Maresi (film)

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Movie
German title The defendant has the floor
Original title Maresi
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1948
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Hans Thimig
script Peter Francke
Kurt Heuser
production Anton Profes
music Anton Profes
camera Oskar Schnirch
cut Henny Brünsch
occupation

Maresi is an Austrian feature film from 1948 by Hans Thimig with Attila Hörbiger and Maria Schell in their first post-war and adult film role . The template was a novel by Alexander Lernet-Holenia . The film was shown in Germany under the title The accused has the floor .

action

Austria in 1927: The once wealthy manor owner Baron Franz von Huebner is bankrupt. In an act of desperation, one day, for no apparent reason, he shoots the draft horse of a lorry on the street. When put on trial, the baron tells the story of his life over the past twenty years and how it was once closely connected to the slain horse, the broodmare Maresi. Von Huebner was a made man in the fallen Austro-Hungarian monarchy: respected, wealthy and afflicted with the best reputation. With the collapse in 1918, Hübner also went downhill. Heavily indebted, the baron fell into the hands of unscrupulous people, a dealer and soldier of fortune. The court was playful and thus forbade the impoverished man his code of honor, as originally planned, from marrying Countess Blanka von Steinville.

Maresi also fell victim to social decline. Hübner could no longer hold the noble horse and ultimately had to sell it to a haulier. When the baron sees his Maresi again in these miserable surroundings, he simply cannot bear how Maresi is treated badly by the new owner and in an act of grace he shoots the horse. It comes to a tangible scandal. But after the hearing, in which the accused had the floor, as the German award title reminds, the court now understands Huebner's motives and imposes a mild sentence on him. At the happy end, Baron von Hübner and his young countess also find themselves again, because for Blanka, love for her Franz counts more than all class arrogance and all village talk.

Production notes

Maresi was composed between January 30th and June 5th 1948 in Salzburg and Vienna and was premiered on November 5th of the same year in Vienna. In Germany, the film ran as The Defendant has the floor on June 2, 1950 in Kassel.

Producer and composer Anton Profes also took over the production management. Julius von Borsody designed the film structures. Franz Muxeneder , one of the busiest noble batches in Austrian and German film since 1950, made his screen debut here.

criticism

“A melodrama of time layers, overlaps and discrepancies, which also includes an unfulfilled love story, in which Maria Schell can be admired at the beginning of her career. Alexander Lernet-Holenia was significant enough as an author, as well as an intellectual of moral integrity at that time, to mention his collaboration on the work in a WELT-IN-FILM report from the shooting. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Criticism on filmarchiv.at

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