Labyrinth (1959)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | labyrinth |
| Country of production |
Germany Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Thiele |
| script | Rolf Thiele, Gregor von Rezzori based on the novel Restless is my heart by Gladys Baker |
| production | Walter Tjaden |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Anneliese Schönnenbeck |
| occupation | |
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Labyrinth , also known as the Labyrinth of Passions , is a German-Italian fictional film from 1959 by Rolf Thiele with Nadja Tiller and Peter van Eyck in the leading roles.
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Georgia Gale is young, beautiful, intellectual ... and she drinks. After a serious crisis, she began to pick up the bottle in an uncontrolled manner and is now in danger of falling victim to the alcoholism that is a tradition in her family. In order to be treated psychotherapeutically for this reason, she is admitted to a luxurious sanatorium in Switzerland. Here is the realm of chief physician Dr. de Lattre, to whom she cannot build a deeper trust, but which is absolutely essential for the success of the therapist. For this reason, she is not ready to open herself up. This makes it impossible to research the cause of their narcissistic nature and the reason for their decline.
Georgia continues to play a role here, too, fooling itself, flirting with an alleged longing for death and taking refuge in a sudden religiosity. She only gains confidence in her fellow patient Ron Stevens, who is also treated in the private sanatorium, and establishes contact with him. But then an event happens that shakes the inner walls of Georgia's walled-in self: The young nymphomaniac patient Marjorie, who is turned away by her when she tries to advances, kills herself in front of her eyes. Deeply shocked, Georgia begins to understand that there is content and responsibility to a full life. She no longer wants to close herself off to therapeutic healing that could promise an exit from her previous life. After her successful treatment, the beautiful patient leaves the clinic, determined to start a new life.
Production notes
Labyrinth was created in April and May 1959 in Munich and the surrounding area and was premiered on September 3, 1959 at the Universum Cinema in Düsseldorf.
The film structures carried out by Peter Röhrig were designed by Gabriel Pellon . Theo Nischwitz took care of the special effects, Rolf Kästel served as a simple cameraman under head cameraman Klaus von Rautenfeld . Ursula Stutz designed the costumes.
The silver film tape went to Nadja Tiller and Klaus von Rautenfeld in 1960.
Reviews
The Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 17, 1959 summed up: Once again Thiele proves to be "an unsurpassed specialist in hard brilliance, sultry coolness, cultivated hysteria."
Paimann's film lists summed up: "A German ' snake pit ', thoroughly clearing the soul and with a believable interpreter, impersonal-academic but careful presentation, leaving the average viewer uninvolved and only interesting for lovers of clinical material."
"... a tangled treatise on a luxury sanatorium ..."
“A 'Zeitgeist' study that was excellently photographed and played very subtly in the main role. Formally, Rolf Thiele tries to create a sophisticated atmosphere that gives the film a cold and fascinating shine. "
Web links
- Labyrinth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Labyrinth at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Labyrinth in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Labyrinth in Der Spiegel 41/1951, p. 108
- ↑ Labyrinth in the Lexicon of International Films
