his laboratory outside the sanatorium building. Here he has been researching the active ingredient betrazole, which is supposed to regenerate dead brain cells, for some time. With the knowledge of the chief physician, he tests his remedy on Forster, a patient with weak heart, a dry alcoholic who, to the delight of his wife, makes significant mental progress.
Aside from his rabbit , which he keeps in the laboratory, the cynic Paul has only one confidante: old Dr. Drews, whom he calls Papa and who is the only one who always takes his side. The chief doctor supports his work, but doesn't get along with him personally - his wife Gaby also has a secret relationship with Paul. The head nurse Fanny, on the other hand, hates Paul because he has turned “her” pavilion into his laboratory. Françoise takes Paul’s side, even if he makes a fool of her religious beliefs. Soon he realizes his baseless cynicism towards her and apologizes for his behavior.
They become a couple and spend a lot of time together, during which Paul continues to work on Betrazol. Just in time for Christmas, Paul has fully researched the active ingredient and completed his written work on the substance. He doesn't want to send the text yet, because the post office doesn't work over the Christmas period, and stores it in the pavilion. His patient Forster continues to make progress, even if he does not adhere to the alcohol ban imposed by Paul. Only Françoise's joy is clouded, as she suspects that the now successful Paul would never accompany her to Indochina. Meanwhile, Paul ends the affair with Gaby with clear words.
The Christmas presents organized by Head Doctor Brugg begins - Françoise gives Paul the New Testament - when suddenly a nurse announces Forster's death. Paul finds an empty beer bottle by his bed and suspects that the death was due to Forster's weak heart. However, since Paul administered Betrazol to him that morning, Chief Physician Brugg suspects that the drug has something to do with the patient's death. He openly opposes Paul, claims that he secretly experimented with Betrazol and thus caused Forster's death, and appoints a commission of inquiry. Since he also forbids Paul to autopsy the corpse, Paul takes it together with Dr. Drews - he wants to use brain slices to prove that Betrazole works. The offer of Françoises to come to Indochina with her, Paul refuses: “The Bible educated you, Françoise, and me life,” he counters and she bursts into tears.
Françoise prepares her resignation because she is going to Indochina in four weeks. When Paul laughs, she accuses him of not actually needing her. He confesses his love to her and she asks until evening to think it over. The investigations mean that Paul initially appears guilty. In the afternoon, Gaby offers him to testify that her husband Brugg knew about the Betrazol administration. With the betrayal of Brugg, she hopes to be able to continue her relationship with Paul, but he hits her in the face. Beside himself, Gaby drives to the pavilion and throws Paul's treatise on betrazole into the chemicals. Then she lights a cigarette, but throws it away when she sees Françoise approaching. The embers kindle the pool of chemicals and the treatise within. Françoise takes the book out of the flames. When she runs into the pavilion again to save Paul's rabbit, she dies in the flames.
Paul had still held the dying Françoise in his arms and in those minutes he realized that her life was the right one and his was the wrong one. In the meantime he has submitted his Betrazol paper and his findings are being celebrated in the professional world. Forster's death was also due to his heart failure and not to betrazole. Nevertheless, Paul packs his things, including the New Testament he received from Françoise, and instead of his dead friend goes to Indochina, where he hopes to find her spirit again. He still can't believe in God, but he wishes he could.
production
Ich sucht Dich was filmed from January 11, 1955 to December 22, 1955 at Schloss Seeleiten in Seehausen on the Staffelsee near Murnau in Upper Bavaria . The studio recordings were made in the Bavaria film studios in Geiselgasteig near Munich .
The film had its premiere on February 24, 1956 at Theater am Aegi in Hanover .
Hans-Martin Majewski's film music was recorded by the Graunke Symphony Orchestra , the piano soloist was Julian von Károlyi .
criticism
The film had only moderate success at the box office and was partially panned by the critics.
In 1956, Der Spiegel found that the film was “skillfully and effectively tailored to the star OW Fischer”, but criticized “the somewhat penetrating morality that leads the doctor from self-important recognition to belief or at least the will to believe”. This is "developed in relatively clever, dry dialogues. There are some love scenes full of delicacy, but in between a lot of cliché and caricature and - as is often the case in German films - an excess of pathetic accompanying music. "
The Catholic film service criticized Ich sucht Dich 1956:
“Four screenwriters desperately tried to create this extravagant painting of the soul. [...] OW Fischer [...] as his own director was obviously only interested in himself. [...] The film 'Ich sucht Dich' under its neat surface is little more than a monologue by Mr Fischer, who wants to pretend profundity. All effects are cited only for him, the star with incredible impulses of soul. […] One can hardly take this jumble of undigested thoughts and feigned feelings seriously when viewed from a more distant perspective. And as far as the religious side of the whole thing is concerned: mainly big words are used which, in such a superficial composition, underline the void of the film. "
The lexicon of international films published by film-dienst in 1990 that OW Fischer in the film "primarily [stage] himself and ... [use] the opportunity to incorporate his diffuse philosophy of life into the melodramatic story."
Cinema called the film "sentimental".
Awards
OW Fischer won 1957 at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián for Ich sucht Dich the Silver Shell. In addition, the film received the first OCIC Award at this festival, since 2001 the SIGNIS Award from the International Catholic Organization for Cinema and Audiovisual (OCIC).
Web links
- I look for you in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I'm looking for you at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See OW Fischer. A gentleman is playing wrong . In: Der Spiegel , No. 8, 1957, p. 48.
- ↑ New in Germany: I'm looking for you . In: Der Spiegel , No. 11, 1956, pp. 39-40.
- ↑ L-nn .: I'm looking for you . In: film-dienst , No. 9, 1956.
- ↑ Klaus Brühne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 4. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1727.
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See sansebastianfestival.com
- ↑ Cf. signis.net ( Memento from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )