Maxie (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Maxie |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eduard von Borsody |
| script | Eduard von Borsody Karl Hans Leiter based on an idea by Maria von der Osten-Sacken |
| production | Karl F. Sommer |
| music | Carl de Groof |
| camera | Otto Baecker |
| cut | Paula Dworak |
| occupation | |
and Viktor Braun , Anita Coletta , Wolfgang Hebenstreit , Karl Hruschka , Michael Janisch , Editha Jarno , Josef Krastel , Heli Lichten , Loni von Friedl , Olga von Togni , Herbert Winopal | |
Maxie is an Austrian feature film from 1954 by Eduard von Borsody with Sabine Eggerth in the title role and Willy Fritsch and Cornell Borchers in other leading roles.
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Company director Walter Rhomberg is married to the much younger Nora for the second time. His first marriage was a child whose whereabouts Rhomberg knows nothing, because his first wife and child have been considered missing since the end of the Second World War. Ironically, on the second wedding anniversary with Nora, Walter learns that his war-born daughter is still alive. Little Maxie grew up with loving foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Timm, where she led a poor but happy life. Rhomberg plans to bring Maxie over at all costs. The bright child soon knows how to win over everyone in the house with her cheerfulness, even the odd servant Felix, whom she almost strangles while working at the meat grinder in the kitchen.
Only the second Rhomberg wife, Nora, is piqued because from now on she has to share her husband's attention with the cheeky little one. One day it turns out that Maxie can't be Walter's daughter after all. Nora Rhomberg sees this as a great opportunity for herself and uses the opportunity to ask her husband to put Maxie in boarding school . The girl is deeply shocked and from then on feels rejected. In this mood she runs out of the Rhomberg house and returns to her foster parents. But Maxie's most loyal companion, her little dog, causes a mood change, and Maxie returns to the Rhombergs. Walter's wife has rethought her behavior in the meantime and is now willing to accept Maxie as a new member of the family.
Production notes
Maxie was made in mid-1954 in Vienna-Sievering and Vienna-Kalvarienberg (studio recordings) as well as in Ticino and Paris (exterior recordings). The premiere took place on October 14, 1954 in Braunschweig and Mannheim, the Berlin premiere was on November 15 of the same year. The film was not shown for the first time in producing Austria until January 28, 1955. On January 13, 1963, the film ran for the first time on German television ( ARD ).
Karl F. Sommer was in charge of production. Julius von Borsody created the film structures, Ilse Dubois created the costumes.
Reviews
Der Spiegel wrote: “The annoyingly cheeky orphan girl Maxie, foster child of poor shoemaker's people (Sabine Eggerth), is delivered to the general manager (Willy Fritsch) as his daughter who was lost while fleeing East Prussia. Post-war tragedy, processed into bland confectionery by the dream factory. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Simple film narration about small, mostly cheerfully resolved conflicts."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short review in Der Spiegel from December 15, 1954
- ↑ Maxie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Maxie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maxie at filmportal.de