I'll carry you on my hands (1958)

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Movie
Original title I will carry you on my hands
I'll carry you on my hands 1958 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1958
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Veit Harlan
script Guido Fürst ,
Veit Harlan
production Arca-Filmproduktion ( Gero Wecker )
music Werner Eisbrenner
camera Gerhard Kruger
cut Klaus Eckstein
occupation

I will carry you in my hands is a German drama film that was made in 1958 under the direction of Veit Harlan . The feature film produced by Gero Wecker is based freely on the novella Viola Tricolor by Theodor Storm . The color film, shot in Agfacolor , premiered on November 7, 1958 in the Gloria-Palast in Stuttgart .

The content of the film has no connection with the film of the same name from 1943.

action

The church of St. Severin in Keitum on Sylt served as the venue for the wedding.

While walking in the Holstein dunes, a man hears a piano playing from the window of a house. The woman at the piano asks him inside. The two quickly get to know each other better. The pianist Ines Thormälen only devoted herself to music after her fiancé left her. The antique dealer Rudolf Asmus, who comes from South Tyrol , lives with his eight-year-old daughter Agnes, called Nesi, in a house in Fiesole near Florence . Since the death of his wife Maria, also a pianist, the girl has become the content of his life. Ines and Rudolf soon decide to get married.

Ines moves to Italy with Rudolf. Nesi already watches the couple's arrival with suspicion. Nesi, who was raised by the nurse Anne to have an idolatrous love for the deceased mother, reacts increasingly jealous and stubborn. When Ines discovers an overgrown part of the garden and a cordoned-off pavilion, the little girl claims that her mother's piano can still be heard from the grand piano there at night. Anne is also anything but taken with the new wife at Rudolf's side.

In a central scene of the film, Kristina Söderbaum placed flowers under one of the tondi at the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence.

Rudolf tries to do everything for Ines. He gives her a car, which she and Rudolf's fatherly friend Dr. Tried Compagnuolo. The Italian housemaid Pia and the odd chauffeur Georg from Berlin also provide some happy moments. But Nesi and Anne's hatred soon hits Ines' hatred . The girl hides the piano key to prevent Ines from playing on it. Anne, who knows this, stands protectively in front of the child. Ines confronts Rudolf about his daughter's behavior. After another confrontation, Dr. Compagnuolo advised his friend to dismiss Anne, but the latter refused. In the meantime, Ines goes to Florence, where she lays flowers in front of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, hoping to have a child soon .

A heavy thunderstorm rages in the night. Ines believes she can hear the late Maria playing the piano from the pavilion. In her desperation, Ines confesses to her husband that she is toying with the idea of ​​returning to Holstein. Rudolf promises her to reopen and prepare the pavilion. Nesi, who overhears the conversation, wants to prevent this and sets a fire in the pavilion. Burn the building and the late mother's wing. Rudolf and Ines believe that lightning has struck there. The next morning Ines said she was pregnant.

Some time later there is a dramatic argument. Anne accuses Ines that Nesi had to go to boarding school and that a portrait of Mary was removed from the salon. Ines quits Anne and throws her out of the house, something that Georg and Pia are also happy about, who are now married and are also expecting a child. While Rudolf is away, Ines and Georg bring little Nesi back from the boarding school. At home, the girl learns that Anne is gone and Ines is expecting a child. To avoid the trouble with the angry Nesi, Ines drives to Dr. Compagnuolo.

The following day Ines and Compagnuolo find out that Nesi has disappeared without a trace. She threatened Georg and Pia with killing herself. In fact, the girl is sitting on a train to Bolzano , where Anne's brother lives. In the train compartment, Nesi meets a priest whom she tells about her hatred of the stepmother. The priest points out to the child the falsehood of his view. It is not for nothing that God gave one of the most beautiful flowers, the viola tricolor , the name pansy. He can convince Nesi to return home and take the expected punishment.

When Rudolf returned from his trip, he made serious accusations to Ines about Nesi and Anne's dismissal. Shortly before the couple learns that Nesi is already on her way home, the heavily pregnant Ines collapses. Almost at the same time as Nesi's arrival, Ines had twins. Ines was hit hard by the delivery and the excitement. Dr. Compagnuolo leaves Nesi in Ines' room, where the two of them have a discussion. The repentant girl now recognizes the twins as siblings and Ines as mother. Ines is recovering. Together with Rudolf, Nesi and the twins, she goes into the well-tended garden, where Nesi picks a pansy.

History of origin

prehistory

Veit Harlan , was very controversial in the post-war period because of his staging of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süss (1940) . In the West German film industry, however, he was still considered a capable and attractive director who regularly received orders. His two scandalous films Anders als du und ich (§ 175) (1957) and Liebe kann sein wie Poison (1958), which he shot for the Berlin producer Gero Wecker , also turned out to be good business. At Wecker's request, Harlan took over the direction of the filming of the film It Was First Love , which had already begun, in the summer of 1958 , as its original director Fritz Stapenhorst was not up to the task. Harlan then completed the project on the condition not to be named as a director.

Harlan then turned to his next film, which Gero Wecker's Arca-Filmproduktion was to produce: I'll carry you on my hands based on the novel Viola Tricolor by Theodor Storm .

