Comrade Hedwig

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Movie
Original title Comrade Hedwig
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year none (1945 unfinished)
Rod
Director Gerhard Lamprecht
script Toni Huppertz
with the collaboration of Luise Ullrich and Ulrich Erfurth
production Karl Ritter for UFA film art (Berlin)
music Ernst Erich Buder
camera Ekkehard Kyrath
occupation

and in other roles that cannot be assigned by name: Hans Hermann Schaufuss , Karl Hannemann , Lilo Becker , Alfred Maack , Erich Fiedler , Herbert Gernot , Friedrich Petermann , Hannelore Hofmann , Knut Hartwig , Ewald Wenck , Gertrud Wolle

Kamerad Hedwig is a German feature film from 1945. Luise Ullrich plays the title role, directed by Gerhard Lamprecht . The film was no longer released and shown in the cinema. As a persistent film of propaganda, it may only be shown to the public today after prior information on contemporary history.

action

Hedwig Schulz has been a widow for a year now. Her husband, the engine driver Mathias Schulz, was killed in an accident. With her underage son Werner, she moves in with her father-in-law, a block unit manager, and runs the household for him. With the job of a railway assistant , she now earns a little extra money. Little by little, Hedwig overcomes her grief, which she recently had overly under control. In Fritz Beier, like her late husband, the locomotive driver, she met a decent, significantly older colleague who soon asked for her hand. She wants to be a good mother substitute for his four motherless children. A little later, Mathias' brother Karl arrives at the station, who is supposed to stand in for a colleague who is sick. Hedwig recognizes Mathias in him in several ways and becomes increasingly restless around him. Karl doesn't fare very differently, but he is deeply disappointed when he hears about the upcoming wedding between Hedwig and Fritz.

One day, at the last second, Karl saved Hedwig's son from an approaching express train. The emotional tension between Karl and Hedwig then becomes so intense that Karl decides to leave the terrain as soon as possible. In order not to be further tempted, he even asks his colleague Beier to bring the planned wedding forward. After all, Hedwig and Karl can no longer hide their feelings for each other. He urges her to tell Fritz about both of them, but Hedwig is unable to break the heart of the decent bridegroom. And so Fritz Beier found out secondhand about the affair between Hedwig and Karl. When Fritz tries to confront Hedwig, he only meets Karl, who tells him the whole truth. Both begin to fight. When Fritz finally tries to argue with Hedwig, he finds her on an emergency mission: Hedwig is in the process of uncoupling a burning freight wagon from the rest to prevent a catastrophe. Fritz helps her and puts himself in mortal danger. When the work is done, he releases Hedwig for Karl.

Production notes

The shooting (exterior shots) of Kamerad Hedwig began on September 6, 1944 and ended on November 15, 1944. Exterior shots / station scenes were shot in Thüngersheim / Würzburg district. Studio recordings followed in the spring of 1945. At the end of the war, the film had been shot for less than ten days. There was no world premiere. At the end of 1944, completion was forecast for May 31, 1945. The total cost was estimated at around 1.25 million RM.

The buildings were designed by Herbert Kirchhoff , whose first independent film architecture was this. Production group leader Karl Ritter was also production manager.

The film shows some of the last shots of the previously undestroyed city of Würzburg , which was the victim of a heavy bomb attack by British RAF combat units on March 16, 1945 . The shooting teams of UFA and Terra ( we both loved Katharina ), who were working almost simultaneously on site in Würzburg, were housed in the same hotel.

In Kamerad Hedwig , the Reich German feature film took up “the subject of the working woman for the last time”.

criticism

Since the film never saw a performance, there are no reviews.

literature

  • Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films 13th year 1944/45. P. 173 (032.45), Berlin 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 13th year 1944/45, 032.45, p. 173, Berlin 2002
  2. ↑ Boguslaw Drewniak: 'Der deutsche Film 1938–1945', a total overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 480.
  3. ↑ German sound films, 13th year 1944/45, 084.45, p 254, Berlin 2002
  4. ↑ Drewniak, p. 266.

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