Immensee (1943)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Immensee |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Veit Harlan |
| script | Veit Harlan Alfred Braun , Woina Felix |
| production | Veit Harlan (production group) for UFA |
| music | Wolfgang Zeller |
| camera | Bruno Mondi |
| cut | Friedrich Karl von Puttkamer |
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Immensee (subtitle: Ein deutsches Volkslied ) is a German feature film by Veit Harlan from 1943. The film is based freely on the novel of the same name by Theodor Storm .
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Reinhart Torsten is an aspiring musician. He leaves his small, sleepy hometown Immensee to visit the conservatory in Hamburg . He also leaves Elisabeth Uhl behind, with whom he had a happy childhood and youth in Immensee. Although both are aware of their deep feelings for each other, one day Reinhart stops writing to her, which is very troubling to Elisabeth. One day Reinhart returns to Immensee to celebrate his birthday there. For the two of them everything seems to be the same again, and one day Elisabeth decides to visit him in Hamburg, although both of them, Erich Juergens, have long since begun to show hesitant interest in Elisabeth. But Elisabeth has promised her loyalty to Reinhart.
In the big city, Elisabeth quickly feels a stranger, and a beautiful young woman sleeps in his bed she doesn't know. While her boyfriend is studying for the exams, Reinhart's landlady explains to her succinctly that this is not unusual in the life of the young studiosus. Elisabeth returns to Immensee disappointed. Meanwhile, Erich finally takes heart and confesses his love to Elisabeth. Both marry and after the death of Erich's father move to his stately farm. Elisabeth's heart is still attached to Reinhart, but her marital promise binds her faithfully and firmly to Erich.
Reinhart Torsten has since made a career. He received a scholarship for a conducting school in Rome and only returned to Immensee after a long three years. Although he intends to live with his parents, he finally accepts his friend Erich's invitation to stay at his stud. When he sees Elisabeth, he tries to convince her to leave Erich and to come with him into the distance, into the big, wide world. Even if Elisabeth has not yet completely gotten rid of Reinhart, she now rejects him - even though Erich is ready not to stand in the way of her happiness. Only now does Elisabeth begin to realize where she belongs and what meaning the word home, i.e. Immensee, has in her life.
Production notes
The shooting took place from June 26th to the end of October 1942 (exterior shots) and from January to April 1943 (studio shots). The filming locations were in Rome the Roman Forum , the ruins of the Maxentius basilica , the squares in front of the Palatine Hill and St. Peter's Basilica and in Germany Eutin and Plön with Holstein Switzerland , Gut Stendorf and Hamburg . The studio recordings were made in the Ufa town of Babelsberg . For cost reasons, the film was produced at the same time as the drama sacrifice , the shooting of which began two months later. Both films were directed by Harlan with Raddatz and Söderbaum in the leading roles.
The film structures were designed by Erich Zander and Karl Machus . The production line had Erich Holder . Gertrud Steckler designed the costumes, Heinz Martin provided the sound.
The vocal parts come from the Italian Germana Paolieri (dubbed by the soprano Erna Berger ) as well as from Käthe Dyckhoff and Kristina Söderbaum .
As Bogusław Drewniak reports in his standard work "The German Film 1938–1945", the following fees were paid:
- Veit Harlan received 80,000 RM as a director
- In his role as co-screenwriter, he received an additional RM 25,000. Co-author Alfred Braun was rewarded 11,000 RM
- Kurt Meisel received a fee of 3,000 RM in his role as assistant director
- Lead actress and Harlan wife Kristina Söderbaum received 60,000 RM.
- Leading actor Carl Raddatz earned a fee of RM 20,000.
- The composer Wolfgang Zeller was rewarded with 10,000 RM
The total cost was RM 2,067,000. Immensee was one of the commercially most successful films of the Third Reich.
The premiere took place on December 8, 1943 in two Hamburg cinemas. The first performance in Berlin was on December 17, 1943 in two cinemas in the capital. The film censorship released the film for young people aged 14 and over.
In 1943 Immensee received the Nazi ratings of "artistically valuable", "popularly valuable" and "culturally valuable". It was the fifth of 13 color films of the German Reich shot between 1939 and 1945 in Agfacolor .
By the end of the war in 1945, the film was also shown in several Scandinavian countries. The film ran for twelve weeks in Zurich at the beginning of 1944, and Immensee was shown in Turkey that same year .
The Harlan-Braun team was entrusted with another Storm adaptation, Pole Poppenspäler , at the end of 1944 . This film under the title ' The Puppeteer' , started on November 10, 1944 in Meldorf , Schleswig-Holstein , had to be canceled in the spring of 1945.
In June 1945 Immensee was banned from performing by the Allied military authorities in Germany.
The Immensee -Stoff was newly filmed in 1956 under the title Was die Schwalbe sang by Géza von Bolváry , again in 1989 as Immensee by Klaus Gendries .
The Murnau Foundation had the sacrificial passage and Immensee digitally restored in 2016. Both films were released in restored versions on September 22, 2016 on DVD and Blu-ray.
Kristina Söderbaum's baby is the future actor and director Vadim Glowna .
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films wrote: "Cinematographic drama by Veit Harlan, conscious of effects and popularized in the spirit of the times".
In the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger at the beginning of 1944 one could read: “With the color film 'Immensee' after the first Agfa-Color films, such an improvement can be noted that the viewer is often not critically aware of the color for a long time, and that is a good sign. Veit Harlan and Alfred Braun wrote the script for 'Immensee' together, and with remarkable empathy they awaken the lyrical, delicate and elegiac mood of the Husum poet's first novella. "
See also
Web links
- Immensee in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Immensee at filmportal.de
- Immensee at the Murnau Foundation
- Project: Restoration of Immensee at the Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rediscovered: sacrifice filmportal.de, accessed on 10.10.17
- ^ Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945. A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 494
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films. 12th year 1942/43. Berlin 2001, p. 164
- ↑ according to Drewniak, p. 631. Deutsche Tonfilme 1942/43, on the other hand, mentions on p. 165 only income of only 455,000 RM until May 1944.
- ↑ Restoration of Immensee and sacrificial passage , Murnau Foundation, accessed on October 10, 2017
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 4, S. 1780. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Quoted from Bogusław Drewniak: Der deutsche Film 1938–1945. A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 675