Moselle trip out of lovesickness (film)

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Movie
Original title Moselle trip from lovesickness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1953
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Kurt Hoffmann
script Ilse Lotz-Dupont , based on the novel of the same name by Rudolf G. Binding
production Franz Seitz for Ariston-Film GmbH (Munich-Geiselgasteig)
music Johannes Weissenbach
camera Heinz Schnackertz
cut Elisabeth Neumann-Kleinert
occupation

Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer is a German literary film adaptation by Kurt Hoffmann from 1953. Elisabeth Müller , Will Quadflieg and Oliver Grimm as well as Renate Mannhardt and John van Dreelen play the main roles in this story, which "uses motifs from the novel of the same name by Rudolf G. Binding ”was created under the working title engagement on the Moselle .

action

The Munich art historian Dr. Thomas Arend has just been appointed to the university and actually wanted to go on a trip to the Moselle to study art treasures with his girlfriend Dorette, who is engaged as an opera singer in Bayreuth . However, Dorette cancels the trip at short notice because a Viennese opera agent is interested in her. When the jealous Thomas wants to pick her up the next day, he finds her bed unused in her empty room and drives to the Moselle alone to forget his heartache. Angela Schäfer drove to the Moselle with her five-year-old son Kaspar, to see the places they visited together a few years ago after her husband's accidental death. The young widow otherwise lives completely withdrawn.

During a visit to Trier Cathedral , Kaspar runs away from his mother and gets lost in the city. Thomas, who has just visited the Porta Nigra , takes care of the boy and brings him back to his mother in the hotel. Before Angela can thank him, he has disappeared again.

Dorette, who innocently stayed with a friend and actually got an engagement to Vienna, is initially upset about Thomas' departure, but learns from her friend that he actually wanted to propose to her on the trip. She now wants to make up with him, follows him and ends up in Cochem. Here she meets the Dutch traveling salesman Bernd Zagler, who helps her find Thomas. In the meantime he has arrived in Bernkastel , where he makes the acquaintance of the poet and wine connoisseur Zyprian, the mayor and Moselle wine, who was unable to attend. Angela has also arrived in Bernkastel with Kaspar. The three meet again at the evening wine festival and spend the next few days together. Both admit their affection. Angela, however, suddenly becomes afraid of a new relationship and drives with Kaspar the next morning to her cousin Maria, the owner of the Klaus winery.

Thomas cannot explain her departure and Zyprian does not manage to cheer him up either. When one day Zyprian sees Kaspar sitting in a truck from the Klaus winery, he knows where Thomas should look for Angela. Dorette and Bernd, who has business to do here, have now also landed at the winery. Maria and Angela become friends with Dorette and Bernd hopes that the singer will give up her search for Thomas and meet him instead. But when Thomas appears at the winery in search of Angela, it is Dorette who greets him effusively. Angela turns away from Thomas, disappointed, but tells Dorette that their relationship has ended. Thomas finds it difficult to convince Angela of his love. Only the next day brings clarity: Dorette has left and Kaspar is cheering that there is now nothing between his mother and "Tom", who actually finally find each other.

production

The film was shot from August 21 to October 3, 1953. The Bavaria studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig served as the studio .

Around 80% of the film consists of outdoor shots. The film is considered "the only commercial feature film made in Trier with local motifs" and shows "unique ... historical ... shots" of the Moselle landscape before the river bed was straightened. The film was shot on original locations between Cochem and Trier, including the Porta Nigra and Trier Cathedral . The scenes in the wine bar in Bernkastel were created in the Ratskeller “Zur Steipe” in Trier. A few recordings took place in the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth , where a scene from the opera The Marriage of Figaro can be seen. Some recordings were also made in Lieser Castle . The recordings were in the castle park with Lieser Castle in the background.

