Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love
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| Original title | Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love - sexuality in marriage |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Franz Josef Gottlieb |
| script | Oswalt Kolle |
| production | Arca-Filmproduktion ( Gero Wecker ) |
| music | Johannes Rediske |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
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Oswalt Kolle: The Miracle of Love - Sexuality in Marriage , usually known under the short title The Miracle of Love , is the first and trend-setting of a series of eight German educational films by Oswalt Kolle . The film, a trailblazer for the sex wave , was shot in 1967 and premiered on February 1, 1968 in Hamburg . Kolle had previously emerged as a sex educator through publications in the illustrated magazines Quick and Neue Revue .
action
The film begins with an emphatically serious discussion between Kolle, the sex researcher Hans Giese and the psychologist Wolfgang Hochheimer. This is followed by the first game scenes. Two model cases of sexual difficulties in marriage and their causes are discussed in a cheerful discussion group. A young married couple on the one hand and a couple who have been married for seven years discuss their problems. The words are illustrated by scenes from the game, and short comments are often interspersed, pointing out the consequences of a lack of sexual education.
For newlyweds, the husband's premature orgasm causes his wife grief, as she misses the loving foreplay and aftermath. The second husband, on the other hand, an architect who is now the father of two children, neglects his wife in favor of his profession.
production
The series The Miracle of Love was published in 1967 in the magazine Neue Revue . This series, which was published as a book by Bertelsmann in 1968 , had made Kolle's name known despite constant difficulties with the censors.
The offer to have the series filmed led to constant negotiations with the censorship authorities, including the FSK . The FSK's working committee examined the film in January 1968 in a five-hour meeting. The majority were impressed by the scientific knowledge and kolle's pure intentions. In its test report of January 23, 1968, the working committee found that the FSK was faced with the need to apply different standards to such a film. However, the most precarious images should be removed to make the work wearable.
Whenever the education got too direct, Kolle had to insert long comments trying to explain that it was only science and not pornography. The subtitle Sexuality in Marriage was a concession, and for the same reason the film was shot in black and white rather than color.
The German film composer Martin Böttcher was actually supposed to write the music for the film. He has already written a few music titles, but these were then rejected by the scientific advisor Hans Giese as “not hypothermic enough” and out of fear of indecent acts by the male audience during the film showing. After the film was shown, however, there were reviews that criticized the new music in particular. The music composed by Böttcher was not lost, however. Oswalt Kolle took it as background music for the audio record he recorded, “The Miracle of Love”, Teldec, SLP 14 900-P. The main title Wonderland of Love became a classic on many samplers with the music of Martin Böttcher.
reception
In its press material, the film distributor emphasized that the film wanted to "help countless people by providing information on sexual issues [...] to lead a richer married life and thereby preserve the marriage."
The film caused a sensation when it was released and was discussed. It was less about the content than about the question of whether we are dealing with legitimate education or pornography. Particularly conservative circles and the Catholic Church criticized the film.
In the Netherlands it was exempt from tax and given the title “important for public health”, but in Belgium and some Swiss cantons there was initially a ban. In Switzerland, commuter buses were organized to the neighboring canton, where you could see The Miracle of Love .
The film had around six million viewers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Oswalt Kolle became famous through him, while the actors were ignored.
Reviews
"An in every respect superficial and questionably simplistic" educational film "."
"At a high aesthetic level, necessarily failing due to the incompatibility of scientific and artistic principles in public drama, the film can still not be denied recognition because, like only a few representatives of its genre, it approaches its difficult task with a noticeable seriousness and sense of responsibility."
Awards
- 1968: Golden screen for more than three million viewers
literature
- Jürgen Kniep: “No youth approval!”. Film censorship in West Germany 1949-1990 , Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 2010 ISBN 978-3-8353-0638-7
Web links
- Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love at Filmportal.de
- Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: No youth approval! , P. 230
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Reiner Boller: Winnetou-Melodie , Martin Böttcher - Die Biografie, Verlagallianz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938109-16-8 , page 30
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: No youth approval! , P. 229 based on press releases from Inter-Verleih
- ↑ http://www.insidekino.com/Djahr/DAlltimeDeutsch50.htm
- ↑ Oswalt Kolle: The miracle of love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 74/1968
