John Glückstadt
| Movie | |
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| Original title | John Glückstadt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulf Miehe |
| script | Ulf Miehe Walter Fritzsche |
| production | Heinz Angermeyer |
| music | Eberhard Schoener |
| camera | Jürgen Juerges |
| cut | Heidi Genée |
| occupation | |
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John Glückstadt is a German feature film from 1974 based on the novella Ein Doppelganger by Theodor Storm . Directed by Ulf Miehe play Dieter Laser and Marie-Christine Barrault the leading roles. The German premiere took place on July 1, 1975 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival . The film ran nationwide on August 22, 1975.
action
Northern Germany, mid-19th century. The unemployed John Hansen, who is discharged from the military, takes part in a burglary out of necessity together with the crook Wenzel. Hansen is caught by the police and brought to justice. The verdict: six years in prison. After serving his sentence in the Glückstadt prison , he returned to his small, northern German hometown and from then on was only called John Glückstadt by the residents. Hansen does odd jobs and gets to know the unskilled worker Hanna. The two get married and will soon have a child.
But the couple will not be happy; poverty is too great and both are cut by hostile societies because of their low social status and past. When Hanna reminds her husband of his past one day, a heated argument ensues. Hansen hits his wife so miserably that she falls and dies shortly afterwards. However, Hansen's neighbor helps him cover up the cause of death. John Hansen is now trying to make ends meet with his small child. But the daughter is taken away from him and put in an orphanage. Hansen then decides to do an act of desperation: he wants to kidnap his own child and flee with him to America, to start over there and build a future for himself and his daughter untouched by the past.
Awards
The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 1975 .
The Film Award winning actor Dieter Laser and director Ulf Miehe.
criticism
In the FAZ it was said that John Glückstadt was “clearly designed for the cinema in terms of its aesthetics, which has already become a remarkable rarity in Germany” and, despite all the individual criticism of Miehe's director, summed up: “Nevertheless, this has become a quite remarkable film whose melancholy black and white meets the atmosphere that we know from Fassbinder's “Effi Briest”. "
The lexicon of the international film wrote: "The film , with its motivations and feelings reserved, impresses with its sense of style, urgency and excellent interpreters."
In Kay Weniger's Das Großes Personenlexikon der Film , the main actor's performance was praised: "Already in his debut work," John Glückstadt "after Theodor Storm, Laser showed himself to be an extraordinarily mature character actor."
Web links
- John Glückstadt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Glückstadt at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Wiegand's article Young German film on target? , in: FAZ of July 5, 1975
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 4, p. 1891. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 594.