After the storm (1948)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | After the storm |
| Country of production |
Austria Switzerland Liechtenstein |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav Ucicky |
| script |
Peter Wyrsch Gustav Ucicky |
| production | Willy Wachtl |
| music | Whale mountain |
| camera |
Konstantin Irmen-Tschet Otto Ritter |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
| occupation | |
and Sigfrit Steiner , Walburga Gmür , Robert Bichler , Ettore Cella , Hans Kaes , Marianne Kober , Jürg Medicus , Theodor Roehmis , Alfred Schlageter , Beatrice Stoll | |
After the storm is a film melodrama from 1948 by Gustav Ucicky in a co-production between companies from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The main roles are played by Marte Harell and Erwin Kalser, who has returned from exile . Maria Schell received her first adult role here. The story was based on Carl Zuckmayer 's draft novel of the same name, which, however, was only published a year later.
action
Immediately after the end of the war in Salzburg, summer 1945. US Major Michael Sinclair confiscated the villa of Baron von Tretini, who had already been harassed by the National Socialists, for himself and his unit. Barbara von Tretini, the baron's daughter, had a time in the Nazi labor camp behind her. The piano virtuoso, who has been in poor health since then, plans to set up an orchestra, because music is her whole life. Major Sinclair, who feels sympathy for the young woman, enables her to relax in Ticino , where Sinclair will follow her. Soon a love develops between the two and they become engaged.
When Barbara's fiancée, believed to be dead, the composer Thomas Esterer, returned from captivity, things suddenly became more complicated. The man is badly marked by war and imprisonment. The music artist has frostbite on his hands and the hope of seeing Barbara again in his heart. His last possession is a piano concerto dedicated to Barbara, which he composed. Torn between the two men, Barbara cannot choose either of the two. Although she takes care of the performance of the concert dedicated to her and plays it on the piano, she leaves the performance before the storm of jubilation can break out. When a thunderstorm is brewing symbolically over the lake, she goes out with the boat with suicidal intent. She will not return after the storm.
Production notes
After the storm , the film was shot in May and June 1948 in the Bellerive film studio (canton Aargau) and in Rosenhof (Zurich) (interior shots) as well as in Ascona, San Salvatore (canton Ticino) and Salzburg (last shots in July / August 1948). The first performance was on November 17, 1948 in Zurich, the Austrian premiere on February 25, 1949 in Vienna. The German premiere took place on October 28, 1949 in the Munich congress hall.
Sigfrit Steiner , who plays a minor role here, also took over the production management. Otto Niedermoser and Robert Furrer created the film structures, Max Haufler was Ucicky's assistant director. Kurt Nachmann wrote the music text . The American major was played by a Canadian with Nicholas Stuart.
Producer Willy Wachtl (born 1899), a native of Tyrol, was the most powerful cinema owner in Switzerland at the time and at the same time president of the Swiss Film Association.
Reviews
Hervé Dumont wrote in The History of Swiss Film : “Ucicky, who is unable to transcend the framework of the plot through consistent poeticization, falls hopelessly into emotional drudgery. After the storm it was a great success, especially in Germany, where the audience shed tears over the dilemma of the aristocratic pianist, who is torn between the beautiful major of the occupation forces and the fiancé who was believed dead ... "
"Moderately filmed Zuckmayer material."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The History of Swiss Film, p. 413
- ^ Hervé Dumont: The history of Swiss film. Feature films 1896–1965. Lausanne 1987, p. 413
- ^ After the storm in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 24, 2018
Web links
- After the storm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- After the storm at filmportal.de
- The way into the water. A Spiegel report