Fight (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | struggle |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Schönfelder |
| script |
Frank Arnau Heinz Gordon Franz Roswalt Max Wallner |
| production | Haro van Peski for Majestic Film GmbH |
| music | Marc Roland |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Alwin Elling |
| occupation | |
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Kampf is an extremely rare example of a German racing car film. Professional racing driver Manfred von Brauchitsch played the main role, it was supposed to be his only excursion with a regular film role in front of the cinema camera. The 1932 film was directed by Erich Schönfelder .
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Robert Wenck is a well-known racing driver who goes to Freiburg to take part in a car race starting there . He is really looking forward to the race that will lead through the nearby mountains, because it is here that he will meet his favorite opponent Kurt Harder. This ongoing eponymous battle between the two rivals has not changed their friendship. Wenck and Harder meet during training and also exchange private words. Wenck learns that his friend Harder recently married. Robert is happy to accept Kurt's invitation to a seaside resort where the newlywed Eva is currently staying.
During the race, Kurt had a technical breakdown that forced him to give up. Wenck can then decide the race for himself in a daring drive. Harder has to go on to Italy and for this reason asks his old friend to drive up to the seaside resort and look after Harder's wife Eva a little. Robert is amazed when he sees who Eva Harder is. It is none other than its former flame. For the sake of his racing sport, Wenck had once neglected Eva, so that she reoriented herself. Now that the two meet again, the old feelings for each other break open again. Harder himself does not know anything about the previous relationship between the two, but is discovered through an old photograph with Robert and Eva that the two probably had something together. He immediately returns to Germany and drives to his wife. He was very dissatisfied when he saw Wenck return home from a car ride with Eva.
Kurt Harder now believes that Wenck wants to bring back the lost love and declares their friendship over. It wasn't until some time later, during a race on the Nürburgring , that the two opponents meet again. A dogged fight ensues, and Robert, who has worked his way to the top with great effort, has an accident in his racing car and crashes into a rock face. Kurt immediately rushes to him and frees the enemy from the burning wreck. His human commitment is rewarded, despite the loss of time, Kurt Harder can decide the race for himself and is on the podium. Before the award ceremony can take place, he and his wife visit Wenck at his sick bed. Kurt puts one hand of Eve into the other of Roberts, signaling that he is ready to do without his wife, as the two obviously still have a lot in common.
Production notes
Kampf was created in just over two weeks between September 5th and 20th, 1932 on Berlin's AVUS , in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Nürburgring, as well as on the UFA outdoor area in Neubabelsberg . The premiere took place on December 20, 1932 in Berlin's UT Kurfürstendamm theater.
The Dutchmen Haro van Peski and John Jonkheer van Lennep founded the production company Majestic Film GmbH in Berlin in 1931 . Kampf was her first independent production after the film Mein Leopold , which was made as a co-production with Orplid-Film GmbH. Bob Stoll took over the production management. The film structures were created by Artur Günther and Willi A. Herrmann , Karl Löb served as camera assistant, Eigil Wangøe was a still photographer.
Two songs were played: Tonight will be right! and we want to be good friends . The Ufa Jazz Orchestra and the Gerhard Hoffmann band played.
For the director Schönfelder, who died in 1933, and the leading actress Evelyn Holt , who was no longer allowed to film when the Nazis came to power, Kampf was the last film.
criticism
The Österreichische Film-Zeitung called Kampf a "successful combination of car racing sensations, full of tension, love and humor" and saw the production as a film "that meets the public's great interest in car racing."
Web links
- Battle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fight at filmportal.de