Everyone (1961)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anyone |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| script | based on the play of the same name (1911) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
| production | Otto Dürer |
| music | Ernst Krenek |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Paula Dworak |
| occupation | |
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Jedermann is an Austro-German feature film from 1961 by Gottfried Reinhardt based on the play of the same name by Hugo von Hofmannsthal with Walther Reyer in the title role.
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This film version of the Salzburg Festival performance adheres closely to the literary original.
When God sees that he is no longer valued on earth, he decides to remind people of his power again through death. He tells death to go to everyone's house and call him before divine judgment. One day everyone orders the bailiff to bring him a sack of money so that he can pay for the property he wants to buy. He wants to create a pleasure garden there, which he wants to give to his passion. On the way there everyone meets a poor neighbor who asks him for money. But everyone gives him only one shilling. When the neighbor appeals to his Christian faith and wants more money because he was once rich himself, everyone sends him away.
Shortly afterwards, he meets one of his debtors who asks him to tear up his note of debt. But everyone refuses to do this and has him locked up. Everyone knows no mercy, but because the debtor's wife is crying so much, he agrees to pay her and her children maintenance and board. After the meeting everyone loses the desire to visit the property for the pleasure garden and he decides to go to his fanatics. But hardly anyone leaves the house when they meet their mother. As is often the case, this tells him how he behaves towards God. As soon as his mother has left him, he comes to meet him to pick him up for the festival that has been prepared for him. At the festival, however, everyone feels weak and sick and has strange appearances. No one can hear the ringing of bells that everyone hears. When he suddenly says he hears someone calling his name, they think he has a fever.
But everyone has to do with the cruel reality. When he looks around, an unknown man stands behind him, who reveals himself to be dead and asks him to get ready for the last path. Only now does everyone become aware of his bad character, and he begs Death to give him only a short period of time so that he can find a friend who will come with him to God's judgment. After asking for a long time, death gives him an hour's respite. First he asks his good friend, the journeyman, if he would like to do him a favor, because he has to travel a long way. The journeyman is ready to do him any favor, but when he hears that he should accompany him to the divine judgment, he refuses. The two cousins of everyone and his servants act hardly differently. Since he now feels abandoned by everyone, he at least wants to take his money with him into eternity. But Mammon comes out of his money chest and does not agree to go with him.
Now everyone is utterly lonely and close to despair. Then he hears a soft voice in the background calling his name. When he turns around, he sees a frail woman who tells him that she is his “good deed” and would like to accompany him to the afterlife. But it is too weak because he has always neglected it so much. But she is ready to ask her sister, the faith, for it. Faith now points out to everyone the infinite love of God and advises him to ask the Lord for grace. Everyone seizes the last hope of salvation and tries to find God again after years of disbelief, with a monk helping him. In the meantime the devil comes to fetch the guilty soul of everyone he is sure of and to drive to hell with it, but he has to see to his annoyance that it was snatched from him by the grace of God. A little later everyone returns completely clean and can now appear before God's judgment seat with a clear conscience, accompanied by faith and good works.
Production notes
Jedermann was made during the Salzburg Festival in 1961. The film premiered simultaneously in Vienna and Salzburg on November 24, 1961. The German premiere took place on December 21, 1961.
Herbert Janeczka was the chief sound engineer.
Reviews
"Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play of the rich everyone whom death calls before God's judgment, as a staging of the Salzburg Festival in 1961 in a remarkable film reproduction."
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Except for the location expanded by Salzburg motifs and the choreography as well as the bizarre costumes of the festival, an accurate film reproduction."
Individual evidence
- ^ Everyone in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Everyone in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from May 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Everyone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Everyone at filmportal.de