Dawn (1954)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Dawn |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Viktor Tourjansky |
| script | Werner P. Zibaso based on a novel by Hubert Miketta |
| production | Ariston-Film GmbH, Munich ( Franz Seitz ) |
| music | Lothar Bruhne |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Margot von Schlieffen |
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Dawn is a German feature film melodrama from 1954 by Viktor Tourjansky, set in an aviation environment . The main roles are played by Hans Stüwe , Elisabeth Müller and Alexander Kerst , who can be seen here in his first film role.
The script is based on Hubert Miketta's novel of the same name.
action
After eight years in a Soviet captivity, the former pilot captain Jochen Freyberg is finally returning home to Germany. Freyberg is a nobleman through and through and even has nothing bad to say about his times in the camps and hospitals of the Soviets. The homeless man initially found accommodation on the Schleswig-Holstein estate of his former commander, Colonel Gaffron. There he falls in love with the neat housekeeper Inge Jensen, without knowing that the much older Gaffron has also had an eye on the good, young woman. Only briefly does a rivalry flare up between the two former relay comrades, then the older of the two nobly renounces Inge and even gives the young people his (fatherly) blessing.
When civil aviation in the still young Federal Republic of Germany is to be put back into operation after a short (flightless) decade, the two fighter pilots of yore are on fire and absolutely want to be there when Lufthansa conquers the skies again with its aircraft. The well-connected Gaffron gives Freyberg a job at Lufthansa. But one day Freyberg threatens his past as a fighter pilot in World War II to doom: A comrade who is said to have shot a British prisoner during the war was sentenced to a long prison term by an English military court. However, it was Captain Freyberg who shot the British opponent in self-defense at the time, and so he surrenders to the authorities in order not to be a “comrade pig”. It comes to a military trial, which ends for Freyberg with an acquittal, because another English pilot testified in his favor. Jochen Freyberg can finally take up his position as a pilot in the civil aviation service and soar into the crack of dawn on a Lufthansa plane.
Production notes
Dawn was created between May 5 and July 1, 1954 on location in Munich ( Munich-Riem Airport ) and the surrounding area, in Prien am Chiemsee and in Hamburg. The studio of Bavaria Film in Munich-Geiselgasteig and the Carlton studio in Tulbeckstrasse served as film studios . Arne Flekstad and Dieter Reinecke created the buildings, Jochen Genzow and Franz Seitz were production managers .
It was premiered on September 2, 1954 at the Hanover World Games . The film ran in Austria in 1955 under the title Between Duty and Love .
The film was conceived as a promotional feature film for the restart of Lufthansa , which went into post-war operations the following year (1955). While the majority was produced in black and white, the later sequences, in which the restart of the Lufthansa age is evoked, are filmed in color.
Arne Flekstad and Dieter Reinecke were responsible for the film construction, Dieter Wedekind assisted chief cameraman Friedl Behn-Grund . Marie-Louise Lehmann designed the costumes.
Reviews
“Before the black and white film up to this point suddenly breaks out in color and the former German fighter pilot floats in the blue sky as a Lufthansa pilot, it has been thoroughly proven in an erratic and curious homecoming story that the old front pigs are still the most decent people are. Even after the war, nothing can prevent them from knightly standing up for one another. Ufa patriotism with a bonus offering that reconciles people, tired by the director Victor Tourjansky, even if artfully mixed up. "
“The premature Lufthansa resurrection film ' Dawn ' would be nothing more than one of the usual half-good, half-bad films of German origin, if its creators did not reveal certain political likes and dislikes. The hero of the strip has nothing to report about his treatment in Soviet captivity except that the Soviets sent him and another wounded comrade from hospital to hospital and did everything they could for him. It may be that now and then someone was treated like that. In view of the hundreds of thousands who starved or frozen to death by the Soviets, or who they liquidated on extermination marches, through mistreatment or withholding existing medicines, the above-mentioned flying experience seems quite atypical. But it becomes conspicuous when, towards the end of the film, a hearing takes place before a British military tribunal in 1953, in which the British officers look extremely embarrassing and unsympathetic. (...) A few years ago, such a scene might have been deserving and the sign of a certain courage. But today one wonders whether the intention here is to make the English blacker than the Soviets. "
“The perils and probation of an air captain after ten years in captivity in Siberia. A rehabilitation drama oozing with generosity, which openly advertises the old and new Lufthansa and comes up after eighty minutes in black and white with a cinematic punchline: The dawn is colored, colorful flags flutter in the wind, and everyone involved is completely happy when they themselves the first aircraft of the new Lufthansa rise into the deep blue sky. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Post-war fates in minor, whose bearers are distinguished by one hundred percent nobility, but otherwise credibly embodied, in the idyllic setting of a Schleswig-Holstein mansion."
literature
- Jürgen Habermas : "Dawn" - tomorrow the horror , criticism, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 2, 1954
Web links
- Dawn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dawn at filmportal.de
- Dawn on filmposter-archiv.de
- Dawn cover Our house program
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 451
- ↑ Dawn , Der Spiegel , No. 39, of September 22, 1954
- ↑ Wrong and Too Late , Die Zeit, September 30, 1954
- ↑ Dawn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Between duty and love (dawn) in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
