It will be night without you
| Movie | |
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| Original title | It will be night without you |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Curd Juergens |
| script | Walter Forster |
| production | Film construction GmbH, Göttingen ( Hans Abich Rolf Thiele ) Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH , Berlin ( Gero Wecker ) |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| cut | Caspar van den Berg |
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Night will come without you is a German film drama by Curd Jürgens from 1956 . Jürgens also took on the leading role of the morphinist Dr. Robert Kessler, who tries to get off the drug with the help of his wife.
action
Dr. Robert Kessler is a successful lawyer. Nobody knows he has been on morphine for years. At a court hearing, the stuttering new lawyer was unable to present his arguments and felt exposed in front of the entire room. When he later developed biliary colic from the tension , his doctor gave him a dose of morphine, which not only cured him, but also corrected his speech problems. Since then, Robert has been taking the poison and needs a new shot every two hours. He knows how he will end up, as the heavily dependent, impoverished and now living in an asylum, Charly Justin, who was once a celebrated racing driver, shows him where addiction can drive you.
One day Robert meets the attractive Gina Bergold. The initial aversion - Gina chooses her lovers primarily for her wealth - soon becomes love. Robert confesses to her that he is addicted to morphine, but she promises to stay by his side. She wants to help him with withdrawal. Both marry after a short time. The honeymoon is not going to Italy , but to Professor Bräuning's mental hospital. Here Robert manages the withdrawal and is released after a few weeks. Bräuning impresses on Gina that from now on she has to take over the role of doctors: she has to monitor Robert so that he does not take morphine, has to withstand his pleading, but also his tricks, lies and accusations, which will help him in the long term Get rid of drug. This is all the more difficult because Robert did not come to the clinic of his own free will, but on her instructions.
Gina remains strong and is supported by Robert in the beginning. He gives her the key to his desk compartment, where he kept a few pulls of morphine. Over time, however, Robert's craving for the drug becomes too strong and he breaks down the desk. Horrified, he realizes that the drawer is empty. More and more often he is now looking for the ampoules that Gina has hidden. He becomes suspicious of his wife, eats little and is unable to work. He can hardly concentrate, loses clients and even has to break off court hearings for small crimes. One day Robert begs Gina with tears and on his knees to reveal the hiding place of the morphine to him, since he could no longer. She takes the ampoules out of hiding and smashes them in front of his eyes. Shortly afterwards, Robert's father, who happened to be nearby, appears in the doorway. At first Gina tries to keep the facade upright, but Robert finally tells his father about his addiction. When the father wants to blame Gina for his son's addiction, Robert explains that only she has saved him from relapse so far. She is worse than the police. Then he rushes out of the house, but tries in vain to get new morphine from his previous suppliers.
When Robert comes home, Charly Justin is waiting for him. The police are looking for him because he is said to have robbed a pharmacy to get morphine. After a while Robert agrees to represent him, as Justin's innocence is obvious. The pharmacy's provisional officer, who was knocked down during the robbery, had regularly supplied Charly with free morphine. Now the entire pharmacy was devastated, although Charly knew exactly where the morphine was. It also turns out that the provisional has high betting debts. It is clear that he fabricated the robbery. In the process, however, Robert can hardly formulate a meaningful sentence due to his withdrawal symptoms. Not only Charly is horrified, but Gina too. During the break, she rushes home and finally brings Robert the last morphine ampoule that was left. Then she returns home resignedly. She realized that she couldn't help Robert. In order to still be able to live with him, she now wants to become a morphinist herself. Robert won the lawsuit and is returning home. He prevents Gina from taking her first injection of morphine and holds her tightly in his arms. Then he calls Professor Bräuning: He will seek treatment again, but this time voluntarily.
production
Without you it will be night under the working title If you go it will be filmed from April 15 to May 15, 1956 in Göttingen , Kassel and Hamburg as well as in the Göttingen studio. The costumes were created by Alfred Bücken , the films were made by Fritz Maurischat and Ernst Schomer . At the same time, producer Hans Abich took over the production management, Gottfried Wegeleben acted as production manager. Jürgen Mohrbutter, Richard Oehlers and Kurt Zeimert were responsible for recording production. Performed Erwin Lehn and his Südfunk Dance Orchestra and the Rediske quintet. Eva Bartok was married to Curd Jürgens at the time of filming. The film had its film premiere on August 17, 1956 in the Hamburg film theater Die Barke .
Night falls without you was discussed as the "film of the week" in the first issue of the youth magazine Bravo . Received the rating of "valuable" without you from the film evaluation office 1956 night .
criticism
On the occasion of the premiere, Der Spiegel described the film as a "drug elegy" and wrote:
“Neither the unemotional images of the duel between morphine and love nor the monotonous rehab cure create a lot of tension, but the director Curd Jürgens managed the stronger moments economically and also left room for the carefully cast marginal characters. Better than Jürgens: Rene Deltgen as a thrown racing cyclist. More memorable than the film's widescreen pictures: the musical leitmotif, a modernly arranged Bach quote cleverly exploited by Hans-Martin Majewski. "
The film-dienst called Without You, the night will be a "sentimental chamber play, not ineptly developed, but without real persuasiveness and credibility."
Web links
- Without you there is night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Without you it will be night at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Abich - producer, publicist . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Film , Lg. 20
- ↑ Movie of the week: Night will be without you! Tragic fate of narcotics / Eva Bartok is fighting for her luck . In: Bravo , No. 1, 1956, pp. 36-37.
- ↑ Without you it will be night at filmportal.de
- ↑ New in Germany: Night will come without you . In: Der Spiegel , No. 36, 1956, p. 38.
- ↑ Night will come without you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .