Written in the wind
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Written in the wind |
| Original title | Written on the wind |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Douglas Sirk |
| script | George Zuckerman |
| production |
Albert Zugsmith for Universal Pictures |
| music | Frank Skinner |
| camera | Russell Metty |
| cut | Russell F. Schoengarth |
| occupation | |
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Written in the Wind is an American film from 1956 . The melodrama , directed by Douglas Sirk, is based on the novel In den Wind written (original title: Written on the Wind ) by Robert Wilder .
action
The Hadley family of Texas made heavy riches from oil. Father Jasper Hadley raised his children with Mitch Wayne, a friend's son. Mitch Wayne comes from a poorer background than Hadley children Kyle and Marylee. Kyle is a notorious drinker and playboy. Marylee, who has been in love with Mitch since childhood but cannot get him, leads a flighty life. Mitch, on the other hand, is a mature and responsible man who always looks after the family and the company as a "big brother".
Kyle and Mitch meet secretary Lucy Moore. They both fall in love with her. Kyle pushes himself in front of Mitch and tries to seduce Lucy at first, but when she rejects him, he marries her on the spot. He is very happy and even manages not to drink for a year. Meanwhile, old Hadley suffers a serious heart attack and dies, troubled by his daughter's easy life .
Kyle longs for a child. When this does not work at first, he and Lucy have a medical examination. Although the tests are still ongoing, Kyle gets into the idea that he is impotent, which causes him to start drinking again. Mitch, on the other hand, continues to love Lucy and decides to go to Iran for another oil company . The jealous Marylee persuades her brother that Mitch is having a relationship with Lucy. When Kyle does get pregnant, Kyle believes that Mitch is the father. While drunk, he beats Lucy, who then has a miscarriage. Mitch throws him out of his own house and in anger threatens to kill him.
Kyle, totally drunk, comes back at night to kill Mitch. However, he learns from Mitch that he was actually the father of Lucy's child. Marylee tries to steal the gun from her brother. A shot goes off that kills Kyle.
There is a hearing of witnesses in court. Mitch is suspected of killing Kyle because of his threats. Marylee had threatened Mitch if he didn't marry her, she would incriminate him in court. However, she changes her mind and confesses the truth in court. Nothing stands in the way of the love between Mitch and Lucy. The two leave together, and the desperate Marylee is left alone in her family's now empty house.
background
Originally, Rock Hudson wanted to play the role of Kyle Hadley, but the studio feared for its star's image and gave the role to Robert Stack. Dorothy Malone, who up to this point had only played innocent young women in most cases, had her hair dyed blonde for the film and changed her image to the role of the nymphomaniac Marylee .
In the 2011/12 season, the play The Dream of Hollywood by Clemens Meyer was shown in the Centraltheater Leipzig , in which two storylines are told in parallel. The story of the Hadley family is kept alongside the protagonists' entanglements.
synchronization
The synchronized version was created in 1957 by Berliner Synchron , directed by Volker Becker, based on a dialogue book by Fritz A. Koeniger .
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Mitch Wayne | Rock Hudson | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Lucy Moore Hadley | Lauren Bacall | Ursula Traun |
| Kyle Hadley | Robert Stack | Hans Dieter Zeidler |
| Marylee Hadley | Dorothy Malone | Inge Estate |
| Mr. Jasper Hadley | Robert Keith | Hans Hessling |
| Biff Miley | Grant Williams | Herbert Stass |
| Dan Willis, barman | Robert J. Wilke | Arnold Marquis |
| Mr. Wayne, Mitch's father | Harry Shannon | Alfred Haase |
| Dr. Paul Cochrane | Edward Platt | Klaus Miedel |
| Roy Carter | John Larch | Hans W. Hamacher |
Reviews
Much like most of Sirk's films, Written on the Wind received little enthusiasm from critics of the 1950s. Bosley Crowther criticized the New York Times on January 12, 1957 for the fact that the complications between the characters were never clear and that Stack and Malone's acting was absurd. However, due to the re-evaluation of Sirk's work from the 1960s onwards, the film found approval from film critics in later years. For Rotten Tomatoes , 17 of the 21 reviews are positive, giving the film a positive rating of 81%.
“With a sensitive feeling for human shallows and difficult relationship constellations, Douglas Sirk has succeeded in creating a grippingly pathological family story with an astonishingly deep perspective for the 1950s. With its flowery to almost shrill color aesthetics, its superbly acting ensemble and its symbolic compositions, "In den Wind" is convincing as an innovatively staged, melancholic melodrama for the time, the explosive subject of which is still burning today. "
“Effective colportage in a luxurious setting; the alleged tragedy of the melodrama is, however, not very believable. "
“Douglas Sirk's family painting from 1956 is painted with a spatula. The gestures are exuberant, every dialogue a life confession, colors scream at you. But Written on the Wind is one of the best that the Hollywood melodrama of the 50s had to offer. "
Awards
Dorothy Malone received an Oscar in 1957 for her portrayal of Marylee Hadley in the category "Best Supporting Role". Also nominated were Robert Stack for Best Supporting Actor and Victor Young and Sammy Cahn for Best Movie Song (the song Written on the Wind heard at the beginning of the film ).
literature
- Robert Wilder : ... written in the wind. Roman (Original title: Written on the wind ). German by Fritz Helke . Schneekluth, Darmstadt 1960, 477 pp.
- Sierek, Karl: Sweet fainting. Fate and Society in Douglas Sirk's WRITTEN ON THE WIND. In: Cargnelli, Christian / Palm, Michael (ed.): And the sun rises again and again. Texts on the melodramatic in the film. Vienna, 1994. pp. 131-145. ISBN 3-901196-03-X
Web links
- Written on the Wind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5671:sirk-the-east-clemens-meyer-und-sascha-hawemann-kreuzen-hollywood-mit-dem-leipziger-osten&catid = 38 & Itemid = 40
- ↑ Arne Kaul: In the Wind written on synchrondatenbank.de. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
- ^ Movie Review - Screen: Sad Psychosis; 'Written on the Wind' Opens at Capitol. - NYTimes.com. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Written on the Wind (Rotten Tomatoes). Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Marie Anderson on kino-zeit.de
- ↑ Written in the wind. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Jens Hinrichsen on filmzentrale.com