My father, the actor
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My father, the actor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Siodmak |
| script |
Gina Falckenberg Maria Matray Claus Hardt based on a story by Hans Grimm |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Ira Oberberg |
| occupation | |
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My father, the actor is a German movie melodrama from 1956 by Robert Siodmak with OW Fischer , Hilde Krahl and Oliver Grimm in the leading roles as their two sons.
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Christine Behrendt was already a celebrated star in the acting world when she met her younger colleague Wolfgang Ohlsen, promoted and finally married. Both weddings are social and soon their son Michael will be born. A few more mutual successes followed, but then Christine's star began to decline because she seemed too old to the film producers as Ohlsen's love partner. Ohlsen, now with another film partner at his side, becomes the audience's favorite. Christine is full of jealousy and does not trust her beautiful and desired husband on the way. She becomes suspicious, assuming that he will be unfaithful to her at some point. One day she secretly follows him, and her suspicions seem to be confirmed when she catches Wolfgang with another, much younger lady in a presumably precarious situation. She makes a huge scene for her husband and insults him. At the end, she throws out a remark from which Wolfgang must deduce that he may not even be Michael's father. Then Christine speeds off in her car.
Deeply disturbed, Christine loses control of her vehicle on the way home at high speed and causes a serious car accident in which she is killed. A world collapses for Ohlsen. He makes serious accusations that he was responsible for the death of his wife. And then there is Christine's comment about Michal. Can there really be something that Michael is not his own flesh and blood? Ohlsen drowned these doubts, which gnawed at him more and more, in alcohol, the consumption of which soon went beyond measure. Wolfgang Ohlsen's star begins to decline rapidly. He becomes unreliable, begins to babble, is not punctual, forgets his text. As a result, engagements become less and less common, his self-confidence drops and he loses his possessions. He has long since given his child to a home. Wolfgang soon sees only one way out of this misery: suicide. When the actor tries to turn on the gas, it is his little boy who ran away from his home to see Papa, rescued him and showed him how much life is worth and what responsibility the actor has for his son.
Production notes
The shooting of My Father, the Actor began on June 6, 1956 in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau and ended at the beginning of August of the same year. The film ran on September 7, 1956 both in Berlin's marble house and in the Europa-Palast in Düsseldorf.
Hilde Krahl, who is supposed to play Fischer's older wife, was actually two years younger than him. The eight-year-old child star Oliver Grimm , who played Krahl's and Fischer's son, who had achieved early film fame with his son in the previous year , was tailor-made for this role by his real father, Hans Grimm, the author of the story.
Co-author Claus Hardt was also in charge of production. The buildings were designed by Otto Erdmann and executed by Wilhelm Vorwerg . The costumes come from Maria Brauner. Clemens Tütsch set the tone. Heinz Pehlke and Klaus Werner assisted chief cameraman Kurt Hasse .
For the German actress Hermine Sterler , who has been living in exile since 1933 and is now based in Los Angeles , this was her only German film role since 1933; for Peter Capell , another returnees from Germany, again the first German film. The silent film veteran Else Bötticher , who had a tiny appearance here as a cloakroom attendant, made her last film appearance in My Father, the Actor . The former film actresses Gina Falckenberg and Maria Matray made their debut here as screenwriters for German cinema.
Reviews
“The script is as confused as it is seldom - the motifs that have already begun lie around everywhere, unnoticed. The director Robert Siodmak was able to attach some comedy and emotion to the edge and save the children's scenes (with Oliver Grimm) from the worst rogue. But OW Fischer rages uninhibited, so that the simple fellow citizen in the film who thinks the star is probably "gnawed by a squirrel" anticipates any criticism. "
"German family drama with many stirring effects and without a proper ending."
In the lexicon of international films it says: "Although routinely staged, but insubstantial entertainment with all imaginable clichés and poor performance."
Individual evidence
- ↑ My father, the actor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 8, 2015 .
Web links
- My father, the actor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My father, the actor at filmportal.de