Consul Strotthoff
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Consul Strotthoff |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Engel |
| script | Felix Lützkendorf |
| production |
Richard Riedel Herbert Uhlich |
| music | Hans-Otto Borgmann |
| camera |
Fritz Arno Wagner Karl Löb |
| cut | Carl-Otto Bartning |
| occupation | |
and Gerd Vespermann , Willy Maertens , Käte Alving , Lothar Brüning , Claus Peter Lüttgen , Arthur Reinhardt | |
Konsul Strotthoff is a German melodrama from 1954. Directed by Erich Engel , Willy Birgel plays the title role and Inge Egger and Erik Schumann the leading roles.
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The Hamburg consul Strotthoff is an elegant gentleman in his “prime”. Cultivated, respected, very wealthy and with an excellent reputation. One day on a trip to Salzburg, Austria, he met the neat and much younger music student Marianne Roedern, whom he liked very much. She is happy to serve him as a tour guide in the city of Mozart for a small fee, with which she helps to finance her music studies. You get along well and spend a wonderful day. The old consul, who secretly hopes for more, has to realize, however, that Marianne is emotionally bound to something else. Her boyfriend is the somewhat volatile, erratic and idiosyncratic young musician Hans Hellmer, who is aiming for a great career as a conductor.
Consul Strotthoff and Marianne finally separate again without the intention of seeing each other again. When Helmer began his first significant engagement at the State Opera in Hamburg, Marianne followed him to the far north. In the Hanseatic city they meet the consul again, and both begin a romance here. Marianne is torn between the elderly gentleman and her stormy musician. When it almost comes to the separation from Hans, she has to decide. Finally, the festive premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz was a great success thanks to Helmer's performance as a conductor. Marianne now knows that her place will be at the young artist's side.
Production notes
The shooting of Konsul Strotthoff took place in the spring of 1954 in Salzburg (Hellbrunn Palace, Festspielhaus, Mozarteum) and Hamburg (exterior shots); the premiere was on July 15, 1954 in the Hamburg Passagekino.
Dietrich von Theobald and Dieter Wehrand were in charge of production, Otto Meyer served Erich Engel as assistant director. Emil Hasler designed the film structures implemented by Walter Kutz , Manon Hahn the costumes. Bruno Balz wrote the lyrics for Hans-Otto Borgmann's music.
Reviews
"It is deplorable that Erich Engel, one of the directing masters of German films, has been polishing such a dry fairy tale."
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Conventional love drama with a restorative tendency, which offers its mendacious philosophy of life with sour seriousness."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consul Strotthoff in Der Spiegel 31/1954
- ↑ Consul Strotthoff. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Consul Strotthoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Consul Strotthoff at filmportal.de