Decision Night (1956)
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| Original title | Night of decision |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Falk Harnack |
| script | Werner Jörg Lüddecke |
| production | Hans Abich , Rolf Thiele |
| music | Hans Martin Majewski |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Kurt Zeunert |
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Night of Decision is a German film drama from 1955 directed by Falk Harnack with Carl Raddatz , Hilde Krahl and Albert Lieven in the leading roles. Much of the film is an unofficial remake of the 1932 film classic Man without a Name .
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During the Second World War, the Belgian industrialist René Dobersin was drafted and fought on the eastern front on the side of the Germans. There he was taken prisoner of war, which he spent in Siberia under extreme conditions. Ten years after the end of the war, like the last Germans, he was released to his home country as a result of Konrad Adenauer 's trip to the USSR . When he arrives there, he is emaciated from hard forced labor, alienated with the present and no longer recognized by anyone, confronted with new realities. Dobersin has to find out that his wife Claire believed he had fallen in the east and then declared him dead. But it gets worse: Claire Dobersin then remarried and has been called Claire Vernon since she married her second husband Albert. René Dobersin is looking for work in his company and has not been recognized again since he went to war because of his strong visual changes.
One day he reveals the whole truth to his (ex) wife. Claire is shocked and doesn't know how to react to the completely changed situation. Her husband Albert, who skilfully continued to run the company, is not prepared to tolerate the returnees as a rival around them. Because René demands nothing less than the return of his wife and his own company. On the eponymous night of the decision, the viewer learns that both men have stains on their vest: René was not a good husband, and Albert initially entered Dobersin's company with the intention of doing espionage services for the competition. After much deliberation, Claire Dobersin decides to stay with her current husband and let the past be the past. René accepts this decision with a heavy heart, but now he also knows that he has to redesign his future. He gets on a plane and flies into a new life.
Production notes
The Night of the Decision was made with studio recordings in Göttingen and with outdoor recordings in Belgium: The film passed the FSK exam on December 5, 1955 and was premiered on January 19, 1956 in the EM-Theater in Stuttgart.
Co-producer Hans Abich also took over the production management, Gottfried Wegeleben the production management, Walter Haag created the film structures. Dieter Wedekind was a simple cameraman under the direction of Friedl Behn-Grund .
criticism
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Interesting time background for weighty psychological and social problems - unfortunately superficial and sentimentally staged."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Night of Decision. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Night of the decision in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Night of the decision at filmportal.de