come back

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Movie
Original title come back
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alfred Braun
script Wolf Neumeister
production Divina-Film, Munich
( Max Hüske )
music Herbert Trantow
Robert Stolz
Dino Olivieri
camera Bruno Stephan
cut Erwin Marno
occupation

Come back is a German fiction film in black and white from 1953 by Alfred Braun . The main roles are cast with Winnie Markus , Rudolf Prack and Hans Stüwe . Wolf Neumeister wrote the script . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film first hit the cinemas on December 4, 1953 in Stuttgart.

action

Michael Larsen is a young organist at a church in a town on the Lower Elbe. In his free time he composed an oratorio for which he is now looking for a publisher. Because this does not work out, his friend Sabine advises him to try it temporarily in the area of ​​the light muse. His first title was so successful that he was invited by a French radio station. In Paris he met the pop singer Titine Clomord. They both fall in love. When Titine goes on tour in the Netherlands, she is accompanied by Michael and his friend Gert Haßler, whom he met again in Paris. The two comrades soon discover that the tour leader is a wanted diamond smuggler. Michael and Gert are mistakenly mistaken for accomplices. When they are about to be arrested at the border, they manage to escape. Her path now leads her to the Foreign Legion . They spend painful years of deprivation in an African desert.

A terrible time has dawned for Sabine at home. After the police found out about her relationship with Michael, they are also looking for the missing gemstones in her apartment. Sabine learns that Michael was shot while trying to escape. After a while she marries her old friend Christian Frisius, a music publisher. One day she discovers in her files the lost record of the song “Come back!”, Which Martin composed just for her many years ago. Her husband moved the song, and soon there will be a worldwide success.

Several years later, Michael returns to Europe. He was surprised to find that his song, which was not intended for publication, is played almost everywhere. He visits the publisher and learns from him that Sabine has meanwhile become his wife. During a discussion with her, he tries to win her over again. However, Sabine decides for her husband.

Michael Larsen's oratorio will be premiered, conducted by himself. Sabine and Christian Frisius sit in the audience. The work is a complete success.

additions

The film was produced in the Hamburg studios Bendestorf and Wandsbek. The outdoor shots were taken in the Hanseatic city of Stade on the Lower Elbe and on the Rhine. The buildings were designed by the film architects Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter . Teddy Turai contributed the costumes. Herbert Trantow was responsible for the music . In addition to his own composition of the slow waltz “My heart was a book”, he also edited the songs “There is a linden tree in front of my father's house” by Robert Stolz based on a text by Bruno Hardt-Warden and the French “J'attendrai” by Dino Olivieri based on the German text “Come back” by Ralph Maria Siegel . Trantow also directed the film orchestra.

criticism

The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "Melodrama of penetrating sentimentality with hollow pathos and banal dialogues."

source

Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 348
  2. Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2064