Uli Jung points out that the film can still not be considered a classic homeland film . Although the film shows numerous shots of the Moselle valley, there are no classic motifs from the Heimatfilm, such as "the local hero who culminates the problems ..., the typical dichotomy between a depraved big city and a healthy rural idyll ... [and] the socially compensatory elements of the Heimatfilm genre": The The Angelas family was not torn apart by war, but by a car accident, the “trauma of loss of social prestige” does not play a role in the film, and customs and traditions of the Moselle valley are not dealt with superficially, even if the Moselle wine plays a central role in the film.

A trip to the Moselle from lovesickness was the breakthrough for actress Elisabeth Müller , who took on her first leading role here. The film also helped child actor Oliver Grimm to gain nationwide popularity.

The premiere of the film took place on November 13, 1953 in the Tower Palace in Frankfurt am Main . The film was released in the German Democratic Republic on November 13, 1954, and it was also shown in Austria, with the addition of a small heart on a big journey .

The digitized and restored version of the film will run from the end of September 2019 in the Moselle region and nationwide in some selected cinemas.

criticism

In 1953, Columbia promoted the Moselle trip out of lovesickness , which ensures "a happy audience":

“Beauty and harmony in every relationship are his hallmarks ... For this reason, the 'Moselle trip out of lovesickness' belongs to the great love of everyone who sees this unique film, and everyone tells the other not to miss out on such a wonderful film experience ... The 'Moselle trip out of lovesickness' ... is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful German companies of our time. To watch this adorable film seems a matter of course. "

- Columbia advertising brochure, 1953

Reclam's Lexicon of German Films described the Moselle trip out of lovesickness as a "prime example of a romantic-sentimental film idyll of German character". The film would live from its “sensitive camera work, [from] unobtrusive staging and mature performance”. The Lexicon of International Films rated the film as "well-staged comedy entertainment". Other reviews fluctuated between the terms “Heimatfilm-Juwel” and “sentimental love film”. After the Moselle trip out of lovesickness was re-performed in 2001 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the film in the presence of Elisabeth Müller in Trier, the literary film has achieved the status of a “regional cult film”.

Award

The Moselle wine plays a central role in the film. Zyprian, the wine lover and connoisseur, repeatedly praises the delights of drinking wine and Thomas' journey down the Moselle also leads through well-known wine locations, which are represented by different locations such as Wehlener Sundial , Erdener Treppchen or Trittenheimer Altar . The film Moselle trip out of lovesickness was awarded the German Wine Culture Prize in 1954 ; The prize was awarded posthumously to Rudolf G. Binding , who wrote the literary model for the film in 1932 and who died in 1938, as the “overall composition” .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Test number 06922 at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ In film programs, the character is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Peter Arend .
  3. ↑ Moselle trip out of lovesickness . The new film program H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1953, p. 4.
  4. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
  5. ↑ Moselfahrt of loving grief - the magic of a landscape . In: Filmstern . Special edition by Columbia-Filmgesellschaft Inc., Frankfurt am Main 1953, p. 4.
  6. ↑ a b See press release from the University of Trier .
  7. ↑ a b Uli Jung: Moselle trip from lovesickness (1953) . In: Christoph Fuchs, Michael Töteberg (Eds.): Fredy Bockbein meets Mister Dynamit: Films at second glance . Ed. Text + criticism, Munich 2007, p. 150.
  8. ↑ Moselle trip out of lovesickness - Small heart on a long journey . Title page Today's program No. 278
  9. ↑ Moselle trip out of lovesickness . Project page for the film. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  10. ↑ a b Moselfahrt of loving grief " In.. Movie star special edition of the Columbia Film Company Inc., Frankfurt 1953, p. 2
  11. ^ A b Thomas Kramer (Ed.): Reclams Lexikon des Deutschen Films . Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, p. 225.
  12. ^ Klaus Brüne (ed.): Lexicon of international films . Volume 5. Rororo, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2669.
  13. ↑ Moselle trip from lovesickness at filmportal.de
  14. ↑ Jung, p. 152.