Love, passion and sorrow

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Movie
Original title Love, passion and sorrow
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1943
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Josef Alfred Holman
Walter Janssen (dialogue director)
script Kurt Heuser
production Prague movie
music Georg Sirnker
camera Karel Degl
cut Ferdinand Weintraub
occupation

Love, Passion and Sorrow (reference title: Anna, die Magd ) is a German homeland film from 1943, directed by Josef Alfred Holman . Karin Hardt plays Therese, the daughter of the maid Anna played by Hilde Sessak . Richard Häussler plays Paul, the man who once owned Anna's heart and Waldemar Leitgeb a generation later the man who woos Therese.

The film goes back to a story by the Czech writer Jan Drda .

action

Anna, who works as a maid, is wanted by two very different men. However, her heart belongs to Paul from the start. When the latter leaves for America after a bad argument with his rival, Anna is left alone and pregnant. Left entirely on her own, she brings up her daughter Therese, who loves her mother with great love. When Anna dies in an accident, Therese is devastated. To gain some distance, she goes back to the village where her mother once worked as a maid.

In the small patch, Therese quickly turns the head of almost every man, which leads to quarrels not only among and between the marriageable girls in the village. Therese, however, is not interested in any of the male villagers, as her mother made her promise on her deathbed not to get involved with a man, that would only bring bad luck. She only trusts the young painter Heinrich and maintains a friendship with him. Similar to her mother, there is another man involved with Therese who has set his mind on making her his wife. Konrad is the richest young farmer in the village and not used to being turned away. He has just sold the "Gutshof von Eichen", which belongs to him, to a stranger who has commissioned a complete, costly renovation. From a former maternal friend of Anna, who runs the inn in the village, in which Therese also helps, the stranger learns that Therese is the daughter of the woman who was living with her at the time. Thereupon he offers stranger Therese a well-paid job as a housekeeper and emphasizes that she will have it very well with him. Therese accepts.

Again there is a solid argument at a village festival, the celebration of the harvest festival . Therese escapes directly from the dance floor, followed by Heinrich. When he assures her that he will do everything to make her happy and that no harm will come from him, he loves her too much for that, the young woman no longer defies her feelings. While there is still a vigorous celebration in the village tavern, a bad storm is falling outside, so that the river in the small village threatens to overflow its banks. The men who have been summoned have their hands full to perhaps avert the danger after all. For Therese and Heinrich it turns out to be very bad because they stayed on a wooden deck that has become independent and is now threatened with abortion. After a certain time the weir can no longer withstand the pressure and the never-ending masses of water and breaks.

The next morning there were a number of deaths to complain about. Both legs of the gentleman who bought the "Gutshof von Eichen" were squeezed off during the successful attempt to hold up the wooden deck with Therese and Heinrich. When he is aware that he has to die, he calls for Therese and reveals himself to her as her father. He is Paul, the man Anna once loved so much. He assures his daughter that he had been looking for her mother all his life and then unfortunately came too late. He never loved any woman other than Anna. Shortly afterwards he dies in Therese's arms.

Some time has passed, Therese is happy with her Heinrich, her painter. Her mother's suffering has not been repeated in her.

Production, publication

The film was made from July 22, 1942 (exterior shots) in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The studio recordings were shot from mid-October to the end of November 1942. It is a Prague Film production . The film was shot in Senftenberg in Moravia .

Walter Zeiske took over the production management, the film structures were created by Bohumil Hes and Johann Zark. Michael Jary's long-time colleague Bruno Balz wrote the lyrics for the music of Georg Sirnker .

Originally, the heroine's father was played by Otomar Korbelář, who was replaced by Richard Häussler after disagreements. The film, shot in Prague, was not shown in Czech cinemas.

The film cost around 1,351,000 Reichsmarks to produce.

Love, Passion, and Suffering were tested on February 18, 1943. The film premiered on April 2, 1943 in the Gloria Palast in Leipzig . The Vienna premiere was on April 13, 1943, the Berlin one on August 13, 1943 in two movie theaters.

criticism

In the chapter on Karin Hardt, the author Klaus Kaiser classified love, passion and suffering among those of her films that were "remembered".

The lexicon of international films could not find anything out of the film and spoke of a "stale colortage story".

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna the maid Illustrierter Filkurier No. 1655 (cover picture: Karin Hardt and Waldemar Leitgeb)
  2. ↑ a b Láska, vášeň a žal at filmer.cz/info (Czech). Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 181 (042.43), Berlin 2001
  4. ↑ Klaus Kaiser: That will not come back - film stars of past years , chapter: Karin Hardt, p. 67
  5. ↑ love, passion and suffering. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used