Pre-production and script

Harlan's later statement that he only staged commissioned works and "films" in the post-war period hardly does justice to the ambitious project. After all, the director was able to make a color film for the first time since 1954. In Werner Eisbrenner , Harlan also had a renowned film composer at his disposal, which speaks for the prestige of the project as did the announcement in the journal Film-Echo at the time : “Strong business like the great success films Veit Harlans Die goldene Stadt , Immensee u. a. "

After Immensee (1943) and Immortal Beloved (1951), it was the third Theodor Storm film adaptation by the director. Harlan once again played a key role in the script, whose original Viola Tricolor , first published in 1874, shows numerous parallels to his own biography. The plot has also been relocated to the present, with numerous allusions to Harlan's earlier films and personal experiences. Ines Thormälen was played by Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum , while her rival, the nurse Anne, was played by his former wife Hilde Körber .

production

The recordings at Forte di Belvedere , where a stroll was filmed, provided an impressive panorama of Florence.

Shooting began on August 16, 1958. The interior shots were shot in the Arca film studio in Berlin-Pichelsberg . The outdoor shots were taken near Husum , on Sylt , in Florence and the surrounding area, and in West Berlin . For the Filmbauten were Ernst H. Albrecht and Hans Auffenberg responsible. Sinaida Rudow-Brosda designed the costumes. Production manager was Alfred Bittins .

After filming I Will Carry You In My Hands , Harlan received an offer to direct the horror film The Naked and Satan , which he declined. The director, who was in poor health, also shied away from other film work from then on, so that I will carry you on my hands became his last feature film.

Film music

The film music was composed and arranged by Werner Eisbrenner using classical pieces such as Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 . The Berlin Symphony Orchestra played with Inge Wunder on the piano .

reception

publication

I will carry you in my hands has been approved by the FSK for ages 12 and up. The premiere took place on November 7, 1958 in the Gloria Palast in Stuttgart . While the work marketed by Constantin Filmverleih developed into satisfactory to very good business in southern German cinemas by the end of 1958 , the success of the film was otherwise rather moderate.

In the 1990s, the film has also been shown regularly on television appeared when VHS - home video . In February 2007 the film was released on DVD .

Reviews and audience response

Hermine Fürstweger criticized the deviations of the literary original in the film echo . At least she predicted that the film "has a real chance, especially in small towns" and that "the still popular name Kristina Söderbaums will give it the necessary encouragement."

The Catholic Film Service spoke of "a dusty novella by Storm" that was staged in "typical Veit Harlan style". Barbara Haller, who played the role of Nesi, was "a happy cast, quite apart from the cliché of our cute cinema kids."

The lexicon of the international film sums it up accordingly : "Dusty family tragedy, filmed in the colossal and pompous directing style that is Harlan."

The Protestant film observer judged: “If the Arca production, known for their inferior goods […], and the equally well-known Veit Harlan make a film together, then exactly what one expects comes out: the worst kitsch that is currently in the German film industry will be produced."

Even Der Spiegel saw in the work a "verschwiemeltes family drama".

In Paimann's film lists , the film is also described as "not true to the work", but with "symbolic direction in a varied environment". In the case of the “broad masses”, the action would find “quite a sympathy”.

Enno Patalas from Filmkritik magazine even wanted to have recognized that Veit Harlan was using this film as a pretext to “ pursue his aversion to the 'foreign' and his blood cult : the ghost of the hero's dead first wife, the ' Welschen' , conspires with us her child and her scheming relatives against the new, blonde woman. "

Later reviews were much milder. On the occasion of the video publication in 1991 , Georg Seeßlen emphasized the qualities of the film. Dirk Jasper described it as a “heartbreaking film” that Harlan “staged melodramatically”. In his Harlan biography, The Devil's Director , Frank Noack judged that I will carry you on my hands is an "exceptionally well-made film with perfect connections". The color scheme is "consistently subtle and sometimes even astonishing." The work is "a personal, one hundred percent Harlan film and not a carelessly executed commissioned work."

Further film adaptations

  • 1937: Serenade (Direction: Willi Forst )
  • 1972: Vida tricolor (Director: Luis Sánchez Enciso); Spanish television film as part of the series Hora once

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 91 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 88 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2496 meters
  2. ↑ Veit Harlan: In the shadow of my films . Ed .: HC Opfermann. Sigbert Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1966, LCCN  66-025801 .
  3. ^ Film-Echo , November 1, 1958
  4. ↑ a b c Frank Noack: Veit Harlan. "The devil's director" . Belleville Verlag Michael Farin, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-923646-85-2 , p. 380-389 .
  5. ^ Film-Echo , January 3, 1959.
  6. ↑ I will carry you on my hands . ems new media . EAN : 4020974162081
  7. ↑ Hermine Fürstweger: I will carry you on my hands . In: Film-Echo , Wiesbaden, November 26, 1958.
  8. ↑ I will carry you on my hands . In: Catholic Film Service , November 13, 1958.
  9. ↑ I will carry you on my hands. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 12, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ I will carry you on my hands . In: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , November 6, 1958.
  11. ^ Film: New in Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1958, pp. 72 ( online ).
  12. ↑ I will carry you on my hands. (No longer available online.) In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's film lists , No. 2471_2, July 28, 1959, archived from the original on October 12, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.filmarchiv.at
  13. ↑ Enno Patalas : I will carry you on my hands . In: Filmkritik , 9/1958.
  14. ↑ Georg Seeßlen : Detective work on special offers . In: epd Film , 5/1991.
  15. ↑ I'll carry you on my hands ( memento from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper Film Lexicon