Man for man (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Man for man |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert A. Stemmle |
| script |
Hans Schmodde Otto Bernhard Wendler R. A. Stemmle |
| production | Eberhard Schmidt (production group leader) for UFA |
| music | Friedrich Schröder |
| camera | Robert Baberske |
| cut | Milo Harbich |
| occupation | |
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Mann für Mann is a German feature film from 1939 with elements of National Socialist propaganda . Directed by Robert A. Stemmle .
action
Private and professional events related to the construction of the Reichsautobahn in the late 1930s are discussed. The caisson workers , including Walter Zügel, Richard Gauter and Hans Riemann, make the greatest effort in these physically demanding activities . They are vigorous, beefy guys who enjoy their work and are better paid than other RAB workers. The young Werner Handrup also wants to join these “whole guys” in the hope that one day with the extra wages he will be able to marry his bride Erika.
The situation with caisson worker Walter is completely different. His wife Else, who feels that she belongs to better circles, is not at all pleased that her husband, after a long period of unemployment, has taken up this job, which she does not consider to be very respectable. She prefers to have fun, but her husband mostly spends not only the entire week in the construction workers camp, but recently also the weekends. But he only does this out of spite, since his wife goes out and has fun without him. Walter suspects another guy is behind it. Soon the marriage is on the brink. His colleagues are trying to reconcile the couple, and Walter's friend Hans is particularly active in this regard. But Else misunderstood his commitment and now believes that Walter is spying on her to find a reason for divorce. After Hans has informed Walter of Else's reaction, Else decides to surprise his wife at home the next weekend.
In the meantime, caisson worker Richard, known by everyone as “Jolly”, has fallen in love with Werner's bride Erika. It comes to a solid argument between the two men, in which Werner is pushed into a showcase by Jolly and gets a badly bleeding cut on the arm. The next day Werner is not only handicapped by this; On top of that, there is also an earthquake, which causes severe damage to the construction site. The caisson gets into a tilted position and large amounts of mud and water seep into the underground construction site. When Jolly rescues Werner, who is exhausted by the open cut, from drowning, the older of the two realizes that he will have to do without Erika. Walter, who was on reconciliation leave with his wife at this point, learned from the radio that all caisson workers had to be at the construction site immediately: an accident had occurred. Man for man everyone stands together, and those buried are freed and rescued. Now Else also begins to have respect for Walter's work.
Production notes
The planning stage for man for man reached back to 1937. The shooting took place from the beginning of September to mid-November 1938 (studio shots) and until February 1939 (outdoor shots, on the Reichsautobahn and in the RAB camp Britzfelde). The production cost amounted to 906,000 RM. That made it a relatively inexpensive film man for man . It premiered on July 21, 1939 in the Free City of Danzig , and on August 3, 1939, the film was also shown in Berlin, at the UFA-Palast am Zoo .
Co-screenwriter Hans Schmodde , who worked on the lyrics in addition to Hans Fritz Beckmann , was once active in building the Reichsautobahn. The Schröder songs performed were called Auf einer Grüne Wiese and Das Schippenlied: And one of them gets a medal ...
The film structures were made by Otto Hunte and Karl Vollbrecht , the assistant director was the later theater director Boleslaw Barlog .
After the war, the performance of man for man in Germany was banned by the Allied military authorities.
Reviews
“The main focus of this adventure film, which cost 0.9 million RM, was less on conditions of a private nature, but more on the natural portrayal of" community life "in a Reichsautobahn camp. Of course there were also pictures of the work to which the technology, not always smoothly - it was about the so-called exciting effects - was subject. This semi-documentary framework made the film more politically explosive. But neither the hardworking work of the director [...] nor the changes that were ordered could help the film. He was more successful at the criticism than at the box office. Incidentally, z. Partly also the delayed premiere and the shorter running time to blame. It was no coincidence that the premiere took place in the Free City of Danzig (July 21, 1939): It was the time when people in Germany and around the world were talking about Hitler's project to build a motorway through the "Polish Corridor". "
In the entry of Robert A. Stemmle's man for man, the film's large lexicon of people called briefly “an advertising film for Hitler's motorway construction.”
See also
Web links
- Man for man in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Man for man at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: Deutsche Tonfilme, 10th year 1939, page 126, Berlin 1999
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 469.