Love 47

Movie
Original title	Love 47
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1949
length	110 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Liebeneiner
script	Kurt Joachim Fischer , Wolfgang Liebeneiner
production	Film construction GmbH, Göttingen ( Hans Abich , Rolf Thiele )
music	Hans-Martin Majewski
camera	Franz Weihmayr
cut	Walter von Bonhorst
occupation
Dieter Horn : Jürgen Gehrke Hilde Krahl : Anna Gehrke Sylvia Schwarz : daughter Monika Gehrke Karl John : Mr. Beckmann Erika Müller : Lisa Beckmann Hedwig Wangel : Mother Beckmann Grethe Weiser : Mrs. Puhlmann Luise Franke-Booch : Mrs. Kramer Albert Florath : Entrepreneur Erich Ponto : Old man Hubert von Meyerinck : Director Engelbrecht Paul Hoffmann : Colonel Leonore Esdar : wife of the colonel Gisela Burghardt : daughter of the colonel Herbert Tiede : son-in-law of the colonel Leopold von Ledebur : General Heinz Klevenow : Panzermann Rudolf Kalvius : from Wehrzahn Helmuth Rudolph : Alfred Kurt A. Jung : Peter Erwin Geschonneck : Detective officer Inge Meysel : Betty from Berlin Tilo von Berlepsch : Cousin Fritz Alice Verden : Aunt Eva Kurt Hepperlin : Werner Abrolat : Peter Paul : Otto Sauter-Sarto : Wolf Harro :

Liebe 47 is a German feature film from 1949 based on Wolfgang Borchert's play Draußen vor der Tür (1947). Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner .

action

The film is about a war returnees named Beckmann, who finds out that his wife has turned to another man during the years of his Siberian captivity and that his son is dead. Desperate, he sees only one way out for himself, because he “can't anymore” - but then on the banks of the Elbe he meets Anna Gehrke, a young widow who “doesn't want” anymore, and both tell each other their lives.

background

Borchert's original is counted among the so-called rubble literature, in which the authors tried to deal with the events and consequences of the Second World War. The authors of the rubble literature and the directors of the rubble films dealt in their works with the problems of those returning from war, the famine, the zero hour , the new beginning, poverty, suffering, guilt and atonement, war damage, everyday life in ruins and the trauma of the War. By taking up these issues, the aim was to enlighten the people or to educate the people about democracy.

The film was made in the Göttingen studio with external shots from Hamburg and the surrounding area as well as from Göttingen . Unlike Borchert's play, however, the movie was not a great success.

criticism

“A moving drama based on motifs from Borchert's Outside the Door , which was expanded to include a female figure for the film adaptation. The realistically designed film does not achieve the surreal, religious-mystical dimension of the original, but Liebeneiner made one of the most serious German 'post-war' films. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• 1949: Best actress at the Locarno International Film Festival for Hilde Krahl
• The state of North Rhine-Westphalia rated the film as artistically high .

DVD

The film was published in full on the DVD Shadow of War in the catalog of the CineFest - International Festival of German Film Heritage 2009 and in the edition cinefest by absolut MEDIEN. In 2019 the film was released again on "Filmjuwelen" on DVD and Blu-ray.

Television game

In 1957, the play was produced under its original title by director Rudolf Noelte for television. The main roles were played by Paul Edwin Roth , Malte Jaeger and Eva Kotthaus .

Web links

• Love 47 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Love 47 at filmportal.de
• Love 47 on the Film and History page of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 64
2. ^ Love 47. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .