Midsummer Night (1956)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Midsummer Night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16, shortened 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script |
Ilse Lotz-Dupont , Tibor Yost |
| production | Delos Film, Berlin ( Gerhard Frank , Bernhard F. Schmidt ) |
| music | Willy Mattes |
| camera | Oskar Schnirch |
| cut | Martha Dübber |
| occupation | |
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Johannisnacht is a German homeland film by Harald Reinl from 1956 based on a novella by Werner Hill . The main roles are cast with Willy Birgel and Hertha Feiler as well as Erik Schumann and Sonja Sutter .
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The widowed Baron Christian von Hergeth, lord of Gut Ulmenried in the Bavarian Alps , married the aspiring opera singer Martina Lynn shortly after the end of the Second World War. When their daughter Maria, called Micky, was a few months old, Martina was given a one-season engagement at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In order not to spoil this career opportunity for his wife, Christian agrees with a heavy heart to stay at home alone with the child for several months. When Martina extended her stay in New York, however, Christian divorced in disappointment, Martina forbade any contact with the child, raised Micky alone and left her in the belief that her mother had died.
Ten years later: Micky does not live with her father in the manor house to cure a lung disease, but with the dairymaid Liesl high in the mountains in an alpine hut . Martina Lynn visits the Alm several times behind the baron's back and with Liesl's knowledge and makes friends with her daughter, to whom she only reveals her true identity after various visits and for the given occasion. Meanwhile, Christian has taken on the young expellee Irene Hofmann, whose grandfather was the landowner in Silesia. Both are sympathetic from the start. While Irene sees Christian as a father figure, the baron falls in love with the woman, who is decades younger, and proposes marriage to her , which she accepts out of gratitude and a sense of duty.
Irene is introduced to Lorenz, Christian's adult son from his first marriage, who works as a university lecturer in Munich . Both develop romantic feelings for each other, which they repress with consideration for the situation. When the engagement was to be celebrated on Midsummer Night with burning midsummer fires , Irene suddenly disappeared. Lorenz finds her and confesses his love to her. Irene explains her decision to him: On the one hand, she could not marry Christian because she loved Lorenz, but on the other hand she could not build her happiness on the misfortune of Lorenz's father. This dilemma ultimately dissolves in favor, as Mickey manages to bring her parents back together. A few weeks after Lorenz and Irene's wedding, Christian and Martina also go to the registry office again to the cheers of the villagers.
Production notes and publication
The film was produced by Delos-Produktionsgesellschaft mbH (Berlin). The shooting time lasted from July 9th to September 7th, 1956. The interior shots were taken in the Hamburg-Wandsbek studio , the exterior shots in Mittenwald and on the outdoor area of Bavaria Film in Geiselgasteig . The castle Neubeuer in Upper Bavaria served as the fictional manor house Ulmenried . The working title was Star of My Life , the world premiere took place on October 26, 1956 in the Universum in Stuttgart, after the film had received an age rating of 16 years and over on October 19, 1956 (FSK No. 13124 / K); a version shortened by ten minutes was released in 1991 from the age of 6 (FSK No. 13124-a / K).
Reviews
"Director Dr. Harald Reinl has staged an erotic triangle on Eastmancolor, which is decorated by the melodrama conflicts that are common in German films. The film primarily speculates on Willy Birgel's audience appeal . Because of the photogenic mountain backdrop, this actor moves as a seven-pointed landowner this time in Bavaria : on horseback, on the valance of a befitting carriage, in the opera box, in the storm-torn forest, in the spacious castle of his ancestors and in the phase of the second spring. "
"A typical German Heimatfilm with feigned significance."
Web links
- St. John's Eve in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- St. John's Night at filmportal.de
- Johannisnacht movie poster at filmposter-archiv.de
- Midsummer Night Illustrated Film Stage No. 3485 (Cover picture from left to right: Willy Birgel, Sonja Sutter, Hertha Feiler)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films - Harald Reinl
- ↑ Alt-Neubeurer Nachrichten, No. 56, July 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , P. 22, accessed January 22, 2012.
- ↑ St. John's Night on spio.de, accessed January 22, 2012.
- ↑ The mirror 50/1956 of 12 December 1956 accessed 22 January 2012 found.
- ^ Midsummer Night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 16, 2016 .
