Mother Krausen's trip to happiness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mother Krausen's trip to happiness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Phil Jutzi |
| script |
Willi Döll , Johannes Fethke |
| music | Paul Dessau |
| camera | Phil Jutzi |
| occupation | |
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Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück is a German silent film from 1929 by director Phil Jutzi . Produced by the Prometheus film production company in the Jofa studios in Berlin-Johannisthal , it is one of the representatives of the so-called “ proletarian film ”.
action
Mother Krause lives in a small, poor apartment with her children Paul and Erna. A crook (the " sleeper boy ") and his bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, live there as sub-tenants , together with their small child. Mother Krause earns some money on the side by delivering the newspaper. When Paul steals 20 marks from her newspaper and drinks it with friends, she is threatened with a complaint because she cannot repay the money to her employer. Erna, who got to know the politically active worker Max, wants to earn her money through prostitution, but at the last moment she shrinks from it.
Paul is persuaded by the sleeper to break into the house, but the two are caught. While Erna and Max join the communists who are moving through Berlin, Mother Krause opens the gas tap in view of her desperate situation and kills herself together with the sleeping little child of the prostitute Peace: “What have you poor beings to lose in this world. Come on, you're going to Jlück with Mother Krause. "
background
The film is based on an idea by the illustrator Heinrich Zille , who is known for his socially critical portrayal of the then Berlin lower class, the " Milljöh ". The setting is the Berlin district of Wedding , the former working-class district. The subtitles are written in the Berlin dialect to give the dialogues an authentic note. The actors are mostly amateur actors. The film, shot in Berlin-Wedding, premiered on December 30, 1929. It was one of the first films that the National Socialists banned after they came to power. All accessible copies were destroyed. In Denmark, where it was banned in April 1931, a shortened copy was kept in the archives of the censorship authority. On January 13, 1957, the film was shown for the first time in this version in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . Based on the script, a comprehensively reconstructed version was created in 2012.
The film served as a template for Fassbinder's mother Küsters' Journey to Heaven from 1975.
criticism
“As befits Zille's style, this film is set in the poorest proletarian milieu, right on the verge of falling into the swamp, depicts the main characters in their petty-bourgeois bias, now unhesitatingly funny, now resigned, and shows them the way out in an organized worker against the class struggle. [...] (Fritz Schiff in: Der Klassenkampf, No. 3, February 1, 1930) "
The censors released the film without editing specifications. The final sequence in which Erna and Max demonstrate with the communists, however, was boycotted by some cinema owners by rewinding this scene faster or underlaying it with the Prussian air fleet march instead of the International .
literature
- Korte, Helmut (Ed.): Film and Reality in the Weimar Republic. Munich, 1978.
- Michael Hanisch: "Mother Krausen's drive to happiness" . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, pp. 208 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5 .
- Murray, Bruce: Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic. From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe. Austin, 1990. * Korte, Helmut: The feature film and the end of the Weimar Republic. An attempt at the history of reception. Göttingen, 1998.
- Isenberg, Noah, ed: Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. NY, 2009.
- Frey, Walter (Hrsg.): The book for the film "Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück". Piel Jutzi's revolutionary film from 1929: History, Analysis and Criticism, Wedding-Bücher, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-946327-21-9 .
See also
Web links
- Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mother Krausen's journey to happiness at filmportal.de
- Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
- Mother Krausen's drive to happiness on arte.tv
- Jan-Christopher Horak: Mother Krause's Trip to Happiness Kino-culture in Weimar Germany, Part 2 , Jump Cut, no.27, July 1982, pp. 55-56
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mother Krausens Reise ins Glück at filmportal.de
- ↑ a b Mother Krausen's Journey to Happiness. Retrieved June 22, 2015 .
- ^ German Feature Films from the Beginnings to 1933 , p. 211
- ↑ Rudolf Freund and Michael Hanisch (eds.): Mother Krausens Fahrt ins Glück. Film protocol and materials . Berlin / GDR 1976 (p. 183, 189)
- ↑ Silent film live: Mother Krausen's ride to happiness. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 17, 2015 ; accessed on June 22, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Mother Küsters' Journey to Heaven. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 25, 2011 ; accessed on June 22, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Korte, Helmut (ed.): Film and Reality in the Weimar Republic. Munich, 1978. pp. 120ff